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#TBT: THE GAY MTACHE
* gay moustach *
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. Forster whheld publitn of his groundbreakg gay romance novel Mrice until after his ath. Meet the facial-hair style takg over every gay bar the cy.
GAY MTACHE VECTORS
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. Then the '70s, the mtache took on a sexual nnotatn -- there was the swger mtache, the porn mtache and then the gay/bisexual mtache, " says Peterk.
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. A group of men relax on the street durg the Gay Pri para New York Cy, June 1982. Barbara Alper//Getty ImagSo on one hand the mtache was aligned wh the stat quo (thk firemen and ps), while on the other beme shorthand (and ocsnally handlebar) for the sexual outsir: the swger, the porn star, the gay man.