Another unspoken context in all of this is what is commonly referred to as another form of phobia. There was a time when mustaches were macho and certain men of alternative orientation sought to out-macho everyone else. The gay biker crowd is one of the only white, middle class, urban, blue state subcultures which still sports the seriously bushy ’stache. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. So if someone gets crosswise with you for disliking the Village People you can say “Hey, I don’t care what they do with their private life. It’s just that I’m a pogonophobe.”