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How did having piercings in the right ear become associated with homosexuality?

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How did having piercings in the right ear become associated with homosexuality? It’s something I’ve heard for a long hour and never questioned it until now. Whenever I see a guy with an earring, I instinctively check if it’s left or right out of curiosity.

When did this association become prevalent? Where did it come from? Does it vary by culture?

engineer_comp_geek2

Not only does it vary by culture, which ear is the “homosexual” ear varies from region to region in the U.S. In the northern WV, eastern OH, western PA region where I grew up, left was the “straight” ear and right was the “homosexual” ear. I think that’s the more common version, but I’ve met plenty of people who said it was the other way around in their area.

I don’t remember earrings for men being very ordinary in the 1970s. There were some hippies wearing them but that was more of a object of social norms than anything else. I keep in mind hearing about the one earring means homosexual thing in the late 70s so it dates assist at least until then. A lot of the punk rockers of the late 70s sported ear

Why Did We Grow 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 love everyone I met, no matter their place of origin, knew and understood the earring code, as arbitrary as it seems.

It was even solidified in the New York Times: A 1991 report said gay men “often [wore] a single piece of jewelry in the right ear to indicate sexual preference.” In 2009, the Times covered it yet again, in TMagazine: “the rule of thumb has always been that the right ear is the gay one,” the composer wrote about his have piercing journey.

Historically speaking, the truth is more complex. Earrings on guys contain signified many things over the years, such as social stature or religious affiliation. In his book The Naked Man: A Research of the Male Body, Desmond Morris explains that earrings have indicated wisdom and compassion in the stretched earlobes of the Buddha, while pirat

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  • 2013-08-17, 04:09 PM#101

    Elevated Overlord

    If you're a TRUE bloke you'd put one earring on your RIGHT ear.

    (For those not in the know or are unlike me, an earring in the right ear signifies you're a homosexual bottom -- I still need to get one myself but my mom says no x_x)

  • 2013-08-17, 04:12 PM#102

    The Insane
    Originally Posted by Garneth

    If you're a TRUE gentleman you'd put one earring on your RIGHT ear.

    (For those not in the know or are unlike me, an earring in the right ear signifies you're a same-sex attracted bottom -- I still need to get one myself but my mom says no x_x)

    A genuine man is comfortable with his sexuality and doesn't give a shit what other people think of him.

    And you think you know what a genuine man is?

    Last edited by zorkuus; 2013-08-17 at 04:14 PM.

  • 2013-08-17, 04:13 PM#103

    Stood in the Blaze

    I generally think earrings on men look stupid, so I would not get

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    How did having piercings in the right ear become associated with homosexuality?

    Obeseus21

    I remember in the early 80s that left ear was straight and right ear was queer, though I knew several guys who had just their right ear pierced, and they weren’t queer. There reasoning was that they wanted an earring, and they didn’t yearn it showing in their left ear in case they got pulled over by a cop.

    md200022

    Antinor01:

    That’s not an urban legend, there is a well defined color code to show just about every preference and left side means you like that obsession as a top/active (depending on fetish) and right is bottom/passive. It’s not used as much these days, but it’s not even remotely legend.

    Most of these stories I gave as much credence as the “smoking banana peels” thing, which IIRC was a joke that some people did not fetch , so they tried to smoke peels. (Probably the placebo effect).

    Similarly, I saw the argument that most motorcycle gangs were mostly modelled on Marlon Brando’s film “The Wild One”, a case of experience imitating art imitating animation. I wonder if a lot of this sort of hanky/earring folklore was a case of people following what they “heard” was suppos

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