SIGNS OF THE TIMES. THE MOST HISTORIC DOCUMENT. HAL FISCHER'S SEMINAL SUPERBOOK GAY SEMIOTICS IN THE ORIGINAL 1977 FIRST EDITION. EVEN THE LATER REPRINT IS RARE AND VALUABLE. WELL, THIS IS POSITIVELY MUSEUMABLE. THE MOST HAVE TO HAVE BOOK IN THE IDEA WORLD.

Always did love the cover. From Joy Division (Pleasures and Terrors) through to Derek Ridgers (The Others) we have been obsessed with that grey colourway. For a book of types, that is a masterwork of type design. 
 

How does it mean? Blue - passive. Red - deviant. The left and right of it. 
 

This being what Hal Fischer was working to dress and express...
 

... and codify. This bearded athlete is a Street Fashion Jock. Fischer also codes Street Fashion Basic Gay, Street Fashion Forties Funk, Street Fashion Hippie. The book is so brilliant it is beyond writing about now. 
 

Some people, of course, you'd never guess they were gay. Probably the shoulder clipped cock ring that gives this Street Fashion Leather type away :)
 

Keys. Mild Mannered Janitors we are labelling them. MMJ were also a band named after Hong Kong Phooey (but you knew that). 
 

Enough of us writing captions... see how Fischer does it in the photo below. 
 

Yep. Much better than us. 
 

The back cover lover. Signifiers for a male response. And signifiers for a major historicallly important book purchase. One copy. One love. It is to be found on the button below. It's go.