If you're going to have a beard, have a cute one. Would you rather he had Ruth Messinger? She can grow a beard.
I was not talking about a literal beard.
The term beard is used to refer to women who go out with homosexual men to deflect suspicions that they are homosexuals.
Bess Meyer did this for Ed Koch.
Rock Hudson,Sal Mineo & Liberace back in the day had their beards.