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Gender-fluid pop star Dorian Electra is ready to cut a tache through life and the music industry
Words Thomas Stichbury
Moustaches may have made a comeback, but they’re still a tricky look to pull off. For every hipster channelling Errol Flynn with their sword-like swishes, or hot daddy sprouting sexy Tom Selleck-esque sluggers just screaming to be tugged, there is a poor unfortunate soul shuffling along with what would appear to be a hairy caterpillar squatting above his top lip. However, some of the world’s greatest queer icons — from Freddie Mercury and Prince to fabulously filthy filmmaker John Waters — have tackled the tache and won.
Gender-fluid singer Dorian Electra, therefore, is in exceptional company then with their artfully drawn-on ‘taches.
“I love the moustache because I do a full face of super femme, over-the-top make-up, big drawn-on lips, rosy cheeks and so on, and still feel grounded by these two little lines above my lip that say, ‘MALE. MAN. MASCULINE’, in a very clearly communicable but cartoonish way,” they explain. “I love the juxtaposition of extremes. That’s definitely one of the guiding principles in my art.”