Mass. Bears and Cubs joined The History Project at this month’s Bear Tea, held at Club Café, for a hanky-code–themed event, combining a little history lesson with some sociable fun. 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.” More: massbearsandcubs.com; historyproject.org
