“Gaydar,” that innate ability gay people supposedly have to zero in on other gays even in a crowd, may really exist.
When Dutch scientists examined how heterosexual and homosexual people focus their attention, they discovered gays are much more detail-oriented.
“This is the first time that scientific proof has been found for the existence of a gaydar mechanism amongst homosexuals,” researcher Dr. Lorenza Colzato of Leiden University in the Netherlands told the Daily Mail. “This perceptual skill allows homosexuals to recognize other gay people faster and we think it’s because they are much more analytic than heterosexuals.”
I think that might be a reasonable conclusion. I have very good gaydar. Back in college I had a pretty good track record at picking out the gay football players.
Most of us have seen children that we ‘knew’ were gay. I have a friend who was a third grade teacher, and on more than one occassion, kids that he thought were gay in class, he would run into at gay bars 10 or 12 years later. They still called him Mr.— like they did when they were in school. He told them, you can call me by my first name now.
Another friend has a nephew who he thought was gay since the kid was a child and the boy’s father recently told my friend that his son had recently come out to him. My friend wanted to say, yeah, i knew that a long time ago, but he didnt. He just told the father that it was no big deal and gave him the support that he needed. BTW-this friend is far from butch, so the gay boy’s father obviously has zero gaydar (like the dad in the French McDonald’s commercial) ;-)