Sometimes it’s isolating to be out as gay at work. And sometimes, you find yourselves in like company.
Yes, it seems some lines of work are more gay-male-friendly than others, and Redditors listed those professions in a recent r/askgaybros thread when one person asked, “We all know the stereotypes, but what occupation do you think has the most gays?”
Some of the jobs listed below won’t be surprises—again, stereotypes!—but others might throw you for a loop. Here are Redditors’ responses from the thread, edited for readability.
Flight attendants
“Having been one, I can say this is 100% accurate.”
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“I know, like, 3 online, lol.”
“Please return your flight attendant to the upright position for landing. Thank you.”
“Actually know a straight guy that is one. And he even met his girlfriend via the job.”
Public relations reps
“Public relations 100%.”
“Just @ me next time”
Performing artists
“Haha, yeah, I’m a classical singer, and there’s a good portion … maybe classical dancers even more.”
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Paramedics
“There are a surprising number of gays in EMS.”
Starbucks baristas
“My Tinder experience would make me say wannabe actors and Starbucks baristas.” (“But you repeat yourself,” joked another user.)
“Starbucks baristas, lol. Edit: ‘cause I was one.”
Pharmacists
“Don’t know why, but every drug store seems to have at least one obviously gay guy.”
Nurses
“You caught me”
“Yep! Back when I was single and dating, probably close to 50% of the people I went on dates with were nurses.”
Scientists
“In my experience, there are quite a few gays in science. Particularly in academia.”
“My lab had a team of 10, and it was 50-50.”
“There’s actually research about how gay men excel academically and are overrepresented in academia!”
Chefs and cooks
“We had more queer people in my culinary class than straight white men. It was funny when they realized we could be more vulgar than them.”
“Yes, and there is a long history of this, apparently. My goddess Julia Child was worried gay men would do to culinary arts what they did to ballet. She didn’t seem to mind gay people [citation needed] but was worried that their presence would scare off straight men and hinder what she hoped would be a renaissance of cooking in America.”
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Republican lawmakers
“Republican politician.”
“Republican lawmaker.”
“Republican senators.”
Organists
“I’m an organist. Rarely do I meet straight male colleagues.”
“My music school friend said the same thing. He’s never met a straight male organist, and none of his male organist friends know any straight male organists either.”
“If you google ‘gay organist’ the first result is a quora post asking why so many organists are gay.”
“I dunno, most of the gay guys I’ve met suck on organs.”
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jt1990
I’m not one bit surprised flight attendant is a ‘gay’ occupation. I encountered many news stories during the over-blown pandemic of entire flights being unloaded over those dumb masks. Each time I said to myself, the flight attendant had to be a crazed, power-tripping (homosexual) Leftist!
BennyTheHill
Republican lawmakers
“Republican politician.”
“Republican lawmaker.”
“Republican senators.”
Left-wing disinformation obviously.
I hope the new owner of Twitter suspends accounts with this kind of stuff, just like the left-wingers at Twitter did this often to conservatives. 😉
HeWhoIs
Guess what Mr Bigot? That wasn’t cows cream in your coffee.
THAT Steve
The difference between Democrat and Republican taste in males is the latter seems to prefer below teh age of consent.
GaysForTrump
THAT Steve.
You also forgot one major difference. The ‘formers’ taste in men: fueling black men with meth until they overdose and die…
Oh the predatory Democratic ways.
Fname Optional Lname
Fox news has really done some work on some people here obviously. Your loyalty will ensure a life of hatred and fear.
mailliw110
So you believe something you read on the internet?
jt1990
@THAT Steve never knew Joe Biden and Bill Clinton were Republicans? Bubba Clinton did allow his victims to hit puberty before grooming or assaulting them, to point out his better qualities. LOL nice try!
MacAdvisor
How many straight waiters in San Francisco does it take to change a light bulb?
Both of them.
THAT Steve
Thanks! That’s already gone on my family’s text thread.
BStewart27
I’m always shocked when I meet a straight male organist, but at least two of those have cornered me in the blower room.
gaym50ish
Hairdressers and fashion designers didn’t even make the list?
CatholicXXX
They’re on the Reddit post. I think q left them out because they’re a given/boring.
Just like backup dancers and ballet dancers.
HeWhoIs
Who left the closet door open. Seems to be a lot of right wingers reading a Queerety article.
crazyoldman
I retired from 45 years as a nurse in 2019
CashLoretta
We’re are the florists on this list? I’ve been in the business for about 30 years and have only met a generous handful of straight men in the business.
JeffBaker
LOL! I was talking to a Gay organist before I met (and fell for!) my husband!
white-queer-african
Only three comments from “we all know who”? Three different screennames.
* MIA, our hated troll? Interesting how the dumb bitch never comments or defend the indefensible. Maybe can’t find anything on Google to copy and paste?
Going forward I will only refer to “IT” as BTH Copy & Paste!
Life is bliss on the east coast of South Africa.
LOL.LOL.LOL.
* And yes I have copied and pasted the above from a previous post of mine. Trigger the unhinged bitch!
jcool
i’ve noticed this as his pattern. remember when MissTerry was here every day to annoy? remember SamB? they repeat the same crap, completely off the subject of the article concerned, until everyone else gets bored and ignores her. no attention = no fun, so they disappear and create a new screen name. benny is getting bored, bringing back oldies like gaysfortrump, will soon be replaced by a new name.
Scribe38
RN: I wish there were more gays. I’m always the only one. I’ve worked with a good number of male nurses, but they’ve been str8
1898
cruise ship workers
I live in a port city that sees a lot of cruise ships in the summer months. whenever a cruise ship is here, scruff and grindr are suddenly loaded with cruise ship workers 🙂
1898
now that i think about it, i also know a lot of gay guys who work for amtrak as conductors, engineers, or dining car attendants
mikhailmaui
I see the right-wing trolls are out in full force with their comments. So sad they do not have a life.
JJinAus
I’m in the biz and I would like to propose architects and historians. Yes, even the “hetero” married ones.
Troyfight
@JJinAus …”Yes, even the “hetero” married ones.”….. Sorry, I’m not understanding. Do you mean the men that are married to a woman get it on with other men, too in the field of architects and historians?
Mister P
How unsurprising the right wing troll who supposedly wants free speech is calling for canceling leftist voices.
He/she/it is too dumb for America. Go home to mother Russia.
Mister P
We haven’t seen the screen name of the self oppressed homo for oppression of homos in a while.
JessPH
No teachers?
johncp56
Major love for EMS and Nurse men!! damn, fly men yes Republicans gay hard pass! for the most part, unless hung, lol or a sub twink
Tombear
I’m a gay pharmacist and I can attest their are many gay compounding pharmacists. I knew a bunch of gay men in the Marine Corps too.