Trevor Wayne
strips down for our feature on the beauty and blemish of the
human body.
Trevor Wayne,
30
All over the Midwest
Likes:
everything that’s tattooed
Dislikes:
forehead
Trevor Wayne
likes that his body is covered with elaborate body
tattoos—even if other people don’t.
“People always say, ‘Think of what
you’re going to look like when you’re
90,’ and I say, ‘I’m not going to
walk around naked when I’m 90 anyway,’
” he says. Then, after thinking for a moment,
his face brightens and he says, “Or maybe I
will!” Heavily into punk rock in his late
teens, Wayne got his first tattoo when he came out of
the closet at age 18. Expecting intolerance from people in
the punk scene, he says he found more prejudice from
gay men. “It was like, ‘What the
hell’s wrong with you? You’re a freak.’
”
For a 30-year-old
actor-model who’s posed for photographers like Mario
Testino, Wayne is remarkably unimpressed with his
body—affably describing his shape as
“average”—and casual about going to the
gym. Even his tattoos seem like no big deal to
him—although they’re essential to some
of the men he attracts. “I feel like people turn it
into a fetish,” he says. “I’m
like, ‘Yeah, I got over that 10 years ago. Can we
talk about something else?’ ” Still,
Wayne is heartened by the fact that as the social
stigma against tattooing fades, more gay men are daring to
take the plunge. These days he’s more likely to
hear, “You don’t stand out anymore.
You’re just like everybody else,” he says.
“And that’s all I ever
wanted!”
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