Cultural Shock Experience

There are similar events to Friday night bar parties in heterosexual culture, but these are fairly tame in comparison to what I witnessed at The Rooster. First of all, the dress and makeup of the clientele, all male but for about a dozen or so women who were obviously lesbians, were quite different. In my own life, such parties entail the normal outfits of jeans, dress slacks, dress shirts, sneakers or what have you. At The Rooster, there were many men dressed in leather pants and black boots with only chains around their neck or leather collars, some with spikes emanating from them. Likewise, many of the men had multiple tattoos, piercings, and others body modifications. Some were traditional but others were distinctly gay, like the one tattoo I saw on one manÆs back that was the gay pride flag in color. As Pitts (443) notes, body modification offers subcultures an added outlet for expression and independence in mainstream society: ôBy creating anomal

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