Flagging
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Flagging is the wearing of specific clothing, insignia, or accessories such as coloured handkershiefs or bunches of keys, or wearing them in a specific manner or position, as a signal to indicate interest in specific sexual or BDSM activity.
Key code
Key code was a 1960s to 1980s era way of flagging your psychological persuasion. If you were a dominant, you wore belt keys on your left; otherwise, they were on the right. All good leather queens of the 1960s and 1970s wore their keys in that way.