The First Openly Gay Pop Star Wasn't Who You Probably Thk - Queerty

Contents:

• WHICH EAR IS THE GAY EARRG? WHICH EAR IS THE STRAIGHT EAR?
• HISTORY AND HYPOCRISY: WHAT THE "GAY" EAR PIERCG MEANS 2022
• TOO GAY, TOO WEIRD, TOO PREGNANT: THE MOST NTROVERSIAL BARBIE DOLLS HISTORY
• THE FIRST OPENLY GAY POP STAR WASN’T WHO YOU PROBABLY THK

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

Per one meme, the earrg is favor among “gays, micians, artists, goths, skaters, and bisexuals, ” or, as one earrg-wearer phrased , “creative souls Bhwick and the East Village.

Troy, a graphic signer spotted at a gay bar, lled his sgle earrg a “female repellent” and said that he chose to pierce his right ear — the “gay” ear, acrdg to the historil trope — to dite his queer sexualy.

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

I’m a gay wch, ’” he said.

Neverthels, today’s sgle dangly earrg tends to rist intarian labels, and many of the sourc terviewed said they hadn’t thought about the “gay ear” sce llege, or public high school the 90s. Phillip Pirdi, edor chief of Out magaze, quipped, “I am about as gay as the day is long, so both of my ears are my gay ears. Which ear is the gay earrg?

TOO GAY, TOO WEIRD, TOO PREGNANT: THE MOST NTROVERSIAL BARBIE DOLLS HISTORY

You might rell hearg that if a man wore an earrg on the right ear, that meant he was gay. The term "gay ear" was often ed. 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. The "gay earrg" fad lasted until the 1990s.

A brief history of the gay earrg. Now you know a ltle b about the gay ear.

THE FIRST OPENLY GAY POP STAR WASN’T WHO YOU PROBABLY THK

The tth is that gay men weren't the first men to start wearg earrgs. It's not que clear how the earrg beme adopted by the gay muny as a . Sce beg gay was already seen as non-tradnal, g earrgs seemed like a logil choice.