History and Hypocrisy: What the "Gay" Ear Piercg Means 2022

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Today we have only two bld ems, one about a gay actor who is a gay person, the other about an actor who has a nasty old Prce Albert. A 1991 article om the New York Tim claimed that gay men uld be intified by their earrgs, statg that they “often [wore] a sgle piece of jewelry the right ear to dite sexual preference.

Acrdg to a popular gay tattoo artist, Samuel Steward (also intified as Phil Sparrow), the gay associatn particular actually began adoptg tattoos the 1950s.

HISTORY AND HYPOCRISY: WHAT THE "GAY" EAR PIERCG MEANS 2022

Steward himself was born 1909 and managed several different posns his life, cludg a teacher at a Roman Catholic universy and a wrer of gay pulp fictn. Steward issued his sights on gay men receivg tattoos his 1990 book ‘Bad Boys & Tough Tattoos: A Social History of the Tattoo wh Gangs, Sailors, and Street-Corner Punks.

’ Steward said: ‘One change, however, me about the homosexual attu towards tattoos around 1954. ’ He rumed: ‘Followg the natnal release of the movie The Wild One wh Marlon Brando; the origal motorcycle film, seemed to crystallize or release, the obscure and long-hidn feelgs of many homosexuals. Steward thks tattoos grew to a reprentatn of power for gay men, almost uned wh the gay leather muny.

He said: ‘I was overwhelmed by the sudn appearance of so many of the figur… as the impulse of many homosexuals to be nsired more mascule – by the addn of a tattoo – grew stronger. In Nazi Germany, the mid-1940s, gay mat ncentratn mps were ma to wrappg pk triangl as a symbol of shame.

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