# "Bruce" A gay name? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 28, 2011, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bruce-a-gay-name/597933 "2011-09-28T22:24:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Capitaine\_Zombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bruce-a-gay-name/597933/61 "2011-10-03T18:45:57Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Please, you ever seen how tight those jeans are? And on the cover of the “Born in the USA” album, it’s pretty clear Springsteen is cruising, what with that big handkechief tugged out of his back pocket. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bruce-a-gay-name/597933/62 "2011-10-03T18:46:54Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > Too bad we weren’t back in the 50s, when men were men and had manly names like Rock Hudson to chase the gay away. I never got that… wasn’t Roy Fitzgerald a perfectly okay, perfectly masculine name to begin with? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bruce-a-gay-name/597933/63 "2011-10-03T18:50:12Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > Rick, Mark, and Steve. I don’t know that many gay guys in real life, but 3 of the ones I do know are named Rick! But I don’t know if they have track lighting .\* - Years back, I made the horrible mistake of taking my wife to see \*\*\*Backdraft. \*\*\* It really was lousy (I hated it even more than she did), and her payback was to make me see \*\*\*Steel Magnolias \*\*\*the following week. God, she knew how to hurt a guy! ---
**Author:** ![AndyLee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@AndyLee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndyLee)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bruce-a-gay-name/597933/64 "2011-10-03T19:01:29Z")
I agree with Bruce being a gay name. So is Wade, every Wade I’ve ever known was gay. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bruce-a-gay-name/597933/65 "2011-10-04T09:35:00Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > The only person I’ve heard classify Bruce as a gay name was Homer Jay. Well, there was Anita Bryant, some years back, who infamously declared “If God had meant people to be gay, it would have been Adam and Bruce instead of Adam and Eve.” ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bruce-a-gay-name/597933/66 "2011-10-04T10:13:43Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > Bruce is a TOUGH guy name, the whole point of the bruce = gay meme is that it’s funny for a guy with such a tough name to be gay. Same with Lance, its a freaking medieval weapon for gods sake, how can that be gay? [Robert THE Bruce.](http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/bruce_robert_the.shtml) ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bruce-a-gay-name/597933/67 "2011-10-05T07:47:41Z")
It’s just a stereotypically Aussie name to me. One of my daughter’s best friends, aged 14, is called Bruce. None of her friends seem to think it’s odd, but then they STILL haven’t noticed that one of their other friends has a total Bond Girl name. I’m waiting for it to dawn on them. > [@astorian](#): > > [snip]… Roy Fitzgerald… Boy, _does_ he! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bruce-a-gay-name/597933.md?page=3)