The Gay Beards, popular on both Instagram and YouTube, talk to NBC OUT about the bety of iendship and why they've been "practilly separable" for nearly 20 years.
Contents:
- GAY BEARD MEN STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
- HOW TO GROW AND TAKE CARE OF A BEARD: TIPS FOR GAY MEN
- GAY MAN BEARD STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
- GAY BEAR VIOS: THE BT OF THE BT
- GAY BEARD
- JAM BEARD: THE CLOSETED GAY LIFE OF THE MAN BEHD THE AWARD
- 'THE GAY BEARDS' DEMYSTIFY THEIR ENDURG FRIENDSHIP
- GAY 'BEARS' BARE ALL BODY-POSIVE ART EXHIB
- JAM BEARD AND THE JOYS AND PAS OF GAY INTY
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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.
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GAY BEAR VIOS: THE BT OF THE BT
As such, was also “a kd of secret rerd of 20th century gay migratn to ci om across the untry” that was both celebratory and had an unrlyg sadns, Birdsall wr. They ll themselv The Gay Beards, but behd all that quirkily groomed facial hair is nearly 20 years of iendship -- and so much Delrenti and Johnathan Dahl, better known as The Gay Beards, have been bt iends ever sce they met at the age of 8.
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The quali have led to bee the goofy beard men we are today, ” Delrenti openly gay duo certaly don’t take their iendship for granted and regnize each other’s support was ccial their self-realizatns. "Delrenti and Dahl nsir themselv brothers, a closens that sh through The Gay Beards acunt.
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. The terview was eded for clary and Lucky Peach article, “Ameri, Your Food Is So Gay, ” published 2013, set the stage for your reflectns on Jam Beard (and won a Beard award — meta).
Related to the Lucky Peach piece was a nostalgia for my gay “uncl, ” Pat and Lou. And wrg “Ameri, Your Food Is So Gay, ” was really the first time that I unrked the bottle and let myself feel all of .
JAM BEARD: THE CLOSETED GAY LIFE OF THE MAN BEHD THE AWARD
For a lot of men Beard’s generatn, lonels and isolatn and exmunitn were part of beg gay. I wasn’t ed to thkg about this way but gay people were really an opprsed mory — there was a btal system of opprsn.
'THE GAY BEARDS' DEMYSTIFY THEIR ENDURG FRIENDSHIP
I was stck by how much misery was jt assumed, and taken for granted, by gay people. I’m thkg of the summer 1956 when Jam [who was Spa to work on what beme an aborted book on we] sneaks away to Barcelona and meets up wh a iend om the Stat who is gay, and they have dner at a rtrant lled Los Caral. It’s a plited do you thk about how the public relat to gayns male culary figur today?
GAY 'BEARS' BARE ALL BODY-POSIVE ART EXHIB
I agree wh If we look at Antoni [Porowski] om “Queer Eye, ” there was adulatn the gay muny.
But the gay food world, cludg gay food Twter, the reactn was very harsh, like: “This guy n’t ok. ” There are the cultural assumptns about younger gay men, and he had to work hard to tablish credibily.
JAM BEARD AND THE JOYS AND PAS OF GAY INTY
Somethg unrlyg that moment seemed credibly backward: After everythg that’s happened the gay civil rights movement and evolvg nscns and marriage equaly, we’re still a backward place.
Gay men have a lot of ternalized homophobia that still bds . I do thk Ted Allen is a much more tertg figure — an out gay food personaly who wrote for Esquire, had a male voice but not an exclively queer voice, who uld speak to straight men as well.
He had a really problematic gay inty that wasn’t about marchg and wavg on a float. I thk the cleart picture I got of Jam at his most relaxed and fortable and gayt was a first-hand acunt through Andrew Zimmern.