Contents:
- A JOURNEY INTO THE WORLD OF GIRAFF, A SUBCULTURE FOR VERY TALL GAY MEN
- TALL GAYS (6'4" AND ABOVE) TELL ME...
A JOURNEY INTO THE WORLD OF GIRAFF, A SUBCULTURE FOR VERY TALL GAY MEN
6'10" Zachary Bartels (Far Right) is one of the tallt gay guys out there! It said: "Mt be at least this tall to ri this ri, " as well as the name of the group: the Tall Gay Agenda. Even actor Evan Hoyt Thompson, the -founr of the Tall Gay Agenda, told me he's not entirely sure where me om.
Thompson (6 feet 4 ch tall), his then-boyiend-now-hband Addison Smh (also 6 feet 4 ch tall) and their mutual iend Jt Ocean (6 feet 2 ch tall) were always hyperaware of their shared elevatn when they would go out on the NYC gay bar scene.
One night, they joked to some iends that they were the "Tall Gay Agenda, " and the TGA's first seed was didn't ci to grow that seed to an actual event until two years later — a cisn that, tertgly, was fluenced by a muny of short gay men. "The spiratn me om 'Runt, ' [a] party that ed to happen at Nowhere Bar for short gay guys, " Thompson said. It was really his ia to do somethg siar, so we cid to have a gay bar takeover for guys that were 6 feet 2 ch and taller.
TALL GAYS (6'4" AND ABOVE) TELL ME...
While rearch has shown that tall straight guys have an overwhelmg advantage the datg market, a 2014 study about the height preferenc of gay men suggts that this privilege don't exactly transcend sexual orientatn. The thors nclud that 1) height is often perceived as an ditor of domance, and 2) the majory of gay men jt want a partner whose height is more or ls parable to their the study, taller men tend to be sired most by men who sought a more domant parter, while shorter on were most sired by those seekg more submissive partners.
"While the fdgs on domance might suggt that some gay upl subtly subscribe to certa genr rol typilly ascribed to straight upl (i. Perhaps 's a ls severe example of the "boyiend tws" phenomenon, which gays are creepily attracted to men who uld be their clon: Lots of gay men are lookg for someone who's (lerally) on their level.