GENDER IDENTITY: The New York Times Wants You To Know That These Menswear Bloggers Are Totally Not Gay

Probably as a lead-up to the upcoming Men's Fall 2012 shows in Europe, and the market shows in New York next week, the Thursday Styles is spotlighting a group of influential bloggers in the burgeoning menswear arena, and the first thing they want you to know is that they are totally straight. Seriously, it's in the title.

Straight Talk: A New Breed of Fashion Bloggers makes sure to describe the five gentleman behind Mister Mort, The Marcus Troy Experience, Jake Davis Blog, A Continuous Lean, Sartorially Inclined and How to Talk to Girls at Parties and  as "hyper-masculine dudes" who look at men's clothes the way their red-blooded brethren follow sports. No mincing Queer-Eyed queens here, thank you very much. These manly men are making fashion safe for regular guys, so you keep your sequined Dolce & Gabbana blazer away from here, Brad Goreski.

Is it a coincidence that this article comes on the heels of GQ's Reblog This: The Oral History of Menswear Blogging which features many of the same players? Make of that what you will. GQ's more in-depth piece focuses less on the sexual identities of the bloggers, but illuminates us more fully regarding the truckloads of swag that these guys are pulling in, which the Times only touches upon. Well, damn!
*Note to designers: UPS comes to our house too. We'll be Instagramming and Tweeting next week from Project and Capsule. Just sayin'.

Straight Talk: A New Breed of Fashion Bloggers (NYTimes)
Reblog This: The Oral History of Menswear Blogging (GQ.com)