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Beards: An Unshaved History

By Dr Kevin Clarke

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Dr Kevin Clarke, bestselling author of Porn - from Andy Warhol to X-Tube, turns his attention to facial hair trends in the LGBTQ community.

Kevin walks us through the various identities that members of the gay community adopt and his interpretation of those identities, such as the ‘clones' of the 1970s and their recent return. Supporting his commentary are interviews and beard facts, as well as spectacular photography that illustrates how erotic and captivating a man's beard can be.

Kevin's motivation to document the history of the beard started with his fascination with the gay clone look of the 1970s and why it suddenly became a major trend again after the clean-shaven AIDS crisis years. Kevin demonstrates what he discovered while searching for the origins on this revival of the "Golden Age of Promiscuity" in Gay Society, and then what made it spill over to mainstream straight culture.

About the Author

Dr Kevin Clarke has enjoyed an eclectic career that has stretched over the arts and entertainment industry as well as numerous academic institutes. Originally from Germany, Kevin is of Irish/German descent. He began his academic life at the Free University Berlin and the University of Milan where he studied musicology and literary history. After graduating from university Kevin worked as a journalist for a number of German newspapers as well as Playboy. He has produced a series of television programmes about composers in exile for Germany's SWR, which was a similar subject to his doctorate received from the University of Berlin. He has curated exhibitions at Gay Museum Berlin and previously edited Men, a German magazine, from 2011 to 2013. He now teaches at the Conservatory of Tilburg. 

Kevin has written other books includingGlitter and the Gay: The authentic operetta and their gay worshippersandThe White Horse Inn - On the trail of a world of a success. In 2009 Kevin gave a lecture at the University of Amiens calledThe Pornography of operettaand it kick-started his academic interest in pornography.
 
Bruno Gmünder Verlag is a German company and a book publishing house which specialises in LGBT fiction and non-fiction books as well as photo and art books for the gay community.

Essential Details

ISBN-10:3867876347

ISBN-13:978-3867876346

Format:Hardcover (already available) and softcover to be released

Available:

Online: Amazon, Bookdepository.com (worldwide free shipping)

UK: Prowler & all good book shops

Price (soft cover):£29.99, €29.99, $34.99

Release Date:October 1^st2015

Category:LGBTQ, Fashion, Culture

Publisher:Bruno Gmünder GmbH

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