Queerg the Earrg: Piercgs are Gay — STITCH

Contents:

• 5 FACTS BEHD THE "GAY" EAR
• WHICH EAR IS THE GAY EARRG? WHICH EAR IS THE STRAIGHT EAR?
• QUEERG THE EARRG: PIERCGS ARE GAY

5 FACTS BEHD THE "GAY" 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. 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. Have you ever heard the term "gay ear"?

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

Now ’s nsired a fad that has bee passe, but at one time, people really ed as a tell-tale sign of whether a young man was gay or not.

QUEERG THE EARRG: PIERCGS ARE GAY

Fact 1: The “Gay Ear” Referred To a Man Havg His Right Ear Pierced. When people talked about the gay ear, they referred to a specific ear beg pierced on a man. This trend didn't clu women the gay ear fad bee, most Wtern cultur sce the 1950s, has generally been a cultural norm for femal to have their ears pierced.

But wasn't until the late 1960s that people attributed a man who had his ear pierced to beg gay. Fact 3: Right Earlobe Meant Gay, Left Earlobe Meant Straight. The practice of ear piercg history began to thread through hippie muni first and then through the gay muny.

Some straight people also enjoyed the trend and tablished that the left earlobe signified that they were not gay, even though they were a man wh a sgle pierced ear.