“If this mustache had its own mood board, it might include Freddie Mercury, a few shots of the Castro in its heyday, and a vintage gay-porn image”
Fran. Photo: Emily Soto It’s petite, it’s well groomed, and like its wearer, it’s decidedly queer: the skinny mustache.
From left: Corey, Stephon. Photo: Emily Soto There’s a whiff of deviancy about wearing such a precise strip of lip fuzz. According to Christopher Oldstone-Moore, author of Of Beards and Men and an expert on gender, masculinity, and hair, this is a legacy from the ’60s, when mustaches were seen as “a form of rebellion against authority, particularly military masculinity.
Steffen, a makeup artist, added, “I think that wearing a ’stache is, for me, a signal to the public of a different and active sexual lifestyle.” He sees it as a way to separate himself from “the queers trying to live straight-people lives.”
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