# Things that don't seem gay, but are **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 10, 2012, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-dont-seem-gay-but-are/634335 "2012-09-10T21:20:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-dont-seem-gay-but-are/634335/61 "2012-09-12T03:10:39Z")
> [@Rich\_G7subs](#): > > We have a vendor here in the building that is Peruvian. He said in his culture a man could recieve oral sex from a man and not be labeled as Gay but the man GIVING the oral sex, now he would be labeled as gay! A few of the guys on my first boat had a conversation that ended up with them reaching this conclusion. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-dont-seem-gay-but-are/634335/62 "2012-09-12T03:43:40Z")
> [@Szlater](#): > > When did tea-drinking become ‘gay’? > > 50-odd million people would really like to know. And if you consider the entire world aren’t there like two or three billion tea drinkers? ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-dont-seem-gay-but-are/634335/63 "2012-09-12T03:47:26Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > A few of the guys on my first boat had a conversation that ended up with them reaching this conclusion. I’ve heard some guys claim sucking pussy is for fags, yes you heard that right a man performing oral sex on a woman is gay. So extrapolating further I can only reach the conclusion that a guy sucking cock is the straightest sex act around. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-dont-seem-gay-but-are/634335/64 "2012-09-12T03:52:21Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > As a straight guy who has issues with traditional masculinity, I have been on the receiving end of some surprises of this nature. I had been interested in early jazz since I started playing saxophone and clarinet at 12, but as I branched out from jazz into 1920s-40s pop music, I noticed that all of a sudden I encountered more gay enthusiasts. Since then, I’ve observed that being interested in any obsolete popular culture - something no one is around to remember - is, as often as not, a culturally gay activity. The reasons still elude me, but it’s worth speculating about. The music angle is interesting; I suppose that explains the whole show tunes / Judy Garland thing, even if Broadway theater is still a living form. Contemporary mainstream culture has so definitively tagged such interests as gay that it’s surprising to learn how generally popular such music once was, rather than being restricted in the popular imagination to gays or any other segment. It was a familiar ingredient of the day’s radio programs. ‘…and now, here’s the big song from that new Broadway play everyone’s talking about…’., and so on. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-dont-seem-gay-but-are/634335/65 "2012-09-12T05:25:46Z")
> [@Dallas\_Jones](#): > > \*\*Things that don’t seem gay, but are \*\* > > The Mazda Miata. No explaination needed. > > [mazda miata gay car - Google Search](http://www.google.com/search?q=mazda+miata+gay+car&hl=en&prmd=imvnsfd&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=zYNOULefNojhrAHzw4HgAg&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1536&bih=695) I always did want one of those, though I definitely wouldn’t want it in pink. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-dont-seem-gay-but-are/634335/66 "2012-09-12T16:32:40Z")
Having sunglasses tilted up on your head. It’s a matter of practicality - you’re inside, you don’t want to smush your sunglasses in your pocket, and tilting them up gets them out of the way. But it looks gay. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-dont-seem-gay-but-are/634335/67 "2012-09-12T17:02:29Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Apparently, there was a time when you could call your rock band “Queen”, dress like [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hannover7909.jpg) and no one thought you were gay. For what it’s worth, Mercury wasn’t actually in the band when they changed their name to Queen. It was his idea, though (he was a sort of groupie at the time). ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-dont-seem-gay-but-are/634335/68 "2012-09-12T17:11:20Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > The music angle is interesting; I suppose that explains the whole show tunes / Judy Garland thing, even if Broadway theater is still a living form. Contemporary mainstream culture has so definitively tagged such interests as gay that it’s surprising to learn how generally popular such music once was, rather than being restricted in the popular imagination to gays or any other segment. It was a familiar ingredient of the day’s radio programs. ‘…and now, here’s the big song from that new Broadway play everyone’s talking about…’., and so on. Yep. My main interest, 78rpm era dance band and big band music, turns out to be mostly a side interest for show music fans. They love it, but it’s not what got them started. (Me neither - in my case it was jazz, which is still pretty straight-male oriented.) ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-dont-seem-gay-but-are/634335/69 "2012-09-12T18:48:44Z")
> [@bup](#): > > Having sunglasses tilted up on your head. It’s a matter of practicality - you’re inside, you don’t want to smush your sunglasses in your pocket, and tilting them up gets them out of the way. > > But it looks gay. IMHO it more makes you look like a douche. The worst is when they remove the glasses _turn them upside down_ and put them on the back of their head, so it literally looks like eyes on the back of their head. At least the method you mention, you can push them over your eyes at a moments notice. This one requires you to take them off, wipe your head sweat on your pink polo shirt, and put them on. ---
**Author:** ![Luk3112](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a9adbd/32.png) [@Luk3112](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Luk3112)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-dont-seem-gay-but-are/634335/70 "2012-09-25T09:47:30Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Is being English no longer “gay”?😕 Being English is definitely gay. I’m 100% English, I’m interested women and not in men. But I’m still a faggot. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-dont-seem-gay-but-are/634335/71 "2012-09-25T13:41:49Z")
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