Thursday, February 11, 2010

How good is your gaydar?

I'm a keen fan of the Graham Norton Show. He's funny, irreverent and sharp as a tack. He's also as camp as row of tents and his guests and audience always look they're having a good gay ol' time while he talks about nonsense.

The other night was especially fun. He had Joan Rivers on the show and a British actor whose name I've forgotten. They decided to test their "gaydar" on a bunch of audience members (and got it wrong mostly - damn emo's).

Now I know that not everyone who reads this blog is acquainted with all things gay so I think it's important to define a gaydar. Some know it as an internet site where you can meet other gay men for, ahem, bonding. But it's roots go back further. You won't find it in the Oxford English dictionary yet so I'll attempt my own definition.

A gaydar (usually possessed by gay men and women fondly named "fag hags") is a siren (distinguishable only to the person gifted with a gaydar) which yells loudly when a person who is homosexual enters their proximity. A gaydar could be so well evolved that a gay person can be spotted without even being seen (although we can not be sure if it's gay men's fondness for Aramis that gives them away).

Now I have a terrible gaydar. In order for me to realise that you are gay you have to be snogging another man or have plucked your eyebrows to a thin sliver to show off your new eyeliner. Mine just never evolved. Perhaps the only thing the ex-gay ministry got right.

A gay man without a gaydar is hugely disappointing and disadvantageous. In fact, some might say it's a disability. I've probably missed out on so much...

So I thought I'd test your gaydar. Below are a few pics. Tell me which of these two is gay...



11 comments:

Simon said...

Mine is also shocking. It is like being lame without crutches.

Rambler said...

exactly!Sheesh...

wozzel said...

mines pretty whacked most of the time. i was once checking out a cute guy, who when walked closer by me, turned out to be a lesbian.

so i guess it kind of works.
when it wants to.

oh dear. does that make me lesbian?

as for these two pics.

i say they are both gay.

jacki janse van rensburg said...

He's also as camp as row of tents?

you are funny, man. a friend of mine always says 'hy is so skeef soos 'n tuin hekkie'.

is it ok if we say it? or only if you say it?

my gaydar is not too great. i can only detect a gay guy in a hair salon, or when he is wearing a feather boa....

Wenchy said...

I don't even like camping so "He's also as camp as row of tents" would be lost on me, ne.

I would say the first guy is gay.... but I have no siren's going off either LOL

Allen said...

Just looking at a picture, will not tell me if he is gay or not. My GAYDAR works on live people only.

Nice story though.

Gill said...

Over the years I've come to realise that when it comes to guys my gaydar is quite well-developed - if I find a guy astonishingly attractive it usually means he's gay....such a shame that I'm a straight woman!!!!

Could you do me a favour and ask someone with a well developed gaydar what they think about Rob Pattinson? I think he's *extremely* attractive.......

wozzel said...

Gill! - oh dearey me.

Must be a personal taste thing because i dont find the scrawny - pasty look very attractive :-p

Shiny said...

Put those two in a room together, give it 5 minutes, and you'll have an X-rated show not suitable for women (or men) of high morals, such as myself x

David Fick said...

Sorry to be the pedant, but "gaydar" does indeed have a definition in the Oxford English Dictionary!

Anonymous said...

I usually end up flirting with the undercover gay guy, who hasn't figured out he's gay - has a girlfriend or fiancee, and all a sudden "a world he's never understood makes sense" or some bollocks like that! Happened a few times... Put a gay gay guy.. for real.. I can't pick them up unless their sprinting on teh dance floor with boas and firecrackers popping out god knows where... I SUCK AT THIS!