{"id":499,"date":"2009-07-31T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=499"},"modified":"2019-04-10T07:21:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T11:21:04","slug":"gaydar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=499","title":{"rendered":"Gaydar"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Updated — the original posting was uncharacteristically critical, and I changed it.<\/p>\n

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Gay men sometimes intuitively guess if someone else is gay by engaging in a guessing game using “gaydar.”<\/p>\n

What’s “gaydar?” Well, according to an article in Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Gaydar … refers to the intuitive ability to assess someone’s sexual orientation as gay, bisexual, or straight. The function of gaydar relies on usually non-verbal sensory information and intuitions. These include the sensitivity to social behaviors and mannerisms….<\/i><\/p>\n

My gaydar went off as I observed this young man texting away on his cell phone while he was seated at National Airport across from me. <\/p>\n

I did not talk to the guy, but heard him speaking when his cell phone rang. His voice had a distinctive “gay sound.” According to another website, the sound is called a lisp, though not actually a lisp. It is described thusly:<\/p>\n

The markers of this speech pattern include higher than normal pitch that changes frequently and rapidly, a breathy tone, long fricatives, and a very careful pronunciation style.<\/i><\/p>\n

He waved his other hand a lot while speaking, and generally gave off many signals that made my gaydar go off.<\/p>\n

Is there anything wrong with that? No… and I never said the guy was or was not gay. It was behaviors I was observing that are similar to behaviors I have observed in some gay men I know. It doesn’t matter if he is or is not gay. What I’m describing is that there are some behaviors that some men do that give signals that other gay men can read.
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Updated — the original posting was uncharacteristically critical, and I changed it. ————–Gay men sometimes intuitively guess if someone else is gay by engaging in a guessing game using “gaydar.” What’s “gaydar?” Well, according to an article in Wikipedia: Gaydar … Continue reading →<\/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":[20,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gay-issues","category-masculinity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","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=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}