I’ve known many gay guys with long hair. I think gay men seem to follow trends more than straight men, this is why you don’t see many today, as long hair has been out of fashion for men for 20 years now.
I remember I cried when “Uncle Jesse” (John Stamos) cut that beautiful hair of his. In the 70s, when I was little, seems all the men had long or longer hair. I can’t recall anyone having buzz cuts. Of course guys didn’t wear shorts that came down to their ankles. Or when they did we called them “floods”
Did they have beards, too? I’m a straight woman and I don’t know if a guy is gay unless they say they are, but my impression is that longish hair without a beard is even rarer among gays.
He said “many” conservatives, not “all” or even “most.” Should I take it, then, that your contention is that, in fact, “very few” conservatives harbor strongly negative opinions about homosexuals?
Miller, Miller, Miller… Conservatives don’t hate homosexuals. They just don’t want them to be able to get married (42 states). Or in some cases adopt children (5 states explicitly). And in other cases, even have anything even remotely resembling marriage, including being barred from having any of the same rights as married people have (18 or 19 states). Some even want to ban sodomy again so that gay people can’t even have sex legally anymore (Official Texas GOP platform, probably many others too). That doesn’t stem from having a “negative opinion” about homosexuals, it just stems from having a positive opinion of traditional marriage and relationships and procreation rights!
Yep. That’s why I was hesitant to include him. All I had to go on was that during the Ziggy Stardust era, Bowie was publicly identifying as some flavor of queer or other. Turned out to have just been hype, though. (I think…)
Besides, does a mullet really count as long hair? Seems like they’re trying to have it both ways.
Argent Towers: No gay guy ever has shoulder-length or longer hair.
Faggot Hippie: Well I’m a gay guy and I have shoulder-length or longer hair.
Argent Towers: No *truly *gay person ever has shoulder-length or longer hair.
Faggot Hippie: Screw you, man!
(No offense to Faggot Hippies anywhere, I only used the term as a joke in a sort of ironic and dark-humor sort of way, and not as a pejorative)
The point was that calling someone a “faggot” in the 60s was an insult. It had absolutely nothing to do with how homosexuals wore their hair, especially since more people using the insult had probably never met a gay man (well, they had, but they never knew they had; most gay men stayed in the closet). Especially since the insult was often just plain “hippie faggot” with no mention of the hair.
But back then, people of a certain mindset were prone to call other men “faggot” as a general insult. In many contexts, it was completely divorced from homosexuality and just meant “weak and disgusting.”
Not everything in the world is to be taken literally, you know.
Or maybe Bi-hair?