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Contents:
GAY HISTORY: WHEN DID WE TURN ON THE MOTACHE?
In the early days of queer culture, a “beard” was a wife, girliend or female pann who acted (wtgly or not) as social ver for a closeted gay man.
GAY BEARD
In the days when virile movie stars dated betiful women to ver up their secret gay liftyl, the beard was an dispensable part of the social orr. Today, at least the rarified culture bubbl which I float, beg gay isn’t the shame issue of yteryear, and few if any need to mata a sexual inty ver-up.
JAM BEARD AND THE JOYS AND PAS OF GAY INTY
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