Somehow, in 2024, people are still debating guys wearing nail polish
don’t like it when men paint their nails, even here in the year of our Lord 2024 Anno Domini.Subscribe to our newsletter for a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.A post shared by BOYS IN POLISH ™ (@boysinpolish)We saw the homophobic hate when Duke college basketball star Jared McCain and newly-minted Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams showed off their nail art—not that the two athletes are letting the gay slurs get to them.“I like to get manicures and pedicures.
I take care of my body,” McCain told Complex last year. “Some of these people hate, I don’t know if they do take care of their body.
So, I just like getting the color, and it’s always been myself. I’ve always been big on just being yourself in any situation possible.
And never letting somebody tell you what you can and can’t be. So doing the painted nails is kind of a part of me now.”He also delivered a poignant speech about why he’s unapologetically himself.You’d hope that by now we’d let people do whatever they wanted with their bodies—and that we’d have freed ourselves of the binary thinking that claims men can’t use cosmetics.A post shared by BOYS IN POLISH ™ (@boysinpolish)Even gays can be narrow-minded about other men’s gender expression, promoting the same kind of misogyny that results in femmephobia.
