No chest hair, no mustaches, no feathered hair on anyone. And the fashions... no wide ties, no pastels, very little flannel, no pants that come up to mid-torso.
I got the feeling that Ryan Murphy wanted the men to look "hot" (by today's standards, anyway) rather than look authentic.
First I think you are stereotyping and second that is the way they dressed in the early 80's. There was a brief period after the cowboy phase and before the Madonna phase, when a subdued conservative style was in. I always like to point to Richard Gere's outfits in American Gigolo as an example.
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/BxzYW7p9gZ8/maxresdefault.jpg
http://317am.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/joke-Richard_Gere_American _Gigol.jpg
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>> There was an extra or two in the Baths scene that looked
>> exactly like that stereotype you were looking for.
You can call it a stereotype, but the style I speak of was all-pervasive at that time, and would not have been seen in just one or two out of a large group. The gay community even had a term for it, "Castro clone".
You mean, because they didn't look all "Saturday Night Fever"-ish and really look like gay stereotypes, with "welcome mats" of chest hair, gold bling and stuffed crotches?? I lived in the early '80s and all the guys I knew wore nicely fitting jeans and soft shirts, like Felix wears in the "first date" sequence...
When Matt enters Ned's apartment and strips out of his blue jacket, he looks exactly like a photo of John Travolta...