1: Beards

Now i know not all gays have beards mainly twinks! some of whom dont actually have the facial hair follicles to grow a proper one. others that i have seen both in Soho and in the Provinces try to cover it up with foundation!!! But for the purposes of this segment im mainly talking about BEARS and CLONES as ive been told they/we are called, Quinton Crisp's tall dark man, that so many gays are enamoured with, in order to attract a tall dark man we make ourselves look like a tall dark man and one of those signiture looks is a beard. a strong stereotype of masculinity remember god had a beard!!!! as to why so many gay men have beards im sure it is for a wide variety of reasons, vanity, laziness, fashion but it is clearly the thing for the moment with so many guys sporting them. in my circle of friends for instance i can think of only a few guys that don't have them and in a fair few places like vauxhall you would be in the minority not to have one!

Now i should point out that beards do come in a variety of colour's and style's and yes the gay beard look is one where we still except ginger beards as one of our own unlike so many heterosexuals, if you don't get what I'm talking about watch Game On a BBC sitcom starring Ben Chaplin and Samantha Janus and where i suspect that Gingest mentality first started or where i first came aware of it but we can still blame Chris Evans for being a twat for the nineties as to why it happened. but a Gay Beard does seem to be of a particular style and it is not a George Michael goatee it is the full chin/cheek/tache style as modeled by the man below, with the neck shaved and more often than not combined with cropped hair where the is a blur between beard and hair!