Wh Jockstraps Htg the Runways, Fashn is Sayg Gay Loud and Clear

Jockstraps are htg the nways the backdrop of Florida senators wrg “don't say gay” laws. * gay men and fashion *

” The image was shared untls tim, mostly by queer and gay fashn-phil, and garnered reactns om many dtry sirs, cludg GQ France’s Head of Edorial Content Pierre A. M’Pelé, who mented “gay rights! Ask any gay man and they’ll be sure to tell you that, their world, jockstraps are ls about sports and more about sex, though they do toy wh the male gaze-y athlete Valento showg flamboyant men’s uture and Fendi puttg cropped jackets and Mary Jan on s menswear nways, 's clear that menswear has shifted a more genr-fluid directn.

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Men’s unrwear and swimwear targetg gay men is nothg new the Wt, but now newers based Asia like Tight Tams and U-Touch are makg forays to this niche dtry wh often darg and lourful signs. * gay men and fashion *

Florida senators might be wrg “don’t say gay” laws, but wh the jockstraps and next-gen menswear, fashn is very much sayg gay loud and clear–the way should be.

Charl: There is a fe workg man fetish thg gog on wh jumpsus (although I thk that's more of a gay fantasy than a straight one). Swimwear and unrwear targetg gay men gets boost Asia as newers enter the niche dtry.

Brands such as Tight Tams and U-Touch are terg to gay men lookg for somethg more darg and lourful.

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Theory: Man sir to create the ial “look” for woman. Then another thought: Why is most high end or famo fashn signer (men)… are gay, bi-sexual, etc? Soclogil theory — morn day society don’t enurage “straight” men to go to fashn, as is tradnally seen as the realm of women. However note all the… * gay men and fashion *

But when one particular look cropped up the post-Stonewall gay scene of the 1970s, was so popular—and so distct—that the guys who sported were dismissed as “clon. )And while the nickname was ially pejorative, the clone perd marked perhaps the first time that gay men prented themselv wh a queer-signalg uniform that was a direct rponse to societal stereotyp. “The clone was a reactn to thgs you would see movi of gay men beg flty and nelly, ” says John Calendo, a wrer who lived LA and New York Cy throughout the 70s and 80s, and worked as an edor at the clone-cubatg sk mags Blueboy and In Touch for Men.

He pots to the gay mstrel stereotyp the 1967 film The Producers, along wh the timid-lookg guys on the illtrated vers of gay pulp books wh nam like All the Sad Young Men. (Not to mentn the 1964 article Life magaze lled “Homosexualy Ameri, ” which scribed a “sad and often sordid world.

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”) “That’s the kd of imagery”—backwards stereotyp that basilly villaized queer people—“that a lot of my generatn who beme the clone people grew up wh the ccible of the 60s, ” Calendo ntu, when the civil rights and gay liberatn movements were expandg ias of equaly and eedom. Drsg like a clone, he says, was a rejectn of those olr gay ’s not so easy to ppot precisely who origated the clone ial, guys who were alive at the time ually brg up Al Parker, an adult film star turned producer and director who worked om the 70s to the early 90s. (Parker would eventually bee an advote for gay rights and safe sex, producg only safe-sex films before he passed away om plitns due to AIDS 1992.

It was like, Oh that’s somethg wh a ltle work I uld atta, and I thk that’s why beme so quickly absorbed to the gay muny. “When I thk back on havg lived through the time, was like gay guys were pg om this stereotype that was jt culted to the culture of sissi and faggots, ” says Woodff.

“The clone look was certaly about a whe gay man’s rponse and engagement wh those archetyp, ” says Ben Barry, the an of the school of fashn at the New School’s Parsons School of Dign, whose rearch foc on fashn’s relatnship to masculy, sexualy, and the body.

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