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And despite its popularity among thin, baby-faced white twinks, it seems to span a full range of identities. The skinny ’stache can be seen at gay bars across the city - from more normative bars playing Drag Race on Thursday nights to infamous queer clubs in Bushwick and sticky sex bars in the Village. According to Alex, a barber in Brooklyn, its two most crucial descriptors are subtle and understated. Rather, it is short (never voluminous), thin (but perhaps not always “Prince thin”), and occasionally shaved down the middle. This mustache of the moment is no ’80s Tom Selleck pornstache with enough bush to capture falling crumbs nor is it the Salvador Dalí mustache, pointy and curled at the ends. It’s petite, it’s well groomed, and like its wearer, it’s decidedly queer: the skinny mustache.