We gays are legends, and with legends come myths.
On Reddit, r/askgaybros users are revealing which myths about gay people they once believed.
“I once heard everyone who loves Yoshi from Mario always turns out to be gay,” the original post wrote. “I use Yoshi in everything and even in Smash Bros., so when I first heard that I really believed it. What are your stories?”
(“I personally always choose Princess Peach,” one Redditor replied with a shrug.)
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Here’s a selection of the upvoted responses, edited for grammar and readability:
“If you sit with your legs crossed behind you, i.e under your chair, you’re gay.”
“That all gays were feminine and super extravagant.”
“Getting ears pierced on a man, if one on the right, straight. If two, bi. If left only, definitely gay. If you put them in one at a time and you’re bi, the one you put in first says if you are a top or bottom.”
“That gays were just destined to be more put together, good looking, have fabulous friends, etc. Finding out that’s not true firsthand.”
“If your second toe was longer than your first, you’re gay.”
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By the way, a 2015 BuzzFeed video tackled some of the more pernicious myths about LGBT folks: that gay people are more promiscuous than straight people, the gay parents produce gay children, that gay people can’t be religious, etc. Check out our coverage of the vid here.
Mack
I see the sex trolls are alive and well on Queerty.
Harley
They are pharmaceutical reps trying to sell more antibiotics.
Heywood Jablowme
Anyone ever hear this one? “Any guy whose hair parts in the middle is gay.” Everyone at my high school seemed absolutely convinced of this “fact” – which I’ve never heard anyplace else. (Btw my hair didn’t and doesn’t part in the middle!)
Harley
I graduated high school in 1980 and that was the style back then. Parted in the middle with wings on both sides covering the ears.
Jim
I lived in Missouri and went to college across the river in Illinois . It was said it was the right ear on one side of the river and the left on the other said you were gay. I don’t remember which was which. I still didn’t get any
michel_banen
Some of these indeed are gay myths that I heard as well.
chase_boston
not myths really more like symbols,sidgils and rituals for order followers (Clowns in either duality) to set up false flags and human blood sacrifice for our controlled evolution or aka eugenics project
RIGay
Some of these are a hoot! I remember the earring myth – a few years before I came out, I had the BIGGEST hidden crush on Scott Valentine’s character “Nick” from “Family Ties”. On the show, he always wore one pierced earring, always something dangling, and it was the LEFT ear. That was my private fantasy and I found dwelling on him while having sex with me fiancee at the time; let’s just say – that image of him kept me going.
After we split up (gosh, it JUST was not working out!) and she gave me back the engagement ring, I had the stone set into a mount and had my left ear pierced with it. Wore that for a dozen or so years.
RIGay
Don’t forget the times we were growing up in; a lot of these “myths” were propagated by bullies in an attempt to single out someone to harass (I was recipient of many attacks). Could be carrying your books in your arm and not at your side (elementary school). Parting the hair in the middle (I’ve heard that one in Junior HS). How you dress (HS). If you style your hair (Jr. College, but that one was quite accurate!). And finally, if you keep the “International Male” catalog on your desk at work.
chase_boston
an exercise in suffering for controllers to divide and harness : I am sorry you believed it : to bad we still do. fake is.rael & love is not pretending
Matthewnow
I always you were gay if you took in your hiney (spelling?)
Man About Town
I remember hearing if you drank beer from a bottle you’re str8, & from a glass you’re gay. That one still cracks me up!
baggins435
That gays were into fashion.
That gays were effeminate.
Which ear to wear the earring in.
All gays were into anal sex.
The hair part.
Which rear pocket you wear your billfold.
Broadway show tunes.
Gays didn’t work on cars or play sports.
Gays had sex with ANY guy who was willing.
I worked a job where we had to change into company furnished overalls to work and shower (gang showers) at the end of the shift. One young guy showed up one day with both nipples pierced. He was teased mercilessly by the older guys who told him only gays pierced both nipples. The next day he only had the left piercing still in. So, they teased him that left was Bi.
I talked to a straight guy who thought if a guy ever touched another guy’s junk, even once as a kid, that he was gay. Also it was “gay” for a guy to cum on himself when masturbating. And, god forbid, he kisses the woman who just gave him a BJ before she used mouthwash.
Yet, all of the bro hugs, ass and crotch grabbing, and anything else going on in a locker room, is perfectly straight.
JanDivine
As a child I thought all gay men were drag queens, For years I agonized about how I was going to make this transition because I knew that wasn’t me, but I knew I was gay.
CityguyUSA
The true test is who got the Undergear Catalog and glued the pages together.