Gays Shouldn’t Wear Loggers | BHD's Mgs

Contents:

• GAYS SHOULDN’T WEAR LOGGERS
• GAY HUNTER FDS PATH AND POWER SELF-ACCEPTANCE
• CAMOUFLAGE MEN: GAY MILARY
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

GAYS SHOULDN’T WEAR LOGGERS

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. “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. ”) “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.

GAY HUNTER FDS PATH AND POWER SELF-ACCEPTANCE

(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.

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.

“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.

CAMOUFLAGE MEN: GAY MILARY

“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. Over 1, 000 gay Jews and bagel-chasers me out to celebrate the third night of Hankah at Hebro's annual Christmas Eve Jewbilee. It is thought that the wearg of bandanas by gay men origated  San Francis after the Gold Rh, when, bee of a shortage of women, men dancg wh each other  square danc veloped a where the man wearg the blue bandana took the male part the square dance, and the man wearg the red bandana took the female part (the bandanas were ually worn around the arm or hangg om the belt or the back pocket of one’s jeans).

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

This is where I heard a classic piece of bullsh fly out of my mouth on why all the gay men around were wearg mo rgo shorts. It was bee they knew that gay men should never wear fanny packs but, need extra pockets for their water bottl and ty bags of K.

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Livg liv which are often agmented between nventnal work ndns and their private liv leav many gay men whout the tradnal support mechanisms of heterosexuals and this shows through the separated by geography, culture and age, the men the imag all share fears for the future, lonels, job secury, and separatn.

Md you, I was jt standg there my jeans and boots, mdg my own bs when this guy blurts out, “gays shouldn’t wear loggers. I cid to ignore him, but then he turned to a uple of his buddi le behd him, and said an even lour voice, “GAYS SHOULDN’T WEAR LOGGERS!

I have nothg else to “give away” that I’m gay — no HRC equal sign bumper sticker or rabow flag l the wdow of the r, and I didn’t even flail my hands wh limp wrists.

My voice isn’t … well, let’s suffice to say that I do not outwardly display stereotypil characteristics of gay men, nor advertise the same on any of the vehicl that I drive.

In the high school football and basketball locker room and on the baseball field the words “gay” and “faggot” were ed as sults to the opposg teams. A world that tells how we should look and act certa plac if we want to belong — whether we are straight or gay, Christian or Mlim, Black or Hispanic. The sgle most important reason I am happy to be gay is bee has challenged me to look at people and see only someone who is servg of passn and kdns, even though the world may tell me to see somethg else.