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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. 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.

But he argu that Magnum also reprented a mastream, TV-iendly offshoot of a popular gay look of the era: “The so-lled ‘clone, ’ wh his obligatory mtache, bomber jacket, beefed-up shoulrs and mcular butt unr tight jeans. This Freddie Mercury-que “clone” look had evolved turn, wr Peterk, om the subculture of “leathermen” the gay clubs of the 1970s, whose “sadomasochistic practis and role-playg flourished and beme a new homoerotic norm.

” and “Go Wt” featured both a leatherman and a mtached wboy, helpg to make Middle Ameri aware of the mtache’s proment stat gay culture. Perhaps equally vastatg for the ’stache’s populary straight society was the nng joke the first four Police Amy movi — om 1984 to 1987 — which hapls male characters fd themselv trapped a fictnal gay club, the neon-l Blue Oyster Bar, where they’re forced to dance wh fuzzy-lipped leathermen.

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It was an creasgly unfunny gag, which simultaneoly managed to entrench a daft homophobic stereotype and torpedo the mtache as a macho stat symbol for straight men. What really ma mtach utterly unwearable, though, wasn’t so much their associatn wh gay and S&M subcultur but that — as epomized by those Blue Oyster sks — they beme the subject of ridicule.

A women who go on a date wh a gay man to mask the fact that he is gay. ( Boss suffers om severe homophobia).

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JAM BEARD AND THE JOYS AND PAS OF GAY INTY

Everyone knew Don was gay.

A beardA woman who is datg a gay man and who unbeknownst to her is verg for his latent homosexualy. BeardWhen a pop star is gay, management will give them a girliend to hi . Birdsall and I discsed one of Beard’s many inti: his ght life as a gay man, a theme the book that Birdsall exam wh a jeweler’s exactg and lovg gaze.

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