What does a Light Pink hanky mean?
Small Toys. Left pocket: Small Toy User. Right pocket: Small Toy Receiver.


Small Toys. Left pocket: Small Toy User. Right pocket: Small Toy Receiver.


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Where it comes from. Documented in Larry Townsend’s The Leatherman’s Handbook II (1983) and the Bob Damron charts (1980). Worn in San Francisco leather bars from 1972.
Documented from 1980 in the extended bar charts, light pink in the left pocket told the room you were small toy user; in the right, small toy receiver. Recorded in the Damron charts of 1980 and Townsend’s Leatherman’s Handbook II in 1983. This colour belongs to the community that made it; the print is our specification of it.
Timeline stage: 1973 · Standardised across US cities. Read the full history →
The code was read across a room, so what sits next to a colour matters. Nearest by eye, from the Pinks & magentas family and beyond.
Soft FemmeSOFT PINK · SOFT / SOFT FEMME FAN
QuestioningPASTEL RAINBOW · QUESTIONING TOP / QUESTIONING SUB
Genderqueer / GNCLILAC · GENDERQUEER / GNC ADMIRER
Healer / SupportHEALING PINK · COMMUNITY HEALER / HEALING SEEKERIn the same cluster: The record.
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