Comments on: Sexual Disorientation: Homo Beacons http://thenewgay.net/2009/06/homo-beacons.html For Everyone Over the Rainbow Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:03:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: JM http://thenewgay.net/2009/06/homo-beacons.html#comment-13106 JM Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:56:32 +0000 http://thenewgay.net/?p=10327#comment-13106 Cor Cor, I don't think I get a reference in this column, that makes me sad. anywho, I like it, I agree with Jack though, my gaydar usually just goes to gay. Even if a guy is with a girl I will be like that is such a cover. I need to hone it better. Cor Cor, I don’t think I get a reference in this column, that makes me sad. anywho, I like it, I agree with Jack though, my gaydar usually just goes to gay. Even if a guy is with a girl I will be like that is such a cover. I need to hone it better.

]]> By: Josh http://thenewgay.net/2009/06/homo-beacons.html#comment-12998 Josh Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:35:21 +0000 http://thenewgay.net/?p=10327#comment-12998 This post is great! My 2¢: Just ask him to go drinking with you sometime -- in a group, if that seems like less pressure. (Two college guys in Georgetown going out for a beer can't be too unusual, I'm guessing.) Once he's had a couple, ask him who he's dating/interested in. If you get nowhere there, just ask if he usually dates women or men. This question is more "informational" and less "I'm hitting on you." He's not going to punch you in the face just for asking a question (albeit sort of a prying one, haha). This post is great!
My 2¢:
Just ask him to go drinking with you sometime — in a group, if that seems like less pressure. (Two college guys in Georgetown going out for a beer can’t be too unusual, I’m guessing.) Once he’s had a couple, ask him who he’s dating/interested in. If you get nowhere there, just ask if he usually dates women or men. This question is more “informational” and less “I’m hitting on you.”
He’s not going to punch you in the face just for asking a question (albeit sort of a prying one, haha).

]]> By: Jack http://thenewgay.net/2009/06/homo-beacons.html#comment-12996 Jack Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:30:08 +0000 http://thenewgay.net/?p=10327#comment-12996 Always love your columns, Corey, thanks for these. I always joke with my friends that my gaydar is a little off -- if I actually applied it to everyone, we'd come up with a 60%, 70% gay population. It seems like any guy who is not explicitly attracted to and/or hooked up with a woman is somehow up for grabs, a potentially latent gay man. I go through your same routine -- I watch for as many ambiguous signs as I can, and since they aren't overtly heterosexual, start throwing them in the "probably gay" column. But alas, I have yet to actually conquer one of these boys. (As you said, moving in for the kill is a delicate if not impossible process. Maybe they're just not gay, haha.) Incidentally, a friend of mine once started a Facebook group called "The Facebook Closet". The group description said it was for all of us men who so cunningly left the "Interested in" category blank on our Facebook profiles. I'm sure we're not the only ones who have picked up on this little caveat... Always love your columns, Corey, thanks for these. I always joke with my friends that my gaydar is a little off — if I actually applied it to everyone, we’d come up with a 60%, 70% gay population. It seems like any guy who is not explicitly attracted to and/or hooked up with a woman is somehow up for grabs, a potentially latent gay man. I go through your same routine — I watch for as many ambiguous signs as I can, and since they aren’t overtly heterosexual, start throwing them in the “probably gay” column. But alas, I have yet to actually conquer one of these boys. (As you said, moving in for the kill is a delicate if not impossible process. Maybe they’re just not gay, haha.)

Incidentally, a friend of mine once started a Facebook group called “The Facebook Closet”. The group description said it was for all of us men who so cunningly left the “Interested in” category blank on our Facebook profiles. I’m sure we’re not the only ones who have picked up on this little caveat…

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