When Hal Fischer Decoded Gay America

Before dating apps reduced cruising to geolocated data, attitude and dress code spoke volumes. Seminal Works (Aperture) revives this visual grammar and the gay San Francisco of the 1970s.

The epiphany struck at two in the morning. Hal Fischer was reading Jack Burnham on Claude Lévi-Strauss's theory of signs in The Structure of Art when the connection clicked. "Bandanas, keys!" The Castro dress code, with its colored fabrics hanging fr...

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