Gay History: When Did We Turn on the Motache? | timalrman

Contents:

• GAY HISTORY: WHEN DID WE TURN ON THE MOTACHE?
• #TBT: THE GAY MTACHE
• GAY MTACHE VECTORS
• GAY MEN, QUEER WOMEN, AND THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE MTACHE

GAY HISTORY: WHEN DID WE TURN ON THE MOTACHE?

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#TBT: THE GAY MTACHE

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GAY MTACHE VECTORS

We all have the mtache right now, ” said Jt about his new facial hair outsi an East Village gay bar.

GAY MEN, QUEER WOMEN, AND THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE MTACHE

From a queer perspective, the mtache’s associatn wh sexual viancy also pots to the “Castro clon” of the ’80s: mascule gay men who drsed alike, slept together, and were eventually undone and vilified by society durg the AIDS crisis. If this mtache had s own mood board, might clu Freddie Mercury, a few shots of the Castro s heyday, and a vtage gay-porn image. “It really do somethg for people that fs to the bill of our ’80s gay male porn fantasy.

But he argu that Magnum also reprented a mastream, TV-iendly offshoot of a popular gay look of the era: “The so-lled ‘clone, ’ wh his obligatory mtache, bomber jacket, beefed-up shoulrs and mcular butt unr tight jeans. This Freddie Mercury-que “clone” look had evolved turn, wr Peterk, om the subculture of “leathermen” the gay clubs of the 1970s, whose “sadomasochistic practis and role-playg flourished and beme a new homoerotic norm. ” and “Go Wt” featured both a leatherman and a mtached wboy, helpg to make Middle Ameri aware of the mtache’s proment stat gay culture.