Unnecessary Roughness.
Homo-journo Mike Albo recently turned his attention to the “stray,” straight men who can’t shake gay rumors. We’ll save you the trouble and go straight to the conclusion: “So why is it that all of us—the gay, the straight, the bigoted ignoramus—are hung up on cracking the code of any straight man who doesn’t look like a beer-chugging NFL fan? Maybe it’s because everyone is conditioned to feel threatened by any type of sexuality that can’t immediately be categorized. But that supposedly fine-tuned gaydar might as well be a rusty instrument from an earlier century. Because if wearing a scarf around your neck or crossing your legs like a woman were an unmistakable homo signal, then the entire male population of Europe would be out by now.” Zzzzz…. [Details]
Sorry, but dude kind of has a point. I think a lot of us (by “us”, I mean the general population) do obsess over whether a certain public figure is or isn’t, could or couldn’t be.
It gets old. That said, I am guilty of my share of snooping. Usually, it’s to find out if guys I’m interested in are available.
Mike Albo, wait, wait, and wait…….till I care.
If our society were more accepting, everyone who is gay would be “out” and there wouldn’t be all this stupid speculation. I love the responses of people like Oprah and Russell Simmons to these rumors, “If I were gay, I’d be out!”
Why doesn’t Tom Cruise ever say that?
Foofy (love that name, btw), Tommy won’t come out because he’s a scientologist + they hate The Gays.
Also, I think he’s in denial.
Yeah, he has a fair point. The constant “Is he?” and second-guessing does get tiresome.
It’s the beer-guzzling NFL TYPES I always suspect are the ‘mos. I like Alba, but he’s turned himself into a gay version of the old court Jews.
I can name two people I DO NOT want ever come out -
Tom Cruise and Michael Jackson. And I’m none too fond of Richard Simmons.
He does have a point about gaydar being obsolete. I encounter men who defy easy categorization all the time. Particularly white guys aged 28-35 who were artsy teenagers during the bisexual-chic early 90′s. My straight female friends date alot of these men. Some of them dress a bit gay, others flirt with men, and alot of them openly admit to having had sex in the distant past with male friends. And yet they all identify as straight and definitely enjoy hetero-sex. It’s been so confusing for me, trying to figure out what these guys are (once even making a pass at one of them) that eventually I gave up and threw my gaydar in the trashcan.