How two gay-owned barbershops are changing the face and faces of East Austin.
A haircut is elemental to a person's look, so the business entrusted with creating that cut is incredibly important. For a queer person, the choice of where you go for a cut, color, or trim means not just finding skilled cosmetologists but also a space that welcomes and celebrates your identity. In East Austin, the owners of two barbershops are using their personal histories as gay men and hair care professionals to bring community to the forefront of the barbering experience.
Lasater's journey with Daddy's started with an intended ending: At age 46, after many years as an overseas driver for the Consulate of Singapore, he approached his employer about retiring from the business. To his shock, no retirement plan was available for overseas workers."I had a friend [who was a sex worker] ... He, too, was thinking about his future and his retirement, all that shit," Lasater recalled."He decided to go to barber school.
All that growth made the COVID-caused closure of the original Daddy's in 2021 a challenge, but not an insurmountable one. A native Texan, Lasater began to look for his shop's future in the Lone Star State. Austin made the most sense, with Lasater considering San Francisco and Austin to be basically sister cities."The whole tech industry decided to take up space in Austin," he added,"which meant so many of my clients moved to Austin ...
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