Can You Look Gay?

[Empathizer]

Yes. But I mean the slimmer version in the first season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

 

[Pye]

Vincent D'Onofrio:
was he the guy that ate the bullet and full metal jacket?

Or the version that played "Thor" in Adventures in Babysitting

 

[Bbucko]

I'm not quite sure I follow you. Are you saying that when you let your face muscles slack you look gay and menacing at the same time? Or are you saying you look your least gay when you do this?

When my face went limp, and purposefully let my eyes glaze over, I lost whatever "gay face" I might otherwise have exhibited walking down the street. Though I didn't intend to appear menacing, I noticed people crossing the street to avoid passing me with a redundant frequency, which I found droll (to say the least).

There's a specific gait one assumes when walking down a busy sidewalk in Boston or NYC: long strides, shoulders forward, head down, eyes up. It's the gait of someone who uses his/her feet for transportation rather than a leisurely stroll; I perfected it while still a teenager. I guess it can be intimidating to some out-of-town shopper/stroller/tourist, but at 5'6 and 150 pounds, really present no real threat: just someone with a place to go.

 

[B_RedDude]

I think it's a matter of the individual's consciousness (obviously, in the existential sense)

If behavior and/or learned, it begs the question: why would gay men behave in a way that made them look gay?

 

[thirteenbyseven]

A sever case of what I call "gay face"

Jonathan Harris and the Robot were my absolute favorites on Lost In Space. I had the pleasure of meeting Harris one weekend in 1978 when my parents dragged me down to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion- the old home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic- to force-feed culture into their child. After sleeping through Chopin's something-something in b-flat minor, we went out for intermission prior to the L.A. Phil performing the feature composition for the evening, Antonin Dvorak's New World Symphony.

And there he was, Jonathan Harris a.k.a. Dr. Smith!!!! My parents were totally clueless as to why I was making a big fuss over this audience member strolling by himself in the lobby. As I recall we walked over to him and introduced ourselves; he seemed truly flattered that an 8 year-old had recognized him. He even replied "you have a keen ear, my lad" when I asked him if he was doing a voice-over on Battlestar Galactica.

When we drove home I told Mom and Dad the L.A. Philharmonic orchestra was cool but not as fun as meeting Dr. Smith.

 

[Mickactual]

I dunno how easily a str8 person can identify a gay person - but as a gay man, I can spot another of my own kind from two city blocks away. I'm a firm believer in "gaydar", and I definitely possess an acute sense of it.
Let's give Mick a test and see if he passes. We'll look at the three attached photos:
Example one - Looks gay? Check. Is gay? Check.
Example two - Looks gay? Check. Is gay? Check.
Example three - Looks gay? Check. Is gay? Check.

Yep - acute gaydar.