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Tattoos indicate different things to different people. TLC explores the phenomena of tattooing in both the gay and straight life in “NY Ink.”

The reality-TV format of “NY Ink” peeks into the Wooster Concourse Social Club, the premier tattoo establishment of New York Metropolis.

Of course the club is a gallery of sorts and as such, heaped with canvases of heavily inked graze. Gay tattoo artist and floor manager, RoBear, is no exception.

RoBear, aka “RoBeast” on his bad days, took a unite of minutes on a cold, Manhattan afternoon to talk about “NY Ink” and the contradictory messaging that face a gay man in the often testosterone poisoned world of tattoos.

It’s a points that tattoos moved past drunken sailors and low-life emotion decades ago. Now, full-on tattoo sleeves run the gamut, adorning celebrities and cons way. Tattooing is mainstream. It’s official. But still, there’s an awkward subculture to the world of inked coat, a subculture that has perhaps not caught up.

Source: San Diego Gay & Lesbian News

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