“I don’t really attach sexuality to clothing,” said Kam, an artist who identifies as straight.
Phillip Picardi, editor in chief of Out magazine, quipped, “I am about as gay as the day is long, so both of my ears are my gay ears.”
Nevertheless, today’s single dangly earring tends to resist identitarian labels, and many of the sources interviewed said they hadn’t thought about the “gay ear” code since college, or public high school in the 90s.
