Add to that such already well-established roles as master and slave, dom and sub, plushies and furries (those attracted to stuffed animals or dress like school mascot variants) - and you have one very colorful patch of humanity.
And then along came puppies and handlers, and soon after, the daddy/boy dynamic appeared. There were so few in fact, that caricatures of those roles seemed to fit neatly in one vocal group: the Village People.īear culture changed all that. In the cold dawn of the ’80s, there weren’t many choices for men who prefer the company of men. Over the last 30 years, the ways gays self-identify has diversified almost exponentially.