Signs you were told meant you had "the gay".

[Xeros]

The only thing I can think of that fits the bill is from my days in camp as a kid. One of my bunkmates asked us all to check out nails, and if we curled our fingers in like a fist or extended them out straight was the "tell". Fist = Striaght, Extended = Gay. Even at age 12, we didn't take it seriously.

This was the "gay test" when I was in high school. I'd already had my hand on the table, so when asked I simply looked down and extended my hand; bad call.

OT: Good lord, quite a few of my proclivities earned me a fair bit of animosity. Good ol' New Found Glory taught me the lyrics to My Heart Will Go On, Kiss Me, and Glory of Love so when I'd hear the originals I couldn't help but sing along.

I preferred a hefty intake of media and literature to trying to plow anything that resembled a willing woman. This, in turn, left me a good deal more well-spoken than my schoolmates.

I hated sports, and absolutely sucked at them.

Yeah, when you're 0 for 4 in gay tests, you're pretty fucked from the get-go.

 

[Adeptus Aspartem]

I heard #1-3 from the OT too. I had my ear pierced when i was little, so in the first few grades some kids thought it'd be funny to call all the kids with earrings gay.
Btw, it's mainly the left ear. I had it on the right one, but that doesn't stop children from being idiots.

#4 would be considered bad etiquette though. I mean, switching fork/knive. My grandma would've flipped the table if we would've done that. That's a really strange theory.

 

[Banana Cannon]

Possessing a vocabulary & preferring to use it was one 'proof of being gay' I got thrown at me an awful lot. Being surrounded by mongoloids all but willing to throw themselves into addiction issues & pregnancy cases in their 20s didn't help. That, & liking to read books.

Another one, ironically, was a disdain for football. Never mind that I wasn't good at it, I didn't like some of the people it produced.

 

[Xeros]

"Bad Call"

A likely story gay boy! /s

Ya know, I believe they said something similar, save the sarcasm.

It's amazing what we thought was important or interesting at that age, isn't it?

Yeah, back in the day, makin' sure you weren't gay was right up there with pursuing a career in music and film Jared Leto-style, and being the god-king of space.

 

[Banana Cannon]

The only thing I can think of that fits the bill is from my days in camp as a kid. One of my bunkmates asked us all to check out nails, and if we curled our fingers in like a fist or extended them out straight was the "tell". Fist = Striaght, Extended = Gay. Even at age 12, we didn't take it seriously.

This was the "gay test" when I was in high school. I'd already had my hand on the table, so when asked I simply looked down and extended my hand; bad call.

OT: Good lord, quite a few of my proclivities earned me a fair bit of animosity. Good ol' New Found Glory taught me the lyrics to My Heart Will Go On, Kiss Me, and Glory of Love so when I'd hear the originals I couldn't help but sing along.

I preferred a hefty intake of media and literature to trying to plow anything that resembled a willing woman. This, in turn, left me a good deal more well-spoken than my schoolmates.

I hated sports, and absolutely sucked at them.

Yeah, when you're 0 for 4 in gay tests, you're pretty fucked from the get-go.

"Bad Call"

A likely story gay boy! /s

It's amazing what we thought was important or interesting at that age, isn't it?

Your hand anecdote reminds me of another example, although this was a lot less hostile & more in jest. Still is today. You checked to see if there was anything on the heel of your shoe in my case. If you flipped up your heel, & checked the back of it by turning your head around to see it as it naturally folds, "You Faggeh" was the usual rebuttal. The 'straight-positive' result was when you rested your foot against your other knee. What struck me as entertaining about it wasn't the catching people out of it, but the premise by itself. Whoever came up with it was excessively bored as a child.

 

[Vault101]

back when I was in highschool I was so utterly terrified of anything pertaining to gayness (of the lesbian variety) I wouldn't wear certain clothes...I wouldn't even wear sneakers with jeans

by my own weird logic my peers (apparently) presented a lot gayer than I did

 

[Something Amyss]

9. Flirting with dudes

and the one that still gives me the most shit from my family...

10. Kissing a friend on the cheek on St. Patrick's Day.

Spoiler: Oh and...

I enjoyed it, his skin was so soft.

But I'm still like 90% sure I'm straight though.

I don't know. I think I'm going to have to convene the secret LGBT alliance to discuss your standing.



Wait, did I just mention the secret LGBT alliance? Pretend I didn't say anything.

 

[JustAnotherAardvark]

"Being in the RAF regiment" was one I heard considerably later in life.

Oh please, who are you? Everyone knows it's meant to be in the Navy

<seaman/semen joke goes here>

I was in submarines, "100 men go down, 50 couples come up."
Also, Village People were pretty awesome. Yes, I know, disco is dead. :/

Edit: teh gayz
At the academy, it was apparently "walking too close to my brother".
In Hawaii, it was running in gortex tights instead of loose boxers.
Rednecks exist in Hawaii ... who knew?
Also, wtf is it with people who yell crap out of car windows?

 

[Vicarious Reality]

Sorry about your back man, i cracked my spine some years ago

I cross my legs all the damn time and i would hardly call myself gay, actually i have them double crossed right now
Also i love purple and my fingers are the same length


captcha:
genghis khan

????

 

[Creator002]

4. This one I always found particularly weird but, using my fork in my left hand while cutting food with a knife in my right, and NOT switching the fork to my right hand to eat the piece of food later. You heard that right folks. If you are cutting food, and have the fork in your left hand to stabilize the meat, and cut it with your knife in your right hand, you better switch the fork over to your right hand to eat the bite of food, or you are into the gay.

That's quite funny, since here in Australia, it's etiquette to NOT switch hands to eat after cutting something with a knife and fork. As far as I understand, it's purely an American thing, but I didn't check where you're from and I haven't travelled much, so I could be wrong about that.

On topic, not being attracted to someone the rest of the group is. That one happened a lot to me and, surprisingly enough, after we'd finished high school, which was when it became a nightmare since we had more time to hang out. ShIt me off then and would shit me off now if I still hung out with that group.
Not going out with a girl who's "hot" and asks you out. To be fair, I was fucking 12 years old[footnote]Case in point, I was so young I couldn't even properly articulate WHY I didn't accept her offer to go out. [/footnote] and this girl had a reputation for being... loose, for lack of a better word (again, being loose at 12/13 years of age :/).
I've also heard a variation of the fingers thing, but for us it was ring finger being longer than index. Funnily enough, my left ring finger is the same length as my left index, but my right ring finger is longer than my index and I'm quite certain I'm heterosexual.

 

[MeatMachine]

Living with a friend of the same gender and neither of you are in a relationship.

So, like, every roommate, ever?
Tell me only children have told you this - I don't believe adults with a lick of world experience would ever think this.

 

[ERaptor]

I was bullied pretty hard until around 8th grade, so a lot of stuff I heard before that was mostly just because they wanted to mix it up. I think one of the usual suspects once made the case that I was looking at books more than I was looking at Ladies, which obviously meant I'm gay... For books? Or how does that work? It was dumb either way

Later on there weas stuff like this:

- As a guy, having your left ear pierced but not the other one meant you were gay.

- Usually having one or multiple female friends that you werent diddling was also a clear sign that you were gay. (Cant possibly be because I look like a sack of reanimated potatoes that swears a lot, no. I'm totally into dudes you guys)

- Wearing rings as a guy. I dont know how this one works, it's just the way I was told.

- Playing an instrument or singing was and sometimes still is an appearantly very clear sign of "Ze Gay".


I think the worst part wasnt actually all these signs that you were gay, but just all these stupid things people appearantly "knew" about gay people. If you had one of the signs, or one of the school-coolkids labeled you accordingly, the general suggestion was to just seek out other gay students. Because as we all know, gay people do not hav preferences or actually go on dates and the like. They just orbit aimlessly around until they find someone else that is gay, and then proceed to koitus.

 

[Eclipse Dragon]

Living with a friend of the same gender and neither of you are in a relationship.

So, like, every roommate, ever?
Tell me only children have told you this - I don't believe adults with a lick of world experience would ever think this.

"And neither of you are in a relationship" which for some reason, at least where I live,
seems to make people think you're sleeping together regardless of gender.

 

[sageoftruth]

No one I knew actually considered this to be a sign I was gay, but my friends tease me a lot about constantly saying things that sound "ambiguously gay". The best one I can remember is when my roommate and I met this woman at a gym and we all walked back together, since she happened to live near our apartment. She was into drinking, partying, club music, hip hop, and a slew of other things that turn me off. However, she mentioned having a boyfriend who was a huge gamer and sounded like a soon-to-be best friend for me.
A week later, I was visiting my parents at a restaurant and I mentioned our encounter. My mother gave me that, "Ooh, you met a girl" look and asked how she was.
I responded. "Eh, she didn't really seem to be my type, but her BOYFRIEND on the other hand..." And cue the uproarious laughter from everyone at the table. Even if it wasn't intentional, it was well worth it.

 

[username sucks]

Well, my mom signed me up for a ton of sports as I was growing up, and always tried to teach me the "manly" hobbies and ways to do things for the express purpose of making sure I ended up straight. So obviously if you do anything stereotypically feminine as a guy, you're gay.

...
Except that now I love dicks and everything else about guys. But hey, most people tell me I "pass" as straight really well[footnote]Which infuriates me to no end, I swear everyone tells me that, even my boyfriend has at one point[/footnote]!

 

[Kae]

A picture of me wearing a dress...

It wasn't really me though, it was my mother but I looked a lot like her, having long hair didn't help either but damn I looked very pretty...

Also the fact that my mother always referred to me as a female to try to annoy which in turn got me mixed up and I would often refer to myself using female nouns, it's fine though I don't mind being referred as either, however I don't really look like a girl anymore.


This song seems appropriate to this thread.

 

[Dango]

Sucking dicks.

I was silent and cared about fashion, I also wasn't into talking about girls' anatomy all the time, I imagine for many this likely meant I was gay.

 

[Hieronymusgoa]

well i played with rainbow bride and lady lovely locks (look at all the colors and omg that dress amiright?) and gave all the cars to my brother. that might have been considered gay. but then again we both liked dinosaurs and transformers (and therefore most of all dinobots).

people told me sometimes i seemed gay when i was younger/a teen because i had longer curly hair, didnt like soccer or cars and cried instead of hitting back most of the time i was bullied. i am quite sure i was born gay but these things, id say, might rather correlate than being causally connected to being gay.

 

[Nailzzz]

My parents believed I was gay for years, largely because I never showed any interest in sex/women. Apparently it came as a real blow to my father when they would search my room and not find any porn or drugs anywhere or even a single picture of any woman/girl. Eventually I did get a serious GF when I just turned 17, but I never brought her up or around my parents. They continued to believe that I was gay all the way past the point when they through me out onto the streets a few months later.

I'm sure it probably freaked them out a bit when the next time one of them managed to see me around, I was wearing makeup and had long dyed black hair. Ultimately I just didn't want to subject my GF to my parents. Frankly I found my parents to be pretty embarrassing white trash and didn't want them reflecting on me.