let me help you tune your gaydar

[Eireann]

I need a more finely tuned gaydar. I hardly ever pick up on the fact that a man is gay. Which can cause some problems.

And has.

I may have been hit on by a woman, a few years ago - I was in a bookstore, she worked there, and she asked if she could help me. I told her I was fine, I was just looking out the window, and she stood there staring at me without taking her eyes off my face. It was very intrusive, but since I've never had a woman do that to me, I didn't know how to react.

[trailerparkmedic]

Lol Whiskey, I actually do have to tell people I am straight. Because a sensitive, caring, attentive, guy who actually LISTENS can't be straight. Right?

Fiance got mistaken as gay all the time in high school, since he wore preppy clothes and did his hair.

My best guy friend in the Army was gay. We had tons of fun going shopping at the mall and checking out guys.

One of Fiance's coworkers really shows that you can't figure out who is gay unless they start talking about their significant other. He is gay, but doesn't dress well (they made a rule about no sandals in the office just for him), normally looks pretty scruffy, would rather go camping than stay in a luxury hotel, and goes to church every week.

[C. Cecil Ivanish]

Case in point. I am traveling soon to meet up with my 'Special Other', first question out of my mother's mouth (whom I told of course) is "Its a female ... right?" I felt like saying "No, it's an Aardvark."

...yes, but a MALE or a FEMALE aardvark?

Hmm I wonder if that would work for me. Gather up all my friends, sit them down and do this. "Guys, I have something to admit. It's hard for me to say, but a lot of you have asked..so I think it is time I come clean." pause for effect. "Dear friends and loved ones, I have to tell you..I am Straight. I know, some of you might be dissapointed..."

Actually I have a friend who did more or less the same, at a party. Unfortunately it was not TOO funny, as nobody suspected he might have been gay anyway... maybe because of how he kept staring at a female friend's abundant chest...

[Mytical]

Hmm I wonder if that would work for me. Gather up all my friends, sit them down and do this. "Guys, I have something to admit. It's hard for me to say, but a lot of you have asked..so I think it is time I come clean." pause for effect. "Dear friends and loved ones, I have to tell you..I am Straight. I know, some of you might be dissapointed..."

[smileyeagle1021]

Since other people brought up the amusing coming out stories, I might as well add mine too (while I'm waiting for my fiance to come to bed... I know, you all wanted to know that little bit of information )
With one of my friends in Reno (he's going to be my best man by the way, if that shows you how far back we go), we went to the Silver Legacy to play Pai Gow Poker (love Pai Gow Poker ) and we were on a table with a flamboyant dealer, a gay couple, and a lesbian couple, as we were walking out of the casino and back to my car he said "wow, we were like the only two straight people on that table" and I responded "I hate to break it to you, but..."
He just stopped me and said "finally, it's about bloody time you admit it"
I love my friends

[zombiequeen]

Lol Whiskey, I actually do have to tell people I am straight. Because a sensitive, caring, attentive, guy who actually LISTENS can't be straight. Right?

Oh crap, my husband's gay? But-but, I'm a woman!
I hate when people assume things like that

[smileyeagle1021]

Mytical, don't feel too bad, every time my mom tells me about how things are going with her new boyfriend I ask "and have you told him you're a lesbian yet"
Then again, that is because she went through chemo last year and she lost most of her hair, and while it was growing back she looked like a stereotypical... using the impolite term... dyke.
Yes, I am going to hell.

[Mytical]

Case in point. I am traveling soon to meet up with my 'Special Other', first question out of my mother's mouth (whom I told of course) is "Its a female ... right?" I felt like saying "No, it's an Aardvark."

[Umingmaq]

My wife brought home a Gaydar Gun, a plastic artifact with a bunch of recorded phrases. And all this time I thought I was straight...

[Peppergirl]

Lol Whiskey, I actually do have to tell people I am straight. Because a sensitive, caring, attentive, guy who actually LISTENS can't be straight. Right?

I assume this is a rhetorical question, correct?

[Mytical]

Lol Whiskey, I actually do have to tell people I am straight. Because a sensitive, caring, attentive, guy who actually LISTENS can't be straight. Right?

[C. Cecil Ivanish]

15. Has he told you he is gay?
Then, yes, most definitely gay.

...not necessarily, he might simply be pulling your leg

[Whiskey]

until my straight friends start feeling the need to preface talking about their boy/girlfriends with "I've been meaning to tell you.. i'm straight", I feel absolutely zero need to preface mine. Then again all my stories start with the gender-non-specific "This crazy bitch.."

[lobo94]

A friend of mine from school came out to me a while ago. My reaction was, "So?"

I told my friend I wouldn't say anything about his men as long as he didn't say anything about my big girls.

[teh_blumchenkinder]

I dunno greek_jester, getting caught with your pants down ... might trump that! True, it's an awful eternity when a call gets dropped at the perfect moment, I've experienced it, but surprised with your lover while getting your freak on?