Talk:Handkerchief code: Difference between revisions

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: '''Object''' I STRENUOUSLY AND VEHEMENTLY OPPOSE the deletion of the longer color list. I have lived in [[San Francisco, California]] all my life and have been involved in [[BDSM]] since 1973 and I have seen people wearing every single one of the colors on the first 3/4 of the original list over the past 29 years. I have been to every[[Folsom Street Fair]] since the first one in 1984 and people have continued to wear them there. People still wear the colors today on the annual leather march from [[The Castro, San Francisco|The Castro]] to Folsom Street one week before the Folsom Street Fair. As sources, besides the websites, there is also a printed reliable source, the recent 2009 book ''Leatherboy Handbook'' by Vincent L. Andrews Las Vegas:2009 Nazca Plains, Corp., that mentions 41 colors congruent with the list. I deleted colors in the last 1/4 of the original list that had dubious colors (as mentioned by RobinHood) that I have never anyone wearing or seen on the color code cards or in printed sources such as the Vincent L. Andrews book. [[User:Keraunos|Keraunos]] ([[User talk:Keraunos|talk]]) 13:50, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

::The various leather stores in San Francisco today as of 2012 still give out the printed color code cards mentioning the colors on the longer list and their meanings and they still sell all the bandana colors on the longer list. [[User:Keraunos|Keraunos]] ([[User talk:Keraunos|talk]]) 13:55, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

:::Obviously, it is true that the colors are worn much less often today, because a lot of gay people today [[Cruising for sex|cruise]] through the Internet instead of going to bars, so they can just state their preferences on the website rather than wear the colors to a bar. However, the even if it were the case that the bandana colors were no longer used at all, the longer list shouldwould definitely still be preservedworth preserving if only as a historical artifact. However, as I mentioned people still do wear the bandanas today, but less so than in the 1970s. A sentence could be added simply saying that the colors are less used now because a lot of people cruise over the Internet instead of going to bars. [[User:Keraunos|Keraunos]] ([[User talk:Keraunos|talk]]) 13:55, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

I agree that the extended list should be restored. The code is used by multiple members of the community in Portland ME ~ including some of the ones on the secondary list (I rock a lavender one from time to time). They are usually worn out to the clubs/bars and are most often worn by members of the lesbian/queer community, so the idea that they are primarily used by cruising gay men is an anachronism. My two cents - restore the code![[User:Punkrockgrrl|Punkrockgrrl]] ([[User talk:Punkrockgrrl|talk]]) 15:46, 28 March 2012 (UTC)