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We’re celebrating #LGBTplusHM25 this month here at NOTCHES. Last Thursday, we looked back at music within our past articles, and today we’re moving our focus onto style.
Fashion and self-styling have an intrinsic link to sexuality, particularly in how they are read by onlookers, as highlighted in Julia Laite’s 2014 article Beards, Real Men, and Poseurs: male sexuality and fashion since around 1900.
Laite uses a post by Nikki Daniels circulated on social media against “bearded hipsters” as a way in to analyse codes of masculinity. Laite notes how Daniels’ critique of these hairy hipsters is laced with homophobia.
Find the article here: https://wp.me/p6JJ6S-nu
From beards to Bowery, in our second fashion-focused throwback, Stephen Brogan more recently shed light on fashion icon Leigh Bowery and club Taboo. Historical treatment has mythologised the two as unique, but Brogan reminds us how both club and designer sat within a broader context of youth culture.
Brogan writes that ‘the fashion crowd that frequented Taboo were but one tribe in a capital city saturated in youth tribes, all of which had their own striking dress codes, music, and social spaces,’ but that the closure of Taboo redefined media and historical portrayals of Bowery.
Read more here: https://wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Lq
