In honor of a new book on the 'stache, here are 31 gay or bi folks who rock facial hair.
Contents:
- GAY HISTORY: WHEN DID WE TURN ON THE MOTACHE?
- #TBT: THE GAY MTACHE
- GAY MEN, QUEER WOMEN, AND THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE MTACHE
- DICK LESCH’S GUI TO SEVENTI GAY SLANG
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.
#TBT: THE GAY MTACHE
In honor of a new book on the 'stache, here are 31 gay or bi folks who rock facial hair. * gay man with mustache *
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. Meet the facial-hair style takg over every gay bar the cy.
GAY MEN, QUEER WOMEN, AND THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE MTACHE
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.
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.
“It really do somethg for people that fs to the bill of our ’80s gay male porn fantasy.
DICK LESCH’S GUI TO SEVENTI GAY SLANG
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.
” Trends the gay muny, he says, aren’t that different om the straight world. “Back the seventi, the mtache was an inic gay symbol; that’s how you uld intify gay men, ” says John.