![]() 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.”Īlong with being a symbol of sexual openness and queer freedom, the mustache also presents queer men with a way to hark back to a lost history. “I feel it’s been sexualized in a cool way - just another way we can be visibly queer and outwardly sexual, especially in a time when that’s not totally cool with everyone,” said Tyler. ![]() 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.” Ironically, mustaches have their roots in the military as a way to look “fierce and intimidating,” but as armies around the world began to nix the ’stache, wearing one became a sign of nonconformity.įrom a queer perspective, the mustache’s association with sexual deviancy also points to the “Castro clones” of the ’80s: masculine gay men who dressed alike, slept together, and were eventually undone and vilified by society during the AIDS crisis.įor many queer men, this association with sexual deviancy is kind of the point. There’s a whiff of deviancy about wearing such a precise strip of lip fuzz. I think her name was Timmy,” he was later overheard telling a friend. “I stole it from some thot I hooked up with once. We all have the mustache right now,” said Justin about his new facial hair outside an East Village gay bar. And despite its popularity among thin, baby-faced white twinks, it seems to span a full range of identities. The skinny ’stache can be seen at gay bars across the city - from more normative bars playing Drag Race on Thursday nights to infamous queer clubs in Bushwick and sticky sex bars in the Village. According to Alex, a barber in Brooklyn, its two most crucial descriptors are subtle and understated. Rather, it is short (never voluminous), thin (but perhaps not always “Prince thin”), and occasionally shaved down the middle. This mustache of the moment is no ’80s Tom Selleck pornstache with enough bush to capture falling crumbs nor is it the Salvador Dalí mustache, pointy and curled at the ends. Remember all the porn ships that have had 80s porn for rent? Hopefully, you’ll find some of these flicks here too.It’s petite, it’s well groomed, and like its wearer, it’s decidedly queer: the skinny mustache. Also, various media forms like VHS tapes were booming too, which means a better distribution network for XXX films. ![]() The 80s are among the best decades in the adult business for those reasons, followed closely by 1970s. It’s true, no matter if that’s nostalgia talking or facts. What’s so great about 1980s porn? First, this was the time of free spirits, hippie culture, parties, and having sex with anyone. Some were decoded from VHS tapes by porn enthusiasts while others have had an official remaster. So, to honor this incredible decade of porn, we have collected hundreds of porn films, all made from 1980 to 1989. Maybe it’s the generation that grew up with the VHS tapes that is now over-sharing the joy on the internet? Like, our “older friends” were likely from this era, maybe even early 80s and if you were to ask them about the greatest decade in the whole world, most should tell stories from the XXX industry of the 1980s. It’s always the 1980s porn movies that get a mention, every time.
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