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handlebar moustache

  • 26-04-2012 04:59PM
    #1
    Mikia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭


    Hey all

    This might seem like a silly question but is the handlebar moustache a symbol for anything in gay community?

    Thanks!


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  • #2
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,232 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Mikia wrote: »
    Hey all

    This might seem like a silly question but is the handlebar moustache a symbol for anything in gay community?

    Thanks!

    Not that I'm aware of

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #3
    BattleCorp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,867 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    Mikia wrote: »
    Hey all

    This might seem like a silly question but is the handlebar moustache a symbol for anything in gay community?

    Thanks!


    Bad taste maybe :rolleyes:


  • #4
    Sonics2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,036 ✭✭✭Sonics2k


    A symbol that it's November?


  • #5
    Locker10a
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 4,317 Mod ✭✭✭✭Locker10a


    I belive it may have been the steroype of a gay mans style of facial hair from the 1970's and may be connected to the Tom of Finland image! But today god no! And i hope it doesnt come back into fashion!


  • #6
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 74,122 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    A serious Freddie Mercury fan?


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  • #7
    brokenice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 161 ✭✭brokenice


    go for it! serious hotness!


  • #8
    Mikia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭Mikia


    Cool thanks! I had a discussion with a lecturer about moustaches the other day (you don't wanna know) and she said that by using a moustache symbol I could be offending the gay community. After hours of research (and no result) I thought I would ask here! So thanks again :)


  • #9
    Hamhide
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 289 ✭✭Hamhide


    god i wish my bf grew an epic beard.so sexy!


  • #10
    1ZRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭1ZRed


    Hamhide wrote: »
    god i wish my bf grew an epic beard.so sexy!

    Yeah a beard is very sexy. A handlebar moustache? F no!


  • #11
    JH_raheny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,005 ✭✭✭JH_raheny


    never heard it should mean anything gay lol
    personally I think very few men can pull it off having handlebar tache, suit more mature men 50+ best


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  • #12
    unfortunately
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 213 ✭✭unfortunately


    I have heard of the association of the handlebar moustache with gay people. It's like a gay stereotype, the leather-clad biker with a handlebar moustache. Think the Village People or the Blue Oyster bar from Police Academy.


  • #13
    Aurongroove
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 876 ✭✭✭Aurongroove


    Academic people sometimes fall danger to over analyzing or over symbolizing things.


  • #14
    unfortunately
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 213 ✭✭unfortunately


    Another example, by Charlie Brooker in a column where he posits that Star Wars was a gay parable:

    "It's hard to see how they could make Star Wars any gayer, unless they gave the Millennium Falcon a handlebar moustache."

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/15/charlie-brooker-gay-video-game


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