Beard gay
The sad reality of many bearded relationships
Season 2 of Made in Heaven, created by Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti, addresses relevant affectionate relationship issues faced in our population in each of its 7 episodes. In episode 2 there is a brief, yet not-so-subtle reference to an issue that exists but is not spoken about enough in society.
Karan (played by Arjun Mathur), one of the main characters, is gay. His mother is on her death bed and claims Karan’s sexual orientation is the reason for her reaching there. In this episode, Karan is asked by his masi (aunt) to marry a girl to appease his estranged mother and fulfill her wish to notice him married before she loses her battle to cancer.
When he responds by saying that he can’t get married to a teen because he is gay, she counters it by saying that she is his “type”, and that and he should adjust for the sake of his dying mother, so that she can rest in peace.
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I am glad Karan refused. But many succumb to this pressure. In trendy parlance, such a relationship or marriage would be called a “bearded” one. A beard is someone who marries (or d
Fay Sampson’s Family History
This site is a work-in-progress. There is a massive amount to cover. I have included both male and female lines, and some proceed back 30 generations. Keep coming support for more.
I have numbered the generations working backwards from my own as (1)
Lee Tree
RICHARD GAY and JANE BEARD (6)
RICHARD GAY is the son of RobertGay and Elizabeth Gallen, baptised in Sandford, a village nearby Crediton, on 24 October 1750.
Before he was five years mature, his family left their fertile rural parish for St Thomas. This was not yet part of Exeter, but a separate parish on the opposite bank of the Exe. They evidently fell into poverty, because in 1755 the St Thomas Overseers of the Poor issued an order for Richard, his two older brothers and their parents to be removed back to Sandford.
Nevertheless, Richard did grow up in an Exeter suburb. The family moved almost immediately to St David’s, outside the North Gate of the city. In December 1757, when Richard was seven years old, a child brother was born. Before the month was out, both the baby and Richard’s mother were dead.
JANE BEARD was baptised in St David’s, Exeter, on
Women pay in ‘bearded’ relationships
One definition of the synonyms beard is found mostly in slang dictionaries, though the New Oxford Dictionary of English added the alternative definition a several years ago.
A beard is defined as a chick who dates, or marries, a gay man to provide cover for the man’s homosexuality. The designation also applies to a man who does the same for a female homosexual woman. Current chatter at ABC.com is filled with beard comments concerning Tom Cruise’s new lady passion. Cruise has long denied he is gay, but the rumors persist that Cruise dates and marries beautiful women, these so-called beards, to quash speculation about his sexual orientation.
A subtext to the Jim West story is the fact that West, who acknowledges he is a gay man, has also dated women, and married one. I know some of these women. I haven’t talked to them about this, and I don’t intend to. It’s none of my business.
But it has stirred for me this whole business of the “beard phenomenon” and the harm it does to women who assume the role of beard (unwittingly or not), the men who look for it out, and our society that colludes in the deception, rather th
Def'n/Etymology of "beard"
Mojo1
I was just talking to co-workers and they said that some hollywood starlet was a “beard”. I asked and got the defn’ that it meant she was a “sham” wife for a same-sex attracted guy.
-is this term commonly used?
-can it put on to a “sham” husband of a lesbian?
Why “beard”? I can reflect of 5 words off the highest of my top that would depict the situation improved than “beard”.
system2
Yes, a beard is any cover, which is how it originated–like a real beard, it covers things up and provides a disguise.
Gail3
Gay guys are not considered very masculine.
Facial hair is seen as masculine. So, anytime a female is seen with a man a lot, people suppose they are having sex. This will make the guy seem more masculine, (bearded) i.e. straight.
Elaine on Seinfeld was once a “beard” if I recall correctly.
Gail
“Any major dude with half a heart surely will inform you, my friend–
Any minor planet that breaks apart falls together again…”
-Steely Dan
Mojo4
Yes, a beard is any cover, which is how it originated–like a real beard, it covers things up and provides a disguise.
but a beard is genuine, even if it is for a disguise. And of