Beware: All of The Thgs Are Gay

Contents:

• GAY BOTTOM MEN'S CLOTHG
• BEWARE: ALL OF THE THGS ARE GAY
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY SIGNALG, OM HANKY S TO THAT 'WHAT GAY GUYS ARE ACTUALLY LIKE' VIO
• HOW GAY ARE YOUR PANTS?

GAY BOTTOM MEN'S CLOTHG

Skny jeans: Gay. Also gay:Drkg 'tisMan-purs of any kdLattMacchiatosFrappucosAnythg that isn't a cht hair-ducg regular cup of that end, removg said cht hair, or any other hair. (Alopecia sufferers: Automatilly gay.

Y, those are all fely on the homo list. 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! " 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.

BEWARE: ALL OF THE THGS ARE 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?

A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY SIGNALG, OM HANKY S TO THAT 'WHAT GAY GUYS ARE ACTUALLY LIKE' VIO

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. 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.

HOW GAY ARE YOUR PANTS?

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?

"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.