Meet the facial-hair style takg over every gay bar the cy.
Contents:
- GAY HISTORY: WHEN DID WE TURN ON THE MOTACHE?
- #TBT: THE GAY MTACHE
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
- KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
- GAY MEN, QUEER WOMEN, AND THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE MTACHE
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
GAY HISTORY: WHEN DID WE TURN ON THE MOTACHE?
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The Gay Mtache. Gay men practilly owned the mtache the '70s, and now 's bee a symbol of men's health issu celebrated every year durg Movember. In honor of our hairy history, we prent the big gay mtach of our past.
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Meet the facial-hair style takg over every gay bar the cy.
#TBT: THE GAY MTACHE
Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * gay men with moustache *
The skny ’stache n be seen at gay bars across the cy — om more normative bars playg Drag Race on Thursday nights to famo queer clubs Bhwick and sticky sex bars the Village. We all have the mtache right now, ” said Jt about his new facial hair outsi an East Village gay bar. From a queer perspective, the mtache’s associatn wh sexual viancy also pots to the “Castro clon” of the ’80s: mascule gay men who drsed alike, slept together, and were eventually undone and vilified by society durg the AIDS crisis.
If this mtache had s own mood board, might clu Freddie Mercury, a few shots of the Castro s heyday, and a vtage gay-porn image. “It really do somethg for people that fs to the bill of our ’80s gay male porn fantasy. 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.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
The tash is enjoyg a renaissance among pop stars, movie actors and the wir public after s of beg irretrievably associated wh ary spots or the gay culture of the 1970s and 1980s * gay men with moustache *
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.
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.
KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
In honor of a new book on the 'stache, here are 31 gay or bi folks who rock facial hair. * gay men with moustache *
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.
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GAY MEN, QUEER WOMEN, AND THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE MTACHE
Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.
Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league. In fact, men wh mtach are eher gay or fugiv, or both at the same time. ”Mira also highlights the socsexual nnotatns of mtach: “We nnot ignore the mtache’s associatn wh gay men, which is an evolutn of the dapper mtache of the end of the 19th century and begng of the 20th century and which turn leads to the brimmg mtache of the 1970s, ” an exaggeratn of the hyper-mascule thetic that reigned durg that and that gay men end up appropriatg.
“I thk om that moment, when the mtache beme associated wh gay men, heterosexual men started to avoid , ” Mira is of urse a gay in of the 1970s and 1980s who wore a mtache and nverted to a symbol: Queen ont man Freddie Mercury, who wore his as a symbol of sexual eedom. Schiff (Getty Imag)In the 1990s, a mtache was the exclive prerve of the extravagant homosexual (John Waters), the edian (Eddie Murphy) or the androgyno superstar (Prce).
Call what you want but know that gay, bi, and trans men and even a few queer women have helped popularize the mtache over the years.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
He clus a handful of gay or bi men, some multiple tegori (Freddie Mercury fs "gay mtach" and "mtach that rock, " for example) and sce he's a doctor, male groomg expert, and wrer (check out One Thoand Beards for even harrier boys), you n bet he knows what he's talkg honor of Peterk's work, and the Movember movement ( which men around the globe sprout mtach November to help raise money and awarens about prostate and tticular ncer), we've e up wh our LGBT slishow of the 'stache through the ag om Bayard Rt and Rock Hudson to Marcel Prot and Jennifer Miller.
On the followg pag, see our gay gallery of most-famo mtach.
As gay inty and polics began to perate pop culture, we saw the emergence of the Castro Clone, often wearg a heavy mtache: a reference to the workg Joe.