The tash is enjoyg a renaissance among pop stars, movie actors and the wir public after s of beg irretrievably associated wh ary spots or the gay culture of the 1970s and 1980s
Contents:
- GAY HISTORY: WHEN DID WE TURN ON THE MOTACHE?
- #TBT: THE GAY MTACHE
- LA MOTACHE UN POIL TABOUE EN FRANCE, PAS CHEZ L GAYS ANGLAIS
GAY HISTORY: WHEN DID WE TURN ON THE MOTACHE?
Meet the facial-hair style takg over every gay bar the cy. * moustache gay *
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.
#TBT: THE GAY 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.
LA MOTACHE UN POIL TABOUE EN FRANCE, PAS CHEZ L GAYS ANGLAIS
“It really do somethg for people that fs to the bill of our ’80s gay male porn fantasy. ” Trends the gay muny, he says, aren’t that different om the straight world.
“Back the seventi, the mtache was an inic gay symbol; that’s how you uld intify gay men, ” says John. “But today, anyone n have a mtache—though that’s probably the one thg you won’t see on gay guys anymore, at least New York.