Since1982 wrote:Those were really fantastic pictures for the cause of men in skirts. No one noticed, cared or was upset. It was in Kentucky both times, a former hearth of so-called hillbilly rednecks that would kill you for not getting a haircut, much less wearing a skirt.
I'm not sure that this says all that much about whether men in skirts are accepted elsewhere in Kentucky, or even in the town of Berea.
This is almost certainly from one of the contra dance weekend festivals they have in Berea. Most of the people there would not have been from Kentucky, and those that were would have been part of the contra dance subculture, where men in skirts (along with other "alternative lifestyles") are pretty generally accepted, if still not all that common. Berea hosts a lot of gatherings and is probably pretty used to the strange ways of non-Kentuckians, but it's not clear to me how a man in a skirt would be received in, say, a local diner.
My only other data point is a Quaker gathering that happened there in something like the 1980's, where the openly gay men in the gathering got harrassed by the locals. The college officials themselves weren't happy about having gay people on their campus, and I don't think there's been a Quaker gathering there since.
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