erika-mann:general-sleepy:So, me and my sister were watching “Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Yo
erika-mann:general-sleepy:So, me and my sister were watching “Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart,” you know, the “no one dips like Ramon” and hot dog scene episode, and we noticed that in his disguise, Hutch has a handkerchief in his pocket. And we thought to ourselves, 70s, hanky code, no, it couldn’t be.So we looked it up. We knew left is top. And it’s sort of a medium blue. Guess what that means? I’m not making this up: cop.My god.“ "The whole series and my subsequent work in that period, was about me, and my place in time, and the community I was in,“ explains Fischer. Photographed, written and exhibited over the course of a few months, Gay Semiotics depicts what Fischer calls, “the ambiguity, the way of being able to code things and communicate, and not have it be misunderstood.”Fischer came to his current hometown, San Francisco, in 1975 to pursue a master’s degree in photography, where he slipped into the burgeoning art scene. “ [x]Now i’m not saying that like, spelling-goldberg were necessarily going for this but what i am saying is: if anyone is going to know what clothes and signals gay people used in 1970s california in order to identify themselves as such, its going to be a 1970s californian costume designer. -- source link