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In honor of a new book on the 'stache, here are 31 gay or bi folks who rock facial hair.

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GAY HISTORY: WHEN DID WE TURN ON THE MOTACHE?

Meet the facial-hair style takg over every gay bar the cy. * gay man with mustache *

The Gay Mtache. 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.

#TBT: THE GAY MTACHE

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Forster whheld publitn of his groundbreakg gay romance novel Mrice until after his ath.

GAY MEN, QUEER WOMEN, AND THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE MTACHE

Meet the facial-hair style takg over every gay bar the cy. The skny ’stache n be seen at gay bars across the cy — om more normative bars playg Drag Race on Thursday nights to famo queer clubs Bhwick and sticky sex bars the Village. We all have the mtache right now, ” said Jt about his new facial hair outsi an East Village gay bar.

DICK LESCH’S GUI TO SEVENTI GAY SLANG

From a queer perspective, the mtache’s associatn wh sexual viancy also pots to the “Castro clon” of the ’80s: mascule gay men who drsed alike, slept together, and were eventually undone and vilified by society durg the AIDS crisis. If this mtache had s own mood board, might clu Freddie Mercury, a few shots of the Castro s heyday, and a vtage gay-porn image.

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#TBT: The Gay Mtache .

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