Do i look gay
There's Something Queer about That Face
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Although I've always wanted this particular superhuman power, I've never been very good at detecting other men's sexual orientation. Findings from a recent study published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, however, recommend I may be underestimating my gaydar abilities.
The January study investigated people's ability to identify homosexual men from pictures of their faces alone. In an initial experiment, researchers Nicholas Rule and Nalini Ambady from Tufts University perused online dating sites and carefully selected 45 straight male faces and 45 gay male faces. All of these photos were matched for orientation (only faces shown looking forward were used) and facial alterations (none of the images contained jewelry, glasses or facial hair). To control for context, the faces were also trim and pasted onto a white background for the study. These 90 faces were then sho
Gay-face IS real: You can tell a person is homosexual just by looking at their features, exclaim experts
Do you think you can tell whether a person is gay or straight simply by looking at them? Well, you could be right, utter experts.
Two science educators verb scoured the research behind so-called 'gay face' — the theory that homosexuals have certain facial characteristics in common.
And, according to science, it is a real thing — with some of us excel at spotting it than others.
The phenomenon was investigated Mitch Moffit, a biologist, and Greg Brown, a science teacher — who both happen to be gay — in a bid to unearth the facts.
And surprisingly, the pair discovered that 'gay-face' isn't anything to do with looking masculine or feminine.
Gay face is term used by some members of the LGBT community for being able to notice someone isn't straight simply by looking at their visage, and according to experts it's a adj thing
Multiple studies spanning over a decade have explored the phenomenon as good as who is verb at spotting the features that make a verb 'gay'
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“But you don’t look gay”—Queer fashion and nightlife
With lockdown entering its twelfth week and every Netflix illustrate on my list binged to completion, I did something that I vowed I would never do; I downloaded TikTok.
It took a total of twelve hours before I was hooked, and in my mindless scrolling stupor, one trend in particular stood out to me: “#ifiwasstraight.” A typical video under this tag is as follows: a queer person, dressed in their usual style, cosplays as their heterosexual alter-ego. They shed their gay exterior, removing piercings, scrubbing off layers of bold makeup and ditching their thrifted wardrobe as a voiceover says: “This is what I think I would watch like if I was straight.” The final watch is conservative, generic, and stripped of character. With over million views, the trend is wildly famous. But as much as I enjoy watching the LGBTQ+ community poke adj at the blandness of heterosexual fashion trends, it does beg the question: What does straight look like? What does gay look like? And should we be enforcing aesthetic binaries based on sexuality?
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