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

Contents:

• 5 FACTS BEHD THE "GAY" EAR
• WHICH EAR IS THE GAY EARRG? WHICH EAR IS THE STRAIGHT EAR?
• HISTORY AND HYPOCRISY: WHAT THE "GAY" EAR PIERCG MEANS 2022
• WHICH EAR IS THE GAY EAR? IT’S THE LEFT, HERE’S WHY!
• WHAT AND WHY IS THE GAY EAR THE ?
• POT 89: THE GAY EAR

5 FACTS BEHD THE "GAY" EAR

Now ’s nsired a fad that has bee passe, but at one time, people really ed as a tell-tale sign of whether a young man was gay or not. When people talked about the gay ear, they referred to a specific ear beg pierced on a man.

This trend didn't clu women the gay ear fad bee, most Wtern cultur sce the 1950s, has generally been a cultural norm for femal to have their ears pierced.

WHICH EAR IS THE GAY EARRG? WHICH EAR IS THE STRAIGHT EAR?

But wasn't until the late 1960s that people attributed a man who had his ear pierced to beg gay. The practice of ear piercg history began to thread through hippie muni first and then through the gay muny. Some straight people also enjoyed the trend and tablished that the left earlobe signified that they were not gay, even though they were a man wh a sgle pierced ear.

Though some people preferred to have both ears pierced, the LGBT muny quickly cid that if a man had one ear pierced, namely the right one, on the earlobe, was a vert signal that he was gay.

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

Sce beg gay isn’t jt herently somethg visible om someone’s looks, the LGBTQ+ muny of centuri past spent a good amount of time lookg for specific styl or trends to allow people wh the muny to show other people that they were gay and proud of . In some societi where beg gay was eher owned upon or illegal and punishable, LGBTQ+ members would choose subtle methods of monstratg their sexualy.

Over the centuri, among different societi, any good historian n pot to a few different methods of gay signalg.

However, the subtle methods did ocsnally suffer when gay dividuals eher wanted a more prehensive monstratn of their gay pri or when straight people found out about the trend. Disverg the secret “gay ear ” led to creased scty of men's ears by discrimatory dividuals.

WHICH EAR IS THE GAY EAR? IT’S THE LEFT, HERE’S WHY!

By the 1990s, the fn of the gay ear had bee so nfg that most people jt shgged off the ia and cid that any man who had any part of his ears pierced mt be queer. However, as punk rock culture me more promently onto the scene, enough men began havg their ears pierced that people cid to move on om the ia of a “gay ear” entirely. Most people have pletely fotten about the gay ear fad or are too young to even remember .

WHAT AND WHY IS THE GAY EAR THE ?

While the ia of a gay ear, or anythg really that’s a tell of someone's sexualy seems lghable today, was once an tegral part of LGBTQ+ culture. The ia of gay signalg hasn't stopped, pecially plac and cultur where people n't be as vol about their sexualy as they might want to be.

POT 89: THE GAY EAR

You might rell hearg that if a man wore an earrg on the right ear, that meant he was gay. Around the 1960s, people began to tch on that a right-ear earrg was effectively a for beg gay.

It soon beme clear that the "gay ear" was no longer a reliable way to tell if a man was gay or not. Sce beg gay was already seen as non-tradnal, g earrgs seemed like a logil choice. By the late 1960s, wearg an earrg the right ear was a pretty clear sign that a man was gay.

Over time, beme a kd of open secret that more and more non-gay people were beg aware of.