'Gaydar' is real, new study finds

What a nice article! No one died (sorry I've been reading those articles for a few minutes)!
I think it's real, I mean, one time this guy came up to me and helped me with my books after school. I thought "wow what a nice guy!" and then about three minutes into knowing each other it was like "i think he's gay..." and then later when we were friends it turned out to be true!
Weird thing is I'm bisexual, and my gaydar is TERRIBLE with girls!

I believe "gaydar" is a real thing, Just like intuition. I'll spot someone, man or woman, walking down the street and I'll immediately know.

Everybody is gay nowadays. Look at all those emo kids running around with their manliner and manscara!

The idea of having gaydar is good. You can go around with your meter to tally which humans chose that sexual orientation. So far it seems my meter has gone off more than 10%. I hope that world population doesn't diminish anytime soon with the amount of people choosing that lifestyle.

how can we avoid defining "gay" in this coversation? alot of people are saying they can tell. how can you tell if a person only has sex with the same sex? how bout your bi-dar, hows that work? oh, i look gay but have only had hetero relationships. i guess im really gay though cause i look it. how much more stereotypical can we get. you look gay to me, so you are. wow. thats like you look like a good political canidate, years later, oh shit your not.

My gaydar usually works pretty good for me.

Sometimes it is obvious, partly because of fashion and media role models, but sometimes it's less obvious - and now with growing metrosexual trends it's sometimes very hard to tell. (and in places like S. Korea where it seems to be trendy for lots of teen guys to look effeminate it's well nigh impossible)

I'm sure it'd be harder to tell which girls are lesbians.

GAYDAR... i knew it was real.... it would have been it awesome if they did a parallel check on females commenting on other females... and then we can host the national Gay-detection competiton... kinda like deal or no deal except you guess if they person is gay or straight.. if you have guess right... you get a million dollars...

.is that offensive? i just thought of that right now....

gay man here with horrible gaydar I over compensate for the wishful thinking factor and usually hits me much later

I've got none whatsoever. I had a friend who was deeply involved in musical theater and spoke with a lisp, and I thought he was totaly straight.

My gaydar is pretty on most of the time. Except when it comes to other girls; then it's usually impaired by wishful thinking...

My garbar is the best...about 95% of the time i'm right.

For some utterly bizarre reason (or coincidence), everyone I have ever known named "Matthew" has been gay or at least flamboyant.

I like to think i have good gaydar, then again when i think some one is gay i dont go up to them for verification.

It's funny because I'm a gay man and I have absolutely terrible gaydar, the only way I can tell if a man is gay is if he has his tongue in my mouth... and even then he could just be "experimenting"

I need better gaydar...

Does this mean Australians have g'daydar?

I think my gaydar is broken.

HA HA HA. I have that shirt. ;)

i hope i dont have gayface, a face that apparently makes women think that i'm gay. geez, who cares... hit on who you like, get laid and stop caring about moronic things such as catagorizing and judging people based off of looks alone.

Better question: does it matter? If you don't know someone, why should you care about their sexual orientation?

My Gaydar is great! I predict Mcain will be coming out of the closet any day now!

Is there a scientific reason for gaydar? I understand being around someone and picking up on the vibes and what not. But how can you tell from just a picture?

Petarro
I was not saying anything about your belief system, whether you are gay or not, or anything like that. I was only commenting on your use of the words 'Gays' and 'Queers', which some people, be they straight or gay, might find insulting.
Armageddon
I tried Brookstone for a friend who wanted it, but they didn't stock it. Try Radio Shack!

I wanted to buy gaydar, but Sharper Image was sold out. I'll try Brookstone.

sometimes its obvious. sometimes you think its obvious and you're wrong and sometimes they trick ya!

any way...who cares...gay is gay and if you look it, you probably look better than me so whatever...lol.

"Do you have good 'gaydar' or do you think the whole idea is a joke?"

I think it's absolutely immaterial to anything I might think about anyone.

- b_p

Why is this news worthy?

I can tell a homosexual in 90% of cases, and I'm not talking about homosexuals who have any effeminate or other mannerisms that are prevalent among gays, I'm talking about those who have no such mannerisms or dress styles. Same thing with lesbians. I must have a good "gaydar".

Gays are not easy to recognize, and these are great and do fill in with Society, but then Queers! Does are spot a mile away. Specially when then claim : "Ohh, a show store"!