Gay - Defn, Meang & Synonyms |

Contents:

• GAY FACE ED MEANG
• GAY
• WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE GAY? DEFN AND MEANG OF GAY
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER MUNY
• MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH
• DEFINITIONS FOR GAYFACEGAY·FACE

GAY FACE ED MEANG

Whout beg aware of , most people n accurately intify gay men by face aloneAlthough I've always wanted this particular superhuman power, I've never been very good at tectg other men's sexual orientatn. Fdgs om a recent study published the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, however, suggt I may be unrtimatg my gaydar abili. The January 2008 study vtigated people's abily to intify homosexual men om pictur of their fac alone.

In an ial experiment, rearchers Nicholas Rule and Nali Ambady om Tufts Universy pesed onle datg s and refully selected 45 straight male fac and 45 gay male fac.

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The 90 fac were then shown to 90 participants random orr, who were asked simply to judge the target's "probable sexual orientatn" (gay or straight) by prsg a button. Surprisgly, all participants (both men and women) sred above chance on this gaydar task, rrectly intifyg the gay fac. Then, they did a send search to fd other Facebook ers who had posted photos of the gay men their own profile.

"Th, " the thors wrote, "by g photos of gay and straight dividuals that they themselv did not post, we were able to remove the fluence of self-prentatn and much of the potential selectn bias that may be prent photos om personal advertisements. Aga, the thors superimposed the male fac (this time 80 gay and 80 straight) onto a whe background.

And even wh the more strgent ntrols, the participants were able to intify the gay fac at levels greater than chance—aga even on those trials where the fac were flickered on the screen for a mere 50 lisends.

WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE GAY? DEFN AND MEANG OF GAY

For example, when shown only the eye regn ("whout brows and cropped to the outer nthi so that not even "crow's-feet" were visible"), perceivers were amazgly still able to accurately intify a man as beg gay. Curly, most of the participants unrtimated their abily to intify gay fac om the featur alone.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER MUNY

That is to say, people seem to have honed and librated their gaydar whout knowg they've done so.

But they also acknowledge that 's impossible to know om the fdgs what exactly is about the facial featur that give gays away.

MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

I was cur enough about Rule's fdgs to look up "gay face" the Urban Dictnary, a popular Web se that offers rmal, er-ntributed fns of everyday (often crass) saygs. "A man, ually homosexual, wh a distctly effete facial stcture wh some very specific featur; a strong jawle [sic] that lacks promence, space between the ey that rell people wh down syndrome [sic], and a slopg, long forehead.

DEFINITIONS FOR GAYFACEGAY·FACE

Now, that one's rather silly and sensatnalized—even polilly spect—and there's certaly no scientific evince support of the claims about the "mongoloid" featur of homosexual men's fac.

Sce effemate gay men utilize siar facial exprsns as women, they velop female agg and mcle ntractn patterns their face.

For example, gay face clus tightns around the mouth om pursg the lips, a facial exprsn mon to gay men and women—but not to heterosexual men.