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We live a world where pants aren&#39;t jt piec of clothg to ver your bottom half. As we found out om Joe Srborough&#39;s vis to&nbsp;<em>The View</em>&nbsp;this week and the backlash that ensued, your pants n apparently be gay. Real gay.

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IS A SIGN OF BEG GAY IF A MALE WEARS A WHE TROERS THE UK?

Whilst Google has a few referenc on the topic (most of which date back a uple years ago), some of which do mentn some sort of implic associatn between whe troers and beg gay, I thk this belief is no more than an urban legend.

I lived London for a long time, I have several gay iends, and I have never heard them mentn this, as well as I have never seen them wear whe troers, or any other em of clothg or accsory, to monstrate their sexual orientatn.

HOW GAY ARE YOUR PANTS?

Consirg the size and prence of the London gay muny, I would put my money on the latter. As we found out om Joe Srborough's vis to The View this week and the backlash that ensued, your pants n apparently be gay. Real gay.

Like other piec of clothg, there are variatns among gen and speci of pant rangg om pleats, cut, f, lor, and recently, and thanks to polil figur like Joe Srborough and Anthony Weer, gay or not gay has bee a termg characteristic. Srborough's sartorial choice of wearg salmon-lored chos ed people like Joy Behar and nservative blogs like Townhall to dub his pants homosexual. Siarly, Anthony Weer's choice of bright-red pant at a DOMA lg rally earlier this summer, and Weer's own ments about them prompted The New York Tim's Lawrence Down to ask: "Is he really sayg he hasn’t had time to change out of his gay pants?

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"Weer, gog by what he's told women the past, is obvly not gay. But this brgs to this necsary qutn: What mak pants gay? Is the pant or the wearer that mak gay?

In January of last year, Barney's Simon Doonan ma the assertn that animate, particularly food, n be gay. Doonan said that gay food is lighter, brighter, more artistic, art-directed and lbian or heterosexual food is heavier, droopier, burlier.

To that, Srborough noted this morng that he believ that lor has a termg effect on the gayns of a pant and that the Nantucket Red pantone ma his pants homosexual. " Weer asked a gay mpaign staffer. "Usg those metrics: f, cut, burls, and lor, we've e up wh a pletely unscientific Ksey sle of pant homosexualy.

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