{"id":1011,"date":"2010-12-10T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1011"},"modified":"2010-12-10T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T09:00:00","slug":"why-do-gay-guys-like-to-wear-boots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1011","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Gay Guys Like to Wear Boots?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google never ceases to amuse me by landing visitors to this blog who enter questions like, &#8220;Why do gay guys like to wear boots?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In this instance, the question was asked by someone in Singapore, but it is a fairly common question around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, I&#8217;m a gay guy, and I like to wear boots.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; I like how they look and how they feel on my feet.&nbsp; Many men wear boots in the United States and around the world.<\/p>\n<p>In my opinion, the number of gay men who wear boots is rather small in comparison to the overall number of gay men out there.&nbsp; In fact, in my observation, it seems to me that fewer gay men wear boots than the proportion of straight men who like to wear boots.&nbsp; I think that&#8217;s because there are fewer gay men who are masculine guys.&nbsp; To me, most gay men I have met are into fashion and like to dress up, including wearing dress shoes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Masculine men, gay or straight, like boots.&nbsp; I&#8217;m one of &#8217;em.&nbsp; The boot-wearing has nothing to do with my sexual orientation.&nbsp; It has to do with the kind of guy I am &#8212; your regular &#8220;Joe Schmoe&#8221; in leather and boots.&nbsp; No big deal.&nbsp; I am who I am.&nbsp; Other guys are who they are &#8212; gay or straight, booted or not.<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:&nbsp; stop obsessing over stereotypes and perceptions in trying to connect one thing with another that really are not related.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google never ceases to amuse me by landing visitors to this blog who enter questions like, &#8220;Why do gay guys like to wear boots?&#8221; In this instance, the question was asked by someone in Singapore, but it is a fairly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1011\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cowboy-boots","category-motorcycle-boots"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}