My Final Proposal

My final proposal involves my anxiety from getting a haircut as a Gay Black man.I love getting haircuts and getting one has always made me feel like a brand new person and just puts me in a good mood, and it typically does for most men when they leave the barbershop .One of the major anxieties I use to have growing up as a kid was getting a haircut, it’s actually very common within the Gay the community for kids, specially gay males to develop anxiety from going to the barbershop , most of it due to the barbershop being such a toxic masculine environment. The conversations of sexualizing women and the homophobia runs rampant in barbershops. Now that am older and a grown man most of that anxiety has gone away, but I still have some form of anxiety till this day. If my barber that I feel comfortable with is not at the barbershop I may hold out from going to the barbershop and getting a cut until he comes back. I also don’t like going to other barbershops for the simple fact of the anxieties that may come back being at a new barbershop. I been with the same barber for over 8 years, and I feel comfortable enough to have conversations about my dating life. A lot of gay guys feel like they must put on this facade and code switch to appear “Not Gay “and be as feminine when going to barbershops and that is something I want to touch on and show people that perspective. a business.