How To Tell If Someone Is Gay Or Straight
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How To Tell If Someone Is Gay Or Straight
Homosexuality is now much more out in the open than ever before, but it can still be difficult to tell if someone is gay or straight. Our film will teach you some handy techniques for honing your 'gaydar'.
Step 1: Why do you want to know?
You may be interested in finding out someone's sexuality because you are attracted to them. Finding out whether someone likes men or women before trying to chat them up will help you avoid potential embarrassment! If you are gay yourself you may also want to find out if someone is accepting of homosexuality and would be supportive if you came out to them.
Step 2: Don't make assumptions
One can't always tell who is gay by the way they dress, walk, talk etc as these simplistic assumptions play into stereotypes. There are after all, camp straight men with fabulous dress sense and there are blokey gay guys who douse themselves in Lynx and think farting is funny!
Gay men and lesbians are increasingly becoming involved in parenting - either from former straight relationships or through AID or informal arrangements and so their mentioning kids may not mean they are straight.
Step 3: Using conversation to find out
Lesbians and gay men are often more cautious in revealing personal information, they may not use a pronoun for a partner, they may be more vague about what they do with their time. This self-censoring is a way of protecting themselves from possible rejection and anti-gay abuse/discrimination.
Ask questions like:
What did you do at the weekend?
What are your plans for the weekend?
I've been trying to find a good pub/club to go out to. Do you have any recommendations?
Do you live alone?
Do you have a partner? What do they do for a living?
What did you get up to last night? And the ever so reliable - "Do you like men, women or both?"
Tips & Comments
This video seems to be a pretext for picking up at workplace video. Bah.
trout that is smelly: there is no such thing as perfect, everyone has flaws always will. i don't think these are drab at all, i've learnt a few new things.
can't we have some videos on how to be the perfect gay boyfriend or have a hot gay date something fun?? all these gay vids are miserable!!! its the 21st century isnt it!!?
You would never go up to someone and say "Do you like men,women or both?"That's soooo stupid like who does that?Frankly if a girl asked me that i'd be like "Wow you're both weird and nosey!"
Maybe the other guy was in the same situation as you, unsure about his orientation. Maybe he is just the office gossip, was just curious about you and has no life of his own. You have to stop worrying so much (I didn't say "completely") about what the other might possibly be thinking or wanting and focus more (I didn't say "exclusively") on what you want and feel. It doesn't sound like you were terribly attracted to him. In that case, you might just go for a coffee or a game of squash. If you don't trust him to keep your private life private, then don't invite him home. If you do trust the guy, why not just say the truth: you're unsure of your sexuality, and very important: no need to go into details.
Wow after hearing Marius' story i can so relate to something i have right now. Any way Marius give us some updates please!
Marius pont merci!!!! We all want updates on your story!!!!
LOL, No Marius you are not a very good house sitter!! Heeheee. can you please give us an update on how you are going with that guy?? I want to know more now!! Dont leave us hangin here!! I reckon he is definatly hot for you and you need to make some sort of move, even though thats easier said than done. Sounds like the sparks were flyin!! Please update us!!
God, I really want to know what happened to the dog. Please let us know! lol...
My first semi-homo-erotic experience….long story, please be patient it gets kind of funny So im definitely new to this type of thing…I’ve only askd for advice online before for a few things and none of it this personal. So, I’m a 21 year old male student who works part time at a large law office. I have probably a moderate or light moderate social life though most of the people I chill with do go not go to my university, they’re from work. Im far from being a virgin but Im not a slut either. I’ve always identified as heterosexual because that has been my only experience. But since I’ve gotten to college I’ve had many gay fantasies. I’ve never acted on them, however, because of social fear and frankly, because Im confused. Im not the kind of person who runs away from the truth so I’ve always thought that I would come out if that was actually who I was. Thing is, I’ve always thought that they were just fantasies and not something I actually wanted to do. Generally because when I’m near a guy the last thing I want is for him to touch me (weird, I know.) That was, until this past weekend. This is kind of a long story, but the details are necessary: A guy that I work with was at a party I went to. We ended up sharing a car ride because he was in my area and had not driven his own car. We stayed up the whole night just chillin and talking because there was nothing else to do. When the sun came up, he asked me what I wanted to do. We weren’t hungry, I suggested swimming in the pool where I was staying (I was housesitting at the time) because it was private and no one would be there. He seemed excited about that. During the entire car ride I thought I picked up on sexual tension. There was even a moment when we got into the pool that was more intense than anyting else I’ve experienced with a guy. Everything instinctual in my body was telling me to make a move but I was scared and confused. Thing is, he’s about five years older than I. I kept thinking that if he was gay, he would make the first move. I even gave him an opportunity by sitting close to him on the pool steps. We smoked some weed together and then both of us fell silent for a long time. We didn’t really look at eachother all that much but there was definitely tension. IT could have been from the weed, I don't know. I couldn’t tell if it was panic that neither of us had anything to say, or if it was sexual. Anyway, we got out of the pool, dried off, and went inside to watch tv. On the way, I broke his pipe. I thought the dude was going to get pissed and leave but after stressing over it for a few minutes he said its alright. Straight or not, I know it’s a big damn deal to break another mans pipe. I told him “I’ll do anything to make it up to you man”. He didn’t seem to catch the innuendo so I followed it with a promise to take him downtown to buy another one whenever he wanted. We went inside and he didn’t drop any hints that he was bored or wanted to leave, which I took as a sign of his interest because I know that I would probably have wanted to go home at that point and sleep if I wasn’t going to get any. We both passed out from the weed although at one point I woke up and caught him looking at me out of the corner of his eye. He shut it quickly, which I thought was strange. I was about to tell him that I was going to bed and that he was welcome to stay for awhile (ambiguously leaving the ball in his court) but then I heard a yelp…..the dog I WAS THERE TO TAKE CARE OF DIED! ….yeah…..really!! WE HAVE NO CLUE HOW!! Anyway, the dude was so cool about it. He helped me get it to the vet and even helped me clean up the blood (from the dogs mouth….we really don’t know what the hell happened yet). We laughed about it and I took him home after. I dropped this on him: “This was not how I planned for this morning to go” and he responded “that’s for sure” and laughed. I even told him that I owed him one for sticking around and that next time “we’ll do this at your place”. He said again, “for sure”. Needless to say I’m no longer watching the house so I really don’t have anywhere to invite him to (I live with three very straight guys). The first day back at work, he had told several people the story which I thought was maybe a little strange because what straight guy would want to advertise that he left a party with another guy only to go swimming alone in somebody else’s house? Exactly the kind of thing that I would tease my friends about being gay for. Am I reading too much into that, or any of this? Since then he’s made a point of nodding and coming to say hello whereas he had never done that before. He hasn’t yet invited me over to his place or hit me up to buy him a new pipe but he seems to be struggling with some awkwardness every time he talks with me. We really don't have much to talk about besides the freak accident with the dog. Maybe its really me whose struggling and I put him off? ….straight or not. Not really sure how to proceed at this point, only that after that night I’ve had several fantasies about him, in particular, which is unusual for me because both my hetero and homo fantasies are usually general and not about any one person in specific. I’ve even begun to feel what I can only compare to what I felt when I fell in love with my first girlfriend….you know, getting all hot just watching mannerisms etc. Advice? Critiques? Suggestions? Looking for feedback from men, women, gays, and straights on this one. Thanks for reading and being patient! Peace P.S. Later that night, I accidentally let the other dog out in the neighborhood. He was lost for 24 hours. Fortunately he came back. Im not really a good housesitter am I?