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How the Marlboro Man changed gay men

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Feb 20, 2025
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I recently wrote about Trump’s favourite band, the Village People. Since LGBTQIA+++ History Month is upon us again, I thought I would expand on the background to their famous moustachioed “macho man” look, inspired by/appropriated from the late 1970s gay male street styles of Manhattan’s West Village. And how those styles themselves were appropriated.

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