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In my school you were gay if your index finger was shorter than your ring finger, or if your wore one earring.
I remember kids in the '60s making a big deal that our milk cartons said "homo" on them.
I had the earring thing in mine too, but it had to be the right ear to be gay. Left ear was fine.
I've heard of that and always assumed it was part of some club/bar culture. A shorthand way of signaling to potential hookups who you were looking for. Never paid it much attention in my day to day life though.
Also, I assumed two earrings meant you were bi.
“left is right, right is wrong”
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
This is a holdover of gay hookup codes.
Basically every generation of queer folk back when being queer meant a legitimate threat to life (imprisonment, castration, torture or violence) or through precarity (being disowned, losing one's job or benefits) queer folk lived like spies and used codes to quietly signal their status to others. There are some that have been easily lost to history but some would either be decoded and then become too dangerous to use openly... Or the straights would think it's neat and adopt the fashion without realizing what it actually was being used for likewise making it too dangerous to openly use. So there's these layers of abandoned code.
Modern codes are more complex and not as covert as folk have realized that a lot of straights wouldn't know queer code if it came up and performed a drag routine on their nose. Like Pride events people wear flag colors that tell you what their deal is but straight folk only really tend to recognize maybe a handful. Others are less obvious, there's a club color code of bandana that is very specific to kink and sexual orientation depending on what color and how you wear it.
And then when they hold up their hand to check, you slap it into their face.
What about if your palm was bigger than your face?
That means you have cancer. Go ahead, test it out!