Join The History Project and Mass Bears and Cubs for a Hanky Code Bear Tea! Dancing starts at 5PM, and there is no cover!

The History Project will be on-site sharing information about the hanky code and will have hankies for sale!

According to historian J. Raúl Cornier:

The hanky code was a covert sartorial code used predominately by queer men in the 1970s and into the 1980s. Simply put, a bandana is worn in one’s back pocket for the purposes of sexual signaling. The color of the bandana was associated with a specific sexual practice or fetish, and the wearer’s sexual role was indicated by which back pocket the bandana resided in (tops wore bandanas in their left pocket; bottoms wore bandanas in their right pocket). 

Click here to learn more about the history of the hanky code!