Bald and gay

I give most of the credit for this to the gay male community.

Bald And Under Thirty

But in the 90s and 00s, gay men started normalizing and eroticizing baldness in a truly remarkable way. There are A LOT of men (myself included) who find bald men very attractive, so change how you feel about yourself and you’ll draw the attention you’re craving.

In certain very rare cases, it even became — dare I say it? Being bald isn’t keeping you single. There is no possible way anyone could ever find a bald man attractive. Going bald in my 20s was not on my game plan. Also, my hair was an unusual color, a very striking auburn.

One of my first boyfriends compared it to the color of autumn leaves. And then, of course, there was Patrick Stewart, the star of Star Trek: The Next Generationwho, incidentally, also started going bald at Suddenly, the coolest, most decent character in the entire universe was bald.

So I shaved my head like all the other balding gay guys and tried to somehow live with my fate. And there were so many bald jokes — jokes about comb-overs, and toupees, and just how sad and horrifying it was to be bald. I guess even that ancient Chinese mystic thought, No, this is just too pathetic.

And no one cared! Reply reply buncle •. My community can sometimes frustrate me to no end — with its superficial obsession with youth and looks, and its sometimes adolescent fixation on sex. Hating yourself for being bald is keeping you single. And I hate it as much as anyone when a TV show or movie seems more like a lecture than a story.

I was a freshman in college, and it was incredibly traumatic. Okay, I get the message, I thought at the time. But then a funny thing happened: in the greater society, baldness slowly became less of a joke.

The Silent Struggle Self

I think it was the previous paradigm — where bald people were always the butt of cruel jokes, or the villain, never the hero — that was giving people an inaccurate view of the world. It was exactly as painful as it sounds. It took me years to come to terms with it — and TBH, was harder than coming out as gay.

At this point, in my mids, I finally realized I had no choice but to accept reality. Then I was lucky enough to meet Michael, who always made it clear that he liked me exactly the way I was. Taking to social media Greg responded to a post on X that posed the question, "Hey Greg is it true @JesseBWatters Jesse Watters, Host of The Jesse Watters show, is bald and gay?" Humoring the fan.

It was always a go-to sight gag. Incredibly, a few months later, my check was returned uncashed. For a while in the 00s, it seemed like to be a movie action hero, you had to be bald. Plus, everyone would know I was wearing a toupee, and we all knew how pathetic that was.

I went to multiple doctors to discuss hair transplants and an equal number of specialists to be fitted for different kinds of hair pieces.