The Gay Beards, popular on both Instagram and YouTube, talk to NBC OUT about the bety of iendship and why they've been "practilly separable" for nearly 20 years.
Contents:
- BEAR NECSI: AN SIR’S LOOK AT AN ATYPIL GAY CULTURE AND MUNY
- HOW TO GROW AND TAKE CARE OF A BEARD: TIPS FOR GAY MEN
- 'THE GAY BEARDS' DEMYSTIFY THEIR ENDURG FRIENDSHIP
- THE GAY BEARDS: GLTER MOTACH AND FLOWER BEARDS STRAIGHT OUT OF PORTLAND, OREGON
BEAR NECSI: AN SIR’S LOOK AT AN ATYPIL GAY CULTURE AND MUNY
* beards in the gay community *
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“It was really such ntrast to the stereotype of gay men, ” said Ron Surha, thor of “Bear on Bears” and another foundg member ― if one uld ll that ― of bear culture. ” San Francis wasn’t the only cy where gay men were explorg this new kd of masculy. There was no work of gay men that he knew, so when he first h the scene, the only plac he knew to go were n-of-the-l gay dance bars, where he was hassled for his weight.
HOW TO GROW AND TAKE CARE OF A BEARD: TIPS FOR GAY MEN
” As bears me to their own San Francis and Chigo the late ‘80s, the HIV/AIDS crisis further galvanized—and ravaged—the muny, jt as had the gay muny as a whole. And when the ter beme more wily available, dramatilly changed the spread of gay culture.
Addnally, bears tend to be urban or gay urban-intified. “There are plenty of bears who are actual blue-llar gay men as well as ral gay men, who see bears as a way of intifyg that is not middle class, i.
'THE GAY BEARDS' DEMYSTIFY THEIR ENDURG FRIENDSHIP
“It’s no different than other groups the gay muny.
His experience also illtrat the divi between generatns that mirrors the gay muny’s transformatns before and after the worst days of the HIV/AIDS crisis.
THE GAY BEARDS: GLTER MOTACH AND FLOWER BEARDS STRAIGHT OUT OF PORTLAND, OREGON
“In the AIDS epimic, many gay people cid not to go out.
“We get a lot of people that don’t have any sort of gay anizatns or plac to go, ” Beck said. “Bears don’t f the normal look of what gay men are supposed to look like, ” Beck add. If you’re a gay man who lik to grow a beard, you need to know how to take re of and style the bt way possible.