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Contents:
- GAY HISTORY: WHEN DID WE TURN ON THE MOTACHE?
- GAY MEN, QUEER WOMEN, AND THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE MTACHE
GAY HISTORY: WHEN DID WE TURN ON THE MOTACHE?
Meet the facial-hair style takg over every gay bar the cy. * are mustaches gay *
The Gay Mtache.
GAY MEN, QUEER WOMEN, AND THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE MTACHE
In honor of a new book on the 'stache, here are 31 gay or bi folks who rock facial hair. * are mustaches gay *
Gay men practilly owned the mtache the '70s, and now 's bee a symbol of men's health issu celebrated every year durg Movember. In honor of our hairy history, we prent the big gay mtach of our past. Forster whheld publitn of his groundbreakg gay romance novel Mrice until after his ath.
As gay inty and polics began to perate pop culture, we saw the emergence of the Castro Clone, often wearg a heavy mtache: a reference to the workg Joe. A group of men relax on the street durg the Gay Pri para New York Cy, June 1982. Barbara Alper//Getty ImagSo on one hand the mtache was aligned wh the stat quo (thk firemen and ps), while on the other beme shorthand (and ocsnally handlebar) for the sexual outsir: the swger, the porn star, the gay man.