“At bars, they say, they wait longer for drinks and are subjected to dress codes that ban athletic gear, Timberland boots and hooded sweatshirts, rules they say are meant to exclude them.”
So...timberland boots are queer-gear? Good to know.
There’s all sorts of signaling among homos.
Earring in left ear means you are an anal penetrator.
Earring in right ear means you are a penetratee.
When I was a kid the fad was to bleach your Levis’s with splotches. However, it turns out splotches on the left side vs. the right side had meaning to homos, just like the earring thing, above. We learned quick not to do anything to attract homos.
I went to a Museum of Modern Art exhibit that detailed the subtleties of the handkerchief that homos displayed hanging out of their back pockets. Again, the side mattered but also the various colors too. It telegraphed the type of person the homo wanted to have sex with.
Ugh. I was so innocent to evil back then.