Gay wearing earrings
Is it weird for guys with long hair to wear earrings?
naturalplastic wrote:
nick007 wrote:
I heard that a guy wearing only one earring meant he was identifying as being gay. It's enjoy how the punks had wild heir so they could advertise being punk & find other punks. I'm not sure if the guys wearing a single earring thing is true or not but that is the stereotype I heard & some of the gay guys I've known wore only one earring. In regards to the long hair, almost all the gay guys I've known who were not trans had shorter hair. I reflect guys with lengthy hair wanted to seem like kewl metal-heads & thought wearing earrings would make them look trans.
No. Its goes thisway: Women wear rings on both ears. Men just wear one earring. Like the pirates of old supposedly did, or the way Gypsy men do...o
Earrings and Gay Men
William Rasschaert
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I want to throw this out there and spot if anyone has an opinion on this.
As my companion and I were walking around Boston on Saturday we got into a
discussion about the aforementioned subject. I reflect that gay men who get
earrings and have them installed in their left ear are simply hypocrits
to everything we claim we are against. I signify, if you are gay and are
trying to pass yourself off as straight, is that not hypocritical? I
know that the old rules about the left and right ears is no longer used,
but some of my friends got earrings, and they are gay, and put them in
their left ears. They say they maintain people guessing, I say that one look
at them, minus the earring, and they would not have to surmise as to their
Why Did We Increase Up Thinking a Piercing in the Right Ear Was Gay?
On the playground, it was a truth so firmly established that defying it meant social suicide: If you have an earring in your right ear, it means you’re gay. We accepted it as gospel and never questioned its validity.
It may have been the subtle homophobia of my Illinois community in the ’90s. But as I grew up, it seemed fond everyone I met, no matter their place of origin, knew and understood the earring code, as arbitrary as it seems.
It was even solidified in the New York Times: A 1991 report said gay men “often [wore] a single piece of jewelry in the right ear to indicate sexual preference.” In 2009, the Times covered it yet again, in TMagazine: “the rule of thumb has always been that the right ear is the gay one,” the author wrote about his own piercing journey.
Historically speaking, the truth is more complex. Earrings on guys have signified many things over the years, such as social stature or religious affiliation. In his book The Naked Man: A Study of the Male Body, Desmond Morris explains tha
How did having piercings in the right ear become associated with homosexuality?
gracefulfatsheba1
How did having piercings in the right ear become associated with homosexuality? It’s something I’ve heard for a long time and never questioned it until now. Whenever I see a guy with an earring, I instinctively check if it’s left or right out of curiosity.
When did this association become prevalent? Where did it approach from? Does it vary by culture?
engineer_comp_geek2
Not only does it vary by culture, which ear is the “homosexual” ear varies from region to region in the U.S. In the northern WV, eastern OH, western PA region where I grew up, left was the “straight” ear and right was the “homosexual” ear. I think that’s the more common version, but I’ve met plenty of people who said it was the other way around in their area.
I don’t remember earrings for men being very common in the 1970s. There were some hippies wearing them but that was more of a protest of social norms than anything else. I remember hearing about the one earring means homosexual thing in the