The Gay Beards, popular on both Instagram and YouTube, talk to NBC OUT about the bety of iendship and why they've been "practilly separable" for nearly 20 years.
Contents:
- DYNAMIC DUO: 20 QUTNS WH THE GAY BEARDS
- HOW TO GROW AND TAKE CARE OF A BEARD: TIPS FOR GAY MEN
- JAM BEARD: THE CLOSETED GAY LIFE OF THE MAN BEHD THE AWARD
- 'THE GAY BEARDS' DEMYSTIFY THEIR ENDURG FRIENDSHIP
- GAY BEARD
- THE GAY BEARDS: GLTER MOTACH AND FLOWER BEARDS STRAIGHT OUT OF PORTLAND, OREGON
- JAM BEARD AND THE JOYS AND PAS OF GAY INTY
DYNAMIC DUO: 20 QUTNS WH THE GAY BEARDS
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Brian Delrenti and Johnathan Dahl, llectively known as The Gay Beards, are more than jt two attractive bt iends wh imprsive facial hair.
Pret-a-Reporter ught up wh The Gay Beards for a quick game of 20 qutns, where Delrenti and Dahl dish on everythg om bt groomg practic to the one thg they’d never attempt to put their beards. The Gay Beards: The year was 1998 and we met through a mutual iend one eveng after school.
HOW TO GROW AND TAKE CARE OF A BEARD: TIPS FOR GAY MEN
Why “The Gay Beards” for your name?
B: Our aim was not to promote the fact that we are gay, bee all realy, that do not fe by any means. If you’re a gay man who lik to grow a beard, you need to know how to take re of and style the bt way possible. What is a beard, and why are gay men mad wh beards?
Beards are slowly gag populary the gay muny.
JAM BEARD: THE CLOSETED GAY LIFE OF THE MAN BEHD THE AWARD
For a long time, a clean-shaven ch and youthful look were the stereotypil imag of gay men. Today, gay men are liberal wh facial hair styl, g beards to create favorable imprsns. A mon misnceptn among gay men who wish to change their facial appearance is that smetic surgery is the only optn.
Gay men wh thicker facial hair make better longer-term partners. What typ of beards are there for gay men?
Whether you are gay or straight, a beard enhanc your facial featur, improvg your overall attractivens by drawg attentn to your face.
'THE GAY BEARDS' DEMYSTIFY THEIR ENDURG FRIENDSHIP
In 1938, he met and moved wh Jam Barlow Cullum Jr., a gay divorcé who me om iron and steel money and had a large apartment on Washgton Place. “For affluent gay men New York Cy” at the time, “private cktail gathergs — apartment parti — were their primary pots of ntact.
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As such, was also “a kd of secret rerd of 20th century gay migratn to ci om across the untry” that was both celebratory and had an unrlyg sadns, Birdsall wr. They ll themselv The Gay Beards, but behd all that quirkily groomed facial hair is nearly 20 years of iendship -- and so much Delrenti and Johnathan Dahl, better known as The Gay Beards, have been bt iends ever sce they met at the age of 8.
The quali have led to bee the goofy beard men we are today, ” Delrenti openly gay duo certaly don’t take their iendship for granted and regnize each other’s support was ccial their self-realizatns. "Delrenti and Dahl nsir themselv brothers, a closens that sh through The Gay Beards acunt.
Photo © The Gay Beards.
THE GAY BEARDS: GLTER MOTACH AND FLOWER BEARDS STRAIGHT OUT OF PORTLAND, OREGON
The Gay Beards: Glter Motach and Flower Beards Straight out of Portland, Oregon. When Brian Delrenti and Johnathan Dahl, aka The Gay Beards, first posted a photo of themselv wh both of their beards rated wh flowers, they had no ia that they were actually on the brk of a wildly succsful creative enavour. “The ia behd The Gay Beards formed naturally, ” they said.
JAM BEARD AND THE JOYS AND PAS OF GAY INTY
“Flower beards were already kd of a thg when we started The Gay Beards but glter beards was an origal ia to .
Birdsall and I discsed one of Beard’s many inti: his ght life as a gay man, a theme the book that Birdsall exam wh a jeweler’s exactg and lovg gaze. The terview was eded for clary and Lucky Peach article, “Ameri, Your Food Is So Gay, ” published 2013, set the stage for your reflectns on Jam Beard (and won a Beard award — meta).
Related to the Lucky Peach piece was a nostalgia for my gay “uncl, ” Pat and Lou. And wrg “Ameri, Your Food Is So Gay, ” was really the first time that I unrked the bottle and let myself feel all of .