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Contents:

• OP-ED: THE GAY CLON EVERYONE KNOWS
• CLONG FASHN: UNIFORM GAY IMAG MALE APPAREL
• TOM OF FLAND’S HYPERMASCULE GAY IMAG ‘THE PLEASURE OF PLAY’
• ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
• GAY HISTORY: AFTER STONEWALL CLON, CLOSETS AND COS
• GAY HISTORY: REMAKG THE CASTRO CLONE
• POLIL-ENOMIC NSTCTN OF GAY MALE CLONE INTY
• GAY HISTORY: SEND THE CLON
• GAY HISTORY: WHEN DID WE TURN ON THE MOTACHE?
• TOM OF FLAND’S HYPERMASCULE GAY IMAG ‘THE PLEASURE OF PLAY’

OP-ED: THE GAY CLON EVERYONE KNOWS

But when one particular look cropped up the post-Stonewall gay scene of the 1970s, was so popular—and so distct—that the guys who sported were dismissed as “clon.

)And while the nickname was ially pejorative, the clone perd marked perhaps the first time that gay men prented themselv wh a queer-signalg uniform that was a direct rponse to societal stereotyp.

CLONG FASHN: UNIFORM GAY IMAG MALE APPAREL

“The clone was a reactn to thgs you would see movi of gay men beg flty and nelly, ” says John Calendo, a wrer who lived LA and New York Cy throughout the 70s and 80s, and worked as an edor at the clone-cubatg sk mags Blueboy and In Touch for Men. He pots to the gay mstrel stereotyp the 1967 film The Producers, along wh the timid-lookg guys on the illtrated vers of gay pulp books wh nam like All the Sad Young Men. (Not to mentn the 1964 article Life magaze lled “Homosexualy Ameri, ” which scribed a “sad and often sordid world.

TOM OF FLAND’S HYPERMASCULE GAY IMAG ‘THE PLEASURE OF PLAY’

”) “That’s the kd of imagery”—backwards stereotyp that basilly villaized queer people—“that a lot of my generatn who beme the clone people grew up wh the ccible of the 60s, ” Calendo ntu, when the civil rights and gay liberatn movements were expandg ias of equaly and eedom.

Drsg like a clone, he says, was a rejectn of those olr gay ’s not so easy to ppot precisely who origated the clone ial, guys who were alive at the time ually brg up Al Parker, an adult film star turned producer and director who worked om the 70s to the early 90s. (Parker would eventually bee an advote for gay rights and safe sex, producg only safe-sex films before he passed away om plitns due to AIDS 1992.

ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI

It was like, Oh that’s somethg wh a ltle work I uld atta, and I thk that’s why beme so quickly absorbed to the gay muny.

GAY HISTORY: AFTER STONEWALL CLON, CLOSETS AND COS

“When I thk back on havg lived through the time, was like gay guys were pg om this stereotype that was jt culted to the culture of sissi and faggots, ” says Woodff. “The clone look was certaly about a whe gay man’s rponse and engagement wh those archetyp, ” says Ben Barry, the an of the school of fashn at the New School’s Parsons School of Dign, whose rearch foc on fashn’s relatnship to masculy, sexualy, and the body. ”)Prentg as mascule public was physilly safer for gay guys, but the clone stume pulled double duty, Barry says, tweakg tradnal masculy while also signalg to other queer folks.

“There’s this munal thg happeng right now where people are more open that they’re trans and non-bary or bisexual and not jt on the spectm of beg straight, gay, male, female. ) And while the nickname was ially pejorative, the clone perd marked perhaps the first time that gay men prented themselv wh a queer-signalg uniform that was a direct rponse to societal stereotyp.

GAY HISTORY: REMAKG THE CASTRO CLONE

Hey--while I'm not gay, I fd this perd tertg:Like any other thg, facial hair has 's trends.

POLIL-ENOMIC NSTCTN OF GAY MALE CLONE INTY

Many '70s porn stars, such as Ron Jeremy and others also wore the late '70s, many gay men cid to drs like blue llar straight men and th the ''clone'' look me to the fore.

It's not necarily a gay thg, after all, there are women who have beards and siburns:DI always wonred why guys had mutton chops, or those texas motach that curled out on the sis. The 70s, the two most popular forms of facial hair a man uld have were eher a mtache, siburns, or, and had nothg to do wh beg gay. Yeah, I didn't mean that had anythg to do wh beg gay--siburns and stach were '''' the 70s.

GAY HISTORY: SEND THE CLON

However, due to the whole clone look which appeared toward the end of the , stach me to be unfortunately associated wh gays. ::)and I thought Ned Flanrs was gay but he has a wife and 2 children so my assumptn was wrong.

GAY HISTORY: WHEN DID WE TURN ON THE MOTACHE?

I've certaly read about Ana Bryant's pie to the face and Barney Frank's youthful(ish) discretns, but what really gets me to a time warp k-hole are the now-disntued personals and advertisements for bars, clubs, and "spas"; you get to see how gay men really prented themselv and what the often-warped standard of bety the issue is om the '60s, the featured guys are smooth, mcled, and whe (diversy wasn't our strong su back then). )There is certaly a clone "look" that still permeat gay male culture; specific styl that intify someone as a rd-rryg homosexual, whether that's the tentn or not.

TOM OF FLAND’S HYPERMASCULE GAY IMAG ‘THE PLEASURE OF PLAY’

Sce I haven't been to a gay bar six months (too much effort), I cid to pese -- our sister se and arber of gayville -- to see what the predomant gay look is the attentn was pulled strongly and swiftly toward "The 30 Sexit Gay Sex Scen Film" (unlike fashn, men never change). One of my favore movi of all time, 2011's Weekend, almost tops the list (sorry) and that movie not only ptured the morn gay male experience a te, betiful, and searg way, also got the "look" jt right. Ma characters Rsell and Glen are thoughtful and distctive, but physilly they're clon; their refully librated scff and poma-assisted hair is at every gay dive bar om Edburgh to Williamsburg.