Damn, I wish I had Gaydar that worked that well -- woulda saved me a LOT of trouble!

Either that dude's gaydar was spot on, or there were a lot of edited out misses

I have a friend who I went to school with who is gay. There was a group of about five or six of us who were really close friends. We all suspected he was gay but it just wasn't an issue and it never came up in conversation or anything. When we finished school his family moved abroad for a couple of years but then things went a bit wrong for them and they moved back. It was great to see him again.

After about a month of him being back we'd seen each other a few times and I got a phone call from him. He sounded a little weird, like something was up and he said 'I've got something to tell you.'

I said straight away 'are you gay?'

There was a huge pause and he eventually said 'Er, yes. You're the third person to say that.'

I told him we'd suspected it for a long time. It never came up in the same way that you wouldn't turn round to one of us and say 'hey, you like girls, right?' It was an all boys school so there weren't girls around all the time to force the issue. None of us were mega cool and although a few had girlfriends every now and then none of them were particularly serious so most of the time when we hung out it was just the guys anyway.

Even so we'd all got a reasonable gaydar on us and knew he liked boys. I'd be very surprised if a family didn't realise their kid/brother/sister was gay.

Only one of our friends had any issue with him being gay, the rest of us just got on with things as normal as nothing had changed for us, we already knew. It was good to be able to talk to him about it though, or more for him to be able to talk to us. By this time most of us were in relationships and it's been really interesting seeing his relationship with his boyfriend flourish over time as my relationship with my now wife has done.

I saw the whole thing as a sign that I'd found some pretty good friends. No judging, no awkwardness, no nothing. Good guys.

Oh, apart from the one who did have a problem. Funnily enough there was only one religious person amongst our group of friends too...

This video is used to calibrate gaydar.

My gaydar is going haywire...

I'd swear Gutfeld was gay just by this one clip. Gaydar went off when I heard his voice and saw how "catty" he was.

>> ^hpqp:

"Gaydar" is about gays being able to tell if a person is hetero or homo before finding out. There is nothing homophobic about it whatsoever, and it is a very useful skill to have (nothing's more annoying/frustrating than hitting on heteros when you're homo).


Not nearly as frustrating as accidentally hitting on homosexual men when you're a heterosexual male.

"Gaydar" is about gays being able to tell if a person is hetero or homo before finding out. There is nothing homophobic about it whatsoever, and it is a very useful skill to have (nothing's more annoying/frustrating than hitting on heteros when you're homo).

>> ^conan:

>> ^Deano:
>> ^conan:
hate the "gaydar" joke. stuff like this is what gives homophobes credit.

I'm honestly not sure how the joke was homophobic. Obviously Fry didn't seem to think so. What's your take on it?

I just don't think it's a good idea to make jokes about minorities whose members already find themselves constantly bullied in a "normal" (i.e. no David Chapelle or similar "rude" humor enviroment) show such as QI. The more bullies see this humor on regular TV, the more they think it's OK to make such jokes in their own daily life.
Ah well, maybe i'm oversensitive but i think homophobia definitely is a serious and pressing issue.


Didn't he just say something about them inventing "gaydar instead of radar"? Seemed fine to me and I wasn't aware that was a homophobic term. I've used it myself quite often along with friends and I can honestly say no one has ever sought to correct that.
I assumed it was in common usage by the gay community as well but that's only my assumption.

>> ^Deano:

>> ^conan:
hate the "gaydar" joke. stuff like this is what gives homophobes credit.

I'm honestly not sure how the joke was homophobic. Obviously Fry didn't seem to think so. What's your take on it?


I just don't think it's a good idea to make jokes about minorities whose members already find themselves constantly bullied in a "normal" (i.e. no David Chapelle or similar "rude" humor enviroment) show such as QI. The more bullies see this humor on regular TV, the more they think it's OK to make such jokes in their own daily life.

Ah well, maybe i'm oversensitive but i think homophobia definitely is a serious and pressing issue.

>> ^conan:

hate the "gaydar" joke. stuff like this is what gives homophobes credit.


I'm honestly not sure how the joke was homophobic. Obviously Fry didn't seem to think so. What's your take on it?

>> ^conan:

hate the "gaydar" joke. stuff like this is what gives homophobes credit.


But it's okay because it was made by a gay guy! Right? Right?

hate the "gaydar" joke. stuff like this is what gives homophobes credit.

Man, my gaydar is crap.

http://www.afterellen.com/people/hannah-hart-talks-my-drunk-kitchen-coming-out-and-her-nefarious-plan-to-steal-Santana-from-Brittany

She is gay.