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GAY HISTORY: WHEN DID WE TURN ON THE MOTACHE?

Meet the facial-hair style takg over every gay bar the cy. * gay moustaches *

The Gay Mtache. Gay men practilly owned the mtache the '70s, and now 's bee a symbol of men's health issu celebrated every year durg Movember.

In honor of our hairy history, we prent the big gay mtach of our past. Forster whheld publitn of his groundbreakg gay romance novel Mrice until after his ath. Meet the facial-hair style takg over every gay bar the cy.

The skny ’stache n be seen at gay bars across the cy — om more normative bars playg Drag Race on Thursday nights to famo queer clubs Bhwick and sticky sex bars the Village. We all have the mtache right now, ” said Jt about his new facial hair outsi an East Village gay bar.

THE GAY BEARDS: GLTER MOTACH AND FLOWER BEARDS STRAIGHT OUT OF PORTLAND, OREGON

What’s a guy to do when he’s grown a thick, nse beard? Why, rate wh glter, flowers, and ndy, of urse! At least, that seems to be the obv answer for two such full-beard men…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 * gay moustaches *

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. Bis, gay men practilly owned the mtache the '70s.

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

In honor of a new book on the 'stache, here are 31 gay or bi folks who rock facial hair. * gay moustaches *

So honor of our hairy history and of men's health we prent the big gay mtach of our past. Bno was most betifully shot by Colt Studs.See more lip dters on famo gay guys on the followg pag >>> Adorable Armistead Mp was the Charl Dickens of San Francis the '70s wh his avidly followed daily serial the San Francis Chronicle, "Tal of the Cy." The characters were so well loved that the newspaper lumn spawned a book seri that ntued for many volum and many TV adaptatns. 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.

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Gay/Bi Men and Mtach, a History Photos .

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