The site is not letting me quote or multi-quote.
But if you read through the posts you do get the general impression that a 'straight acting' gay man is frowned upon by the majority of gays.
Is it stereotyping? Not if you are a so called 'straight acting' gay man who has been on the receiving end of the flamer's 'wrath' of 'straight acting gay men'.
Bitchy/Jaded
Old Queen is part of the camp thing and they do it well. Often too well.
Quote:pellaz straight acting men are lame come time for a relationship, i would hire one to work on my car tho.
Maybe he was just funning us, but you know this 'joke' is not too off the mark, as most humor is.
Quote:dfiant The term itself 'Straight Acting' pisses me off no end. People keep telling me that I act straight and I tell them to shove their stereotypes up their arse. The way I am is no act and I refuse to be anything but myself.
Tags it on the head - If you are 'straight acting' (please to note the marks on either side) then it is inferred that you are acting straight. You are hiding, you are pretending to be straight. A majority of homosexuals in the city see it this way. Out here in the rural scene the majority see you as being a man - no act, just you being you.
The inference is, and always has been that if you walk like a man, talk like a man, refrain from camp, and 'gay phrases' you are acting - pretending to be straight.
Yes I have a Rural Idealism. That's why I live out here.
When I go to the one and only gay bar in the area (we had two, the Mustang closed due to lack of interest in the Cowboy look only crowd - it tried to specialized, that went over like a lead balloon) we see all kinds of gays mingling together.
Now go to the big City, you got to go to the leather bar to meet guys into S&M, the Bear Club to meet bears, the Black bar to to meet black men, the Preppy bar to meet twinks, the Elephant to meet older men... etc. etc. etc.
Seems to me the city gays are really working over time to separate everyone by label.