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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?
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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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GAY MEN, QUEER WOMEN, AND THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE MTACHE
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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. Schiff (Getty Imag)In the 1990s, a mtache was the exclive prerve of the extravagant homosexual (John Waters), the edian (Eddie Murphy) or the androgyno superstar (Prce).