This Free City sheet is a comic, confrontational defense of long hair as a mark of beauty, freedom, and nonconformity, turning the period’s obsession with male hair length into a satire on sexual anxiety, social control, and straight society’s moral panic. Written in a deliberately mocking, conversational voice, it argues that hostility to “long-hairs” reflects jealousy and repression more than principle, while linking barbers, shorn respectability, and conventional masculinity to a broader culture of conformity. The page’s whimsical yet slightly menacing graphic border—serpentine forms, hybrid creatures, and ornamental fantasy figures—reinforces the text’s blend of camp, provocation, and countercultural style. |