How gay are you?

I like Heavy Metal
I wear Metal T-Shirts and Jeans
I like Wrestling
I used to play Soccer
I like to Party and drink lots of Crownies
I play Electric Guitar
I hang out with Guys and not Girls
I think Guys are SEXY


Not very gay at all!

 

Um,
I wear a lot of black.
I'm not in the "popular" crowd.
Most of my friends are guys.
I like girls a lot too.

 

Amazing! I like guys too!
/end melodrama

I guess I'm emotional. (Is that a stereotype? Not histrionic, of course. I just become moody at certain times.)

I don't like to play sports for competition. However, if my friends were just playing soccer, volleyball, or football for fun, I'd be glad to join. I've been known to tackle with the force of a rhinoceros...I'm not sure if that's a compliment or a detriment.

Oh. I cross my legs when I sit down, but that's usually because I need to brush my legs/feet off. Feetses of hobbitses are hard to clean. Wow. I'm not even a "Lord of the Rings" fan. Stupid Gollum...

Erm...I don't think I fit a lot of the stereotypes...so my posting is a bit pointless.
Eh. I had nothing else to do. Well, goodnight.

 

I reckon i probably fit into a few sterotypes...I would have to say that on average my musical taste is fairly steroetypically gay, with many musicals and soundtrack types songs, as well as some Madonna, and Christina Aguilera, but then again i also have DBSK (Korean pop band), Paolo Nutini, Ok Go, the Romantics, Evanescence, Coolio, and Armand Van Helden in my favourites list atm

Also, most of my best friends are female, with the exception of a few...then again, the main group i hang around with, the majority is guys (most of whom know about me)...so i guess a bit of both there....

With my movie taste, i have such a wide variety there that on some nights i fit right into the stereotype of musicals and chick flicks, but i will also go for a good action film (it has to be good tho) and i LOVE horror, especially where theres lot of blood and entertaining deaths

And i dont think i have a gay voice....but i can definateyl put it on when i want to

 

All i know is that I CANT EVEN THINK STRAIGHT.

 

...I'm not straight...but not yet entierly gay...I guess I'm curved.

 

uhmm i'm like 75% gay and 25% straight but i seem straight till you get to really know me

 

I like pink

And I like the word "fabulous":lol:

 

Uhh.. Well my favourite colour is purple and apparently it's the gay colour.
I'm tomboyish. (Well at least not girly)
Most of my friends at uni are guys. 10/12 of them are guys to be precise
And a few of my t-shirts have got rainbow print on them XD
And I can't stand most chick flicks. I'm an action movie lover.

 

Let's see...

GAY

• My hands usually move when I talk
• I enunciate, to the point that people in high school thought I had a British accent
• I like Madonna, Cher, the Backstreet Boys, the Spice Girls, Britney Spears, etc.
• I love certain musicals to death (definitely not all)
• I love "chick flicks" (although I hate the term because really all it means is a movie with a strong emotional element)
• I like subtitled films and go to film festivals
• I love dance music
• I love dancing and yes my arms go WAAAAAY above my head (at times, not all the time because then I'd be exhausted
• I understand grammar and correct other people's disturbing misuse of it
• I'm excellent at academics
• I hate watching sports except for men's gymnastics, men's swimming, and men's diving
• I hate playing sports except for swimming and badminton
• I am useless at anything that is about being "handy" around the house... and also quite disinterested in said things
• I like straight women better than straight men
• I'm usually way more comfortable hanging out with women than men unless the men are gay...
• I was excited that my friend wanted to go see the Bratz movie with me (although we do both get the irony and weren't expecting it to actually be good, just hilariously over-the-top) (two words: uh DUH!)
• I always want to see the latest "teen" movies (John Tucker Must Die, Mean Girls, etc.)
• I LOVE San Francisco
• I love city living and hate the suburbs and rural areas
• My idea of "camping" is a night at the Marriott :lol:
• I hate the outdoors just for the sake of the outdoors

NOT SO GAY

• I collect comic books (nerdy: yes; gay: not as much)
• I can program computers (I'm never sure if this is non-gay or not but it doesn't seem stereotypically gay)
• I love female singer-songwriters (Sarah McLachlan, Jann Arden, Chantal Kreviazuk, etc.) (more stereotypically lesbian than gay)
• I hate cleaning my place
• I hate opera
• I hate shopping, ESPECIALLY for shoes
• I hate people who are obsessed with fashion
• I read fantasy and sci fi
• I hate the thought of make-up
• I hate the thought of shaving/waxing one's chest
• I don't think the clubs are the be-all and end-all of creation
• I don't think that just because I'm gay I have to unthinkingly accept every single left-seeming proposition (although I am very leftist)
• I don't believe in the groupthink bullshit of gay student organisations (trust me, the STORIES I could tell you)
• I will not vote for someone just because they're gay
• I love horror movies (that don't involve torture porn like that excremental Lindsay Lohan "I Know Who Killed Me" movie)
• I don't love people who are tabloid fodder (PH, LL, etc.)
• I don't care what a marvelous shade of chartreuse you painted your dining room
• I'm not afraid to have an unpopular opinion and to voice it, loudly
• I don't go along with someone just because they're young and cute... in fact I'm usually more suspicious of attractive people than anything else, especially if everyone else fawns over them
• I don't actually love the fact that everyone thinks I look younger than I am
• {related}I do not lie about my age even though I could totally get away with it
• I don't like seeing naked guys (strippers) dance in "public" (i.e. a club)
• I don't go apeshit over Pride parades... you've seen one city's Pride parade, you've seen ALL that city's Pride parades

I'm sure there's more... but overall I'm much more gay-seeming than not, which is good, since I am gay and if people can tell that, it saves me a lot of hassle; plus then the guys who aren't as gay-seeming but are into me don't have to think, "I wonder if he's gay?"

Cuz really, if anyone wonders if I'm gay, they're pretty clueless. :lol:

 

Well, I must seem somewhat gay, because my friends came to that possibility when considering why my wife and I separated.

However, I'm a separated dad, who works in corporate Canada, and now drives a convertible - which I'd say would indicate that I'm straight.

I also appreciate the arts, don't play sports or even watch them, love to dance, and love music - including Cher, Barbra Streisand, ABBA, Erasure

 

Barbra Streisand?! That's it, dude... you're a total fag!

I love her too.

 

Lets see
I write poetry
I love shopping(but not for shoes)
I do that thing where I flap my wrists up and down(and I hate myself for it)
I am not into sports.
I like Madonna
I am compassionate
I am very mature for my age
I love cats
I am polite and proper
I care about how I look
I use Pro Active
I am excellent in school (in 3 advanced classes)
I cross my legs when I sit
I think guys are yummy
I use the word yummy
I am pretty gay:icon_bigg

 

Wait...since when is wanting to speak [grammatically] correctly a stereotype?

Most of the gay guys to whom I've spoken (har har) haven't an inkling of higher-level grammar (id est, the differences between "who" and "whom," "lay" and "lie," et cetera).
Intentionally defying the normal rules of grammar to sound "normal" seems fine, though. (At least in my opinion.) An example: saying "I don't know what to look for" instead of "I don't know for what to look." The latter is technically grammatically correct, but the former sounds better even though it ends with the preposition "for."

Maybe I've just been talking to the wrong people.

Urrgggg...why does every reply I post in this forum always have an arrogant feel? I apologize for this. I swear I don't mean to sound haughty!

 

GAY/BUTCH LESBIAN:
-I <3 my plaid 'lumberjack' jacket.
-I wear men's pants often.
-Ties are my accessory.
-Country music.
-Guy friends. Lots of guy friends.
-Beer and pick up trucks.
-Video gamer [not lesbianish but boyish?]
-Lots of 'boy' activites: computers, comic books, mountain biking, hiking, etc.
-Dislike dresses/skirts
-Action movies with lots of explosions! Yay!
-NASCAR


NOT GAY/LIPSTICK LESBIAN:
-Wears makeup daily
-Takes care of hair/appearance
-Shows off feminine figure
-Skilled in self-manicures.
-Wears heels. On occasion.
-Write poetry/music.
-Ballet/Jazz dancer
-Shopping!

 

Gay:

-Been told I have an amazing sense of fashion. I tend to agree. What's sad is that it's to the point where I can point out exactly what year each trend has gone in/out. Sad.
-I have a gay-ish voice sometimes. Not always though. More like when I'm excited.
-I enunciate everything, but that's because I did musical theater for years. People have asked me where my accent comes from, and I tell them I don't have one.
-I know how to put make-up on other people. But not on myself.
-I straighten my hair daily.
-I love techno and dance music

Not so gay:

-I work on cars, like hardcore. I've effectively rebuilt my car myself.
-I'm athletic. GASP. I used to swim competitively (till like 2 months ago), currently am a competetive water polo player, and run cross country.

 

There's quite a difference between spoken English and written English... I would NEVER not end a sentence in a preposition if I ended up sounding like "I don't know for what to look." That probably even ranks as incorrect grammar at this point since grammar tends to evolve and English is a very flexible language.

In terms of being a grammarian being a gay stereotype, I guess I'm tapping the notion of gay people being more refined and educated than straight people, especially on the male end of the spectrum. Of course, stereotypes totally contradict themselves, which is yet another indication that they're far more fiction than fact.

But I'm sorry, I will NEVER stop pointing out people's seeming complete inability to discern the proper us of it's/its and just the possessive apostrophe in general these days.

I've seen people say things like "I have lots of sock's" and then follow that with "Oh that's Johns food." AHHHH! AHHHH! I say! It's the 1990s, not the 1990's! And people even do it in SIGNS where the lettering is enormous!

As for your posts sounding haughty, you just haven't mastered self-deprecation. It makes all arrogance super-palatable.

 

Its flexibility is probably what causes mass confusion and misuse of words. The number of exceptions is pretty staggering...at least in comparison to other languages. Then again, English is basically an intangible mess of linguistic roots, so we shouldn't really be surprised.

So...have we gone back to square one with the initial question, then?

Hah...no need to apologize to me! I used to cringe when people used "who" or "whoever" as an objective pronoun -- I think I've gotten better though. But I've developed a twitch as a reaction to a person's attempt to use "whom" or "whomever" as a nominative pronoun.

Actually, it's the 2000s. Hehe...I understand what you're saying though.
It's an apostrocatastrophe.

Oh, I used to be a great champion of self-deprecation when I was...erm...a bit suicidal.
I'll just try to be a little less verbose/pretentious from now on.

You know, you're making me believe there actually are intelligent people out there...in the real world. I don't know if I'm comfortable with this idea...