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QUEERG THE EARRG: PIERCGS ARE GAY
A 1991 article om the New York Tim claimed that gay men uld be intified by their earrgs, statg that they “often [wore] a sgle piece of jewelry the right ear to dite sexual preference. If you are a fashn enthiast, you have likely noticed an tertg trend – the populary of men’s earrgs, pecially danglg their turbulent history, due to associatns wh homosexual men and guys gangs who showed their affiliatn through wearg danglg earrgs, they have now been embraced popular culture by most the danglg earrgs risg populary are cross earrgs, which may make you wonr whether they have any special meangs attached to will lve to that this article, and answer any qutns you may have on men’s earrgs cross-earrg trendTo check out the roots of this trend, we have the pop star Gee Michael to thank for the risks he took men’s fashn the 1980s, although men had been wearg danglg earrgs for much longer than his 1987 album “Fah”, he wore a ccifix drop earrg on his left ear, and Rob Lowe also sported a ccifix earrg on his right ear for his role the 1985 film “St. Elmo’s Fire” the 1980s though, the mon notn of a “gay ear” do not exist, so men wear earrgs on both ears okay for guys to wear cross earrgs?
Although there was a mon assumptn that only rebels or gay men wore cross earrgs or earrgs general, the notn do not exist anymore as societal norms have famo men wear the earrgs on the red rpet or special ocsns, as well as wearg them as sual wear – so there is no reason to refe to do so fashn stylists the celebry world agree wh this and see the growg acceptance of men’s earrgs, cludg cross on, as part of a broar change men’s fashn – also part of the “soft masculy” movement enurag men to experiment wh their looks and bee more fortable their is also not surprisg that the cross-earrg look has grown promence as platforms such as Instagram have grown their dienc bee the put the foc of a picture on the more attractive you look a photo, even wh jewelry, the more your social media post is shared and liked by others, which enurag this trend to cross earrgs offensive?