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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
GAY HISTORY: WHEN DID WE TURN ON THE MOTACHE?
Meet the facial-hair style takg over every gay bar the cy. * gay man with moustache *
The Gay Mtache.
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Meet the facial-hair style takg over every gay bar the cy.
#TBT: THE GAY MTACHE
* gay man with moustache *
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.
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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. * gay man with moustache *
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.
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”Mira also highlights the socsexual nnotatns of mtach: “We nnot ignore the mtache’s associatn wh gay men, which is an evolutn of the dapper mtache of the end of the 19th century and begng of the 20th century and which turn leads to the brimmg mtache of the 1970s, ” an exaggeratn of the hyper-mascule thetic that reigned durg that and that gay men end up appropriatg. “I thk om that moment, when the mtache beme associated wh gay men, heterosexual men started to avoid , ” Mira is of urse a gay in of the 1970s and 1980s who wore a mtache and nverted to a symbol: Queen ont man Freddie Mercury, who wore his as a symbol of sexual eedom.