# Ask the Gay Guy III! **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [September 21, 2000, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-gay-guy-iii/34021 "2000-09-21T17:33:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 16
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2001, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-gay-guy-iii/34021/301 "2001-04-21T20:11:18Z")
I haven’t read the latest posts here, as I don’t have a lot of time, but all around jerkball James Dobson was opposed to the appointment of Scott Everest on the AIDS task force becasue he is (gasp) gay! Not only that, he actually says that male homoexuals are rampantly promiscuous! Can someone send this guy some statistics or clue him in to reality? ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2001, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-gay-guy-iii/34021/302 "2001-04-21T21:04:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by vanilla \* > \*\*I haven’t read the latest posts here, as I don’t have a lot of time, but all around jerkball James Dobson was opposed to the appointment of Scott Everest on the AIDS task force becasue he is (gasp) gay! > Not only that, he actually says that male homoexuals are rampantly promiscuous! > Can someone send this guy some statistics or clue him in to reality? \*\* Dobson is immune to reality. He’s been spouting Anti-Gay Rhetoric for YEARS. He used to be subtle in the 80’s and has went to full tilt boogie nut job in the more recent days. His Focus on the Family magazine went from being fairy bland and banal to very political. He’s creepy. ---
**Author:** ![Sterra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Sterra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sterra)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2001, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-gay-guy-iii/34021/303 "2001-04-22T07:12:05Z")
> [@](#): > > ## I don’t know if these men are called transvestites or drag queens but they are also “over the top” as far as acting extraordinarily feminine. I think that’s all part of the façade that the straight/gay guy is looking for. > > There’s a difference between a transgendered woman and a drag queen. Transgendered women live as women constantly, in their day-to-day lives, and are not usually “over the top” as you say. Drag queens, who are probably whom you’re thinking of when you say “over the top”, typically are non-transgendered gay men who live as men in their day-to-day lives but don the frocks for a special occasion. As RuPaul said, “I do not impersonate females! How many women do you know who wear six-inch heels, four-foot hair, and skin-tight sequinned gowns?” Actually transvestites are guys that like to go out and “be female” every once in a while but have no desire to become women.(thats really a simplified definition though) Generally they are called crossdressers. They also generally don’t overdress. ---
**Author:** ![Sterra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Sterra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sterra)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2001, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-gay-guy-iii/34021/304 "2001-04-22T09:07:29Z")
(continuing post above me:)) Really the best definition for being transgendered would be anyone who thinks they are. Not enough is known to do otherwise. If you then categorize into smaller and smaller groups like “straight-acting” or transsexuals or whatever you only breed little groups that have no real meaning like defining people based on wether they are black or white. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-gay-guy-iii/34021.md?page=15)