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Contents:
- HOW TO GROW AND TAKE CARE OF A BEARD: TIPS FOR GAY MEN
- GAY HISTORY: WHEN DID WE TURN ON THE MOTACHE?
- A DEEPER, DARKER LOOK AT JAM BEARD, FOOD ORACLE AND GAY MAN
- 'THE GAY BEARDS' DEMYSTIFY THEIR ENDURG FRIENDSHIP
- AUTHOR JOHN BIRDSALL ON JAM BEARD'S GAY INTY AND OREGON ROOTS
HOW TO GROW AND TAKE CARE OF A BEARD: TIPS FOR GAY MEN
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. * beard gay culture *
In the early days of queer culture, a “beard” was a wife, girliend or female pann who acted (wtgly or not) as social ver for a closeted gay man.
GAY HISTORY: WHEN DID WE TURN ON THE MOTACHE?
In the days when virile movie stars dated betiful women to ver up their secret gay liftyl, the beard was an dispensable part of the social orr. Today, at least the rarified culture bubbl which I float, beg gay isn’t the shame issue of yteryear, and few if any need to mata a sexual inty ver-up.
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. What is a beard, and why are gay men mad wh beards?
Beards are slowly gag populary the gay muny. For a long time, a clean-shaven ch and youthful look were the stereotypil imag of gay men. Today, gay men are liberal wh facial hair styl, g beards to create favorable imprsns.
A DEEPER, DARKER LOOK AT JAM BEARD, FOOD ORACLE AND GAY MAN
A mon misnceptn among gay men who wish to change their facial appearance is that smetic surgery is the only optn. Gay men wh thicker facial hair make better longer-term partners. What typ of beards are there for gay men?
Whether you are gay or straight, a beard enhanc your facial featur, improvg your overall attractivens by drawg attentn to your face.
'THE GAY BEARDS' DEMYSTIFY THEIR ENDURG FRIENDSHIP
But he argu that Magnum also reprented a mastream, TV-iendly offshoot of a popular gay look of the era: “The so-lled ‘clone, ’ wh his obligatory mtache, bomber jacket, beefed-up shoulrs and mcular butt unr tight jeans.
AUTHOR JOHN BIRDSALL ON JAM BEARD'S GAY INTY AND OREGON ROOTS
This Freddie Mercury-que “clone” look had evolved turn, wr Peterk, om the subculture of “leathermen” the gay clubs of the 1970s, whose “sadomasochistic practis and role-playg flourished and beme a new homoerotic norm. ” and “Go Wt” featured both a leatherman and a mtached wboy, helpg to make Middle Ameri aware of the mtache’s proment stat gay culture.