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# Gay Vague?
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/1437/
- Published: 2005-06-20T13:08:02.000Z
- Updated: 2005-06-20T13:08:02.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Culture, #wpChunk

The *New York Times* is excited. According to [this story](http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/19/fashion/sundaystyles/19GAYDAR.html?ex=1276833600&en=9a7245033eb2af5a&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&ref=thedailyeudemon.com), it's getting harder and harder to distinguish queers from straights. Excerpts:

> As gay men grow more comfortable shrugging off gay-identified clothing and Schwarzeneggerian fitness standards, straight men are more at ease flaunting a degree of muscle tone seldom seen outside of a Men's Health cover shoot. And they are adopting looks - muscle shirts, fitted jeans, sandals and shoulder bags - that as recently as a year ago might have read as, well, gay.

> The result is a new gray area that is rendering gaydar - that totally unscientific sixth sense that many people rely on to tell if a man is gay or straight - as outmoded as Windows 2000\. It's not that straight men look more stereotypically gay per se, or that out-of-the-closet gay men look straight. What's happening is that many men have migrated to a middle ground where the cues traditionally used to pigeonhole sexual orientation - hair, clothing, voice, body language - are more and more ambiguous. Make jokes about it. Call it what you will: "gay vague" will do. But the poles are melting fast. . .

> "We have left the era when the defining line for men is one of sexual preference," he said. "Now, it's either 'I want to be stylish' or 'I don't.' " . . .

Well, this at least gives Eric Scheske a reason not to be stylish, besides being cheap.

Note: Unscientific or not, Eric still claims his gaydar can spot a homosexual at a hundred yards.