New York Magazine - 19.08.2019 - 01.09.2019

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n onaMan?EverythingandNothing.

Troy Graham

, graphic designer

“By wearing a single

dangly earring, it’s my

way of saying my sexual

preference even louder

while saying ‘Fuck you’

to gender norms. I’m

trying to tell the world,

‘Hi, I’m a gay witch.’

I think if I were to ever

get the other side

pierced, I would be

entering a more vanilla

aesthetic, something

I’m not interested in.”

PhotographsbyEMILY SOTO

Paul Pierre-Louis, 

COPY EDITOR

MichaelForlenza,

ARTIST’SASSISTANT

EthanSkaates

, artist

“Asymmetryseems

like a bit of a metaphor

for nonconformity.”

There’s no longer such a thing as a “gay ear.” By Brock Colyar