Maybe you've seen the recent vio that purports to show "what actually happens when gay guys see other gay guys and straight people aren't around." While I n't nfirm or ny the accuracy of the clip's subject matter (still wag on clearance om the Gay Agenda), I n say that s edy is rooted a rich…
Contents:
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY SIGNALG, OM HANKY S TO THAT 'WHAT GAY GUYS ARE ACTUALLY LIKE' VIO
- HOW TO TELL IF YOUR GUY FRIEND IS GAY
- FLAG THIS! GAY MEN SYMBOLS AND MEANG BEHD THEM
A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY SIGNALG, OM HANKY S TO THAT 'WHAT GAY GUYS ARE ACTUALLY LIKE' VIO
* gay guy signals *
Maybe you've seen the recent vio that purports to show "what actually happens when gay guys see other gay guys and straight people aren't around. " While I n't nfirm or ny the accuracy of the clip's subject matter (still wag on clearance om the Gay Agenda), I n say that s edy is rooted a rich history of signalg, flaggg, and other forms of non-verbal munitn between gay Pulls a CharlottvilleThe vio fds actors/edians Brian Jordan Alvarez, Stephen Guaro, and Mch Silpa nng to one another their apartment buildg's regnizg one another's gayns, and realizg they're a space utterly void of heterosexualy, the three men lnch to some light nway……'80s face-molg 101……talog at-hangg……and low-key Bernatte-ery……wh a llective "Bnch!
HOW TO TELL IF YOUR GUY FRIEND IS GAY
There are lots of reasons why you might want to know if your iend is gay. There are some important thgs that you have to unrstand about this suatn before gog forward, however. Someone's sexualy is highly plex and highly... * gay guy signals *
" at the unrlyg tensn of the scene stems om the ia that the men are only ee—or perhaps safe—to unleash their purt gay selv the pany of others like them. Halper wr How to be Gay.
)The need to navigate one's inty through different social suatns, mixed wh the sire for regnn, has led gay men (and women, obvly, but this article is foced on the male si of this phenomenon) to velop subtle, often wordls methods of munitn wh others the of the systems have been historilly ed to broadst sexual sir, like the hanky , which saw s peak age the 1970s and '80s. In Gay New York, Gee Chncey c red neckti as one of the major "fairy" signifiers of the 1890s, and the 1930s there was "practilly a homosexual monopoly" on dark brown and gray sue sho the 1930s. Physil mannerisms,, why do gay men ntue to create and cultivate the systems of mostly non-verbal munitn wh each other?
I thk a lot of has to do wh the fact that gayns don't e wh hered physil tras or other visible intifiers on the body; we're forced to create our own. If he is gay, do this mean your gaydar is returng a posive but you are uncerta if the sensor data is rrect? Or you know he is gay but jt n blurt out "I'm terted you!
FLAG THIS! GAY MEN SYMBOLS AND MEANG BEHD THEM
If the first (gaydar is broken) then I would suggt talkg about known gay clubs/bars - not all the time, but as a ht drop.
Now Sonny's bar is not The Buffalo - everybody, cludg my nyg great grandmother who is very straight and narrow and shouldn't know, knows that "those people" go to the Buffalo - Sonny's is the one that most gay men know about, but the straight folk haven't figure out s one of those kds of bars. Maybe (if you have your area) Ask him if he ever watched the edy rout on that new tv channel lled Logo There is some good edy hours, and I like the click list (mic vio program) (( Yeah strange for a straight man to watch the "gay channel")). Anyway, what I am sayg is select a subject that only gays your area would be the know about - intifiers like a certa books store (no not the adult books store, the one that sells GLBT books, ffee cups and rabow flags) and brg up nversatn.
If he is fely gay he will know about them and if he has a bra cell he will figure out what you are dog. If he is straight and different about the gays, eher he will not know about the plac/thgs or he will know.