However, Bailey, in his tests, found gays' gaydar is no better than straights' gaydar.
Who else out there has these same things? And you learn to pick up on just the littlest things.'
One said, 'I notice things that are different about myself from other people. On the other hand, many gays said they have better gaydar because they've needed to develop it to find partners. I really have no need to look at you guys and say who's gay and who's straight,' he said. One of our straight testers said it's no surprise he guessed wrong. The man who got the highest straight score - was gay. Most testers identified two men as straight, because of their 'bad hair.'īut of course none of this is 100 percent reliable. It's a gay 1980s outfit.'Īnd apparently, there's a straight look. Singling out one subject, a tester said, 'It's basically the flannel shirt, the Levi 501s and the combat boots. More people mentioned voices, or clothing. 'I think gay men have their eyebrows up,' one tester said. Others said a few of the men's eyes tipped them off. What tipped them off? Some said speech patterns did it. I got 60 percent right, so I don't know if I have a good gaydar or not. 'The visual part of it, I think, is very important because I socialize with a lot of gay friends, and I think it has to do something with the clothes and maybe their affect.
