Bleached blon hair has bee a signifier — or at least a meme — for poor mental health the gay muny. Was I havg an existential crisis?View Entire Post ›
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- I’M BLEACHG MY HAIR BLON AND Y, I MIGHT BE HAVG A GAY CRISIS
- WHY GAY MEN DYE THEIR HAIR PLATUM BLON?
I’M BLEACHG MY HAIR BLON AND Y, I MIGHT BE HAVG A GAY CRISIS
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“If a gay guy bleach his hair... ”Among the gay muny recent years, bleached blon hair has bee a signifier — or at least a meme — for poor mental health.
To be clear, heterosexual men have also been known to seek happs at the bottom of a bottle of hair dye, but ’s gays who have embraced as a wily unrstood cultural marker for a spike guys gog blon or gray, which appeared to have been supercharged by Msa’s smolrg red rpet appearance, there have been a bunch of viral tweets about blon gays crisis. “When a gay man bleach his hair, ’s a sign he’s gog through a crisis, ” culture wrer Joseph Longo wrote Mel Magaze durg a personal spiral he experienced the first panmic lockdown of 2020. ”“It’s a right of passage for queer people, specifilly naive whe gays like myself, to reach for the peroxi bottle when facg a mor nvenience, ” Longo said.
OK McCsland for BuzzFeed NewsAs a termally onle gay man, I knew all this.
WHY GAY MEN DYE THEIR HAIR PLATUM BLON?
I knew that dyeg my hair would be broadstg a msage to others — the gay equivalent of an anx dog wearg one of those “Please give me space” vts. It’s as if I were powerls, stuck on a nveyor belt the Gay Cliché realizatn felt somewhat alarmg to me.