Each sign is depicted in a separate photograph and features a humorously dry description of its meaning.
Once only available as a portfolio of 24 images, Hal Fischer's seminal series of photographs, Gay Semiotics: A Photographic Study of Visual Coding Among Homosexual Men (1977, reprinted 2017) is now available as singular images in a larger format exclusively through Project Native Informant.įischer’s investigation of masculinity and sexuality investigated archetypes, street fashion and “signifiers of accessibility,” such as keys or handkerchiefs, used by gay men in the 1970s to signal sexual preferences.
