Beard Liberation Front
Media Release 22nd June
Beard Week 2020 launches with a call to make lockdown beards permanent
Al Murray’s lockdown beard
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that Beard Week 2020 launches on 22nd June with the announcement of the winner of the vote for Hirsute Personality of the Year.
Beard Week aims to promote a positive image of the hirsute while underlining that pogonophobia, irrational hatred of facial hair still exists. We still await the first hirsute Prime Minister since 1902 for example.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, you sometime hear talk of ‘Peak Beard’ and beards being in decline. We are here to celebrate beards, the more the better and to demand an end to pogonophobia in employment and in social contexts too
National Beard Week 2020
Monday 22nd June: Hirsute Personality of the Year: the beard wearer who has made the positive public impact during the year. 2020 winner-David Olusoga
Tuesday 23rd June: Beard Friendly Sandwich of the Year: the sandwich that goes in the mouth not the beard. 2019: marmite peanut butter
Wednesday 24th June: Hirsute Broadcaster of the Year: the broadcaster whose beard has had the most public impact. 2019 Gary Lineker
Thursday 25th June: Pogonophobe of the Year: the most notorious beard hater of the year; 2019 Boris Johnson
Friday 26th June: Beard Friendly Employer of the Year: the field grows wider each year 2019 The BBC
Saturday 27th June: Beard of Summer 2019: the third of the four quarterly seasonal Awards 2019 Philip Wilton, Wildes Cheese
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