Comments on: The skin game http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/03/22/the-skin-game/ the gay community's news source Wed, 22 May 2013 22:21:36 +0000 hourly 1 By: Read this weeks article about Nicky Hennerez in The Washington Blade | Tattooed Heart Studios | Custom Tattoos, Realistic Tattoos, Color, Black and Grey, Original Art http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/03/22/the-skin-game/#comment-45914 Read this weeks article about Nicky Hennerez in The Washington Blade | Tattooed Heart Studios | Custom Tattoos, Realistic Tattoos, Color, Black and Grey, Original Art Sun, 25 Mar 2012 17:19:24 +0000 http://www.washingtonblade.com/?p=37938#comment-45914 [...] The skin game March 22, 2012 By Joey DiGuglielmo on March 22, 2012 Nicky Hennerez, a gay Glen Burnie, Md., resident and tattoo artist, is on the new reality competition show ‘Best Ink.’ It debuts Tuesday night on Oxygen. (Blade photo by Michael Key) [...]

]]> By: Rocky LaBarre http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/03/22/the-skin-game/#comment-45809 Rocky LaBarre Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:44:22 +0000 http://www.washingtonblade.com/?p=37938#comment-45809 Nicky said that we gays like tattoos as much as straights. Going back 15+ years ago tattoos weren’t all that popular w the 20′s-30′s set. They didn’t call it “body art and usually if they got one…it was one lone tattoo.
It was the Gay Culture that brought tattoos into vogue. As usual we moved fashion forward.
Just as we brought waxing bodies, eyebrows, 6 pack abs into style… then the straight boys scratched their heads and said (duh) thast looks good…
and mimicked us.

The tribal tattoos are a sad side result but I’m seeing a change in the 20′s set.

Having said that, I do porn, don’t shave my body (tho my brows are clean) am hairy chested b/c I have a great body hair pattern and am gay.
OH, btw, I am an actor not an “actor” I studied at Julliard.
-Rocky LaBarre

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