What ear piercing is gay
Right and Wrong
When I was an eighteen-year-old freshman at Mizzou, way back in , I decided to flaunt my newfound self-rule from my parents by getting an ear pierced. What a rebel I was! If getting a piercing while sitting in a comfy chair at Claire’s Boutique in the Columbia Mall doesn’t verify to your parents and the rest of the world that you are a certifiable bad lad, then nothing will.
Travis Naughton
When my dad first saw my new earring, he rolled his eyes and laughed. When my mom saw it, she said she could have saved me the ten bucks and done it herself. She favored the shelter pin, ice cube, and raw potato method—which, in hindsight, would have given me much more avenue cred than a trip to a boutique.
Nevertheless, I’ve worn an earring for the better part of three decades now. Kids at school often seek me why I hold an earring, and hoping to enlighten them, I always say that boys can have earrings, too. Then they inevitably inquire why I only acquire one ear pierced.
Until last week, my answer has been, “Lots of men have one earring. It’s just what some men did back w
Why Did We Develop 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 enjoy everyone I met, no matter their place of start, knew and understood the earring code, as arbitrary as it seems.
It was even solidified in the New York Times: A announce said gay men “often [wore] a single piece of jewelry in the right ear to indicate sexual preference.” In , the Times covered it yet again, in TMagazine: “the control of thumb has always been that the right ear is the lgbtq+ one,” the composer wrote about his own piercing journey.
Historically speaking, the facts 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 Explore of the Male Body, Desmond Morris explains that earring
One-stop Guide on Ear Piercing for Gay Men Meaning, History, and Look Book
Can you base someone&#;s sexual orientation on which ear he pins his earring on? Gay men also used the placement of earrings and jewelry to drop hints about their sexuality and attract fellow gay men from the crowd. Scan this post to understand the context and meaning behind lgbtq+ ear piercing and how you may style your own this
Pieces of jewelry are not just a woman&#;s thing&#;men also wear them, as in the case of ear piercings. Earrings generally gained popularity throughout second, and eventually, men also got their ear piercings. From the continuing prevalence of earrings, you may have heard that ear piercings can also indicate a man&#;s sexual preference.
Sometime in the s, it became common information that gay men wore earrings in their right ear. The craze for so-called &#;gay earrings&#; persisted well into the &#;90s. However, the right ear remains the most common location for earrings.
More guys than ever are getting their ears pierced as the practice gains popularity among both sexes.
Right=GAY
Left=Straight
Both=Normal
Male #2- "WHAT?! Dude, that's the gay ear!"
Male #1- "I know that."
Male #2- *slowly walks away*
Male #1- NO WAIT COME BACK I LOVE YOU!!!!
Person 2: bro that’s the gay ear, you know that right?
Person 1: I thought you knew I was gay? Why else would I pierce my right ear only?
Person 2: oh… I did not. Welp.. wonderful for you, see ya around