Derrick L. Middleton’s Shape Up: Gay the Black Barbershop explor the hypermascule attus that keep so many young gay black men om livg their thentic liv this cril space of black culture.
Contents:
How did a small barber shop Edgewater cultivate a followg Chigo’s gay kkster scene? Patrons say down to acceptance. * barbershop 2 gay *
But wh the barbershop beg such a black male space, there is a lot of homophobia and toxic masculy those rooms. We looked at sort of like the next step the gay Boxers/shirtls baristas market.
And offerg nu cuts will certaly get gay/bi men of lor the door. It’s the kd of place where olr men wh heavy Italian accents talk about soccer next to young gay men vered tattoos.
“I’d say ’s about 60 percent gay, 20 percent hipster-straight, 15 percent middle-aged straight men, and 5 percent transgenr or genr fluid, ” said Mch Koonce, who has worked at the barbershop for three years and is known for his beard, which go down to his cht. Tl clu the ual Rollg Stone, Natnal Geographic, and Esquire, but also gay magaz like Out and Advote alongsi a llectn of children’s books featurg Pokemon and Cur Gee.