A Question for the Gay Community

[thisAngelBites]

I can almost always spot the gay man (men) in the room. Maybe it's due to all the experience, having grown up in a family that owned a florist for many years - almost everyone who worked there was gay.

I don't know how I know, and I have tried to analyse it. I think that in general the brain recognises patterns that it is not even aware it is recognising. So when you have enough patterns (as gay people do, and as perhaps as some people who spend a lot of time with gay people do), you can mostly identify, even if you are not sure how you do it.

[Times Roman]

I can almost always spot the gay man (men) in the room. Maybe it's due to all the experience, having grown up in a family that owned a florist for many years - almost everyone who worked there was gay.

I don't know how I know, and I have tried to analyse it. I think that in general the brain recognises patterns that it is not even aware it is recognising. So when you have enough patterns (as gay people do, and as perhaps as some people who spend a lot of time with gay people do), you can mostly identify, even if you are not sure how you do it.

yeah, im surprised. I remember this one time, years ago, I had this new job. Talking to this one bloke, and we were hitting it off. So we get kind of chummy as the weeks roll on. Talked about maybe having a beer after work a few times. We were talking again, and I forget the details, but I think I remember him getting a call, and he gets in this little spat over the phone with is girlfriend. then he gets off the phone, and he says something like "tony can be such a little bitch sometimes". Tony? Yeah, he's my girlfriend. Didn't you know I was gay? uh, no.....

This surprised me, although I'm sure a gay person would have picked up on it almost right away. this guy was not feminine at all, and didn't have any overtly gay mannerisms. So I'm not sure how I could have known.

See, Shol'va would have picked up on it immediately, I'm sure.