Okay…so I’ve been out now for about a little over a year now. Until this day, people can either instantly tell that I am gay upon meeting me (excellent gaydar), but then there are the people who have no idea until I tell them (terrible gaydar). Even when I was “straight” people would still ask me if I was gay and others wouldn’t know a thing. All of us gays are blessed with a “gaydar” because after all they are our own kind.

Usually, after I become somewhat close to a person and they haven’t ask me about my sexual orientation, I will just flat out say it or make comment like “That guy is really cute.” That was the exact situation with one of my really good new friends. At first, she thought I was trying to play some kind of joke on her. But seriously, what kind of straight guy would try and pretend they’re gay? This is a prime example of a girl was a terrible “gaydar”.

Now, I am proud of being gay, so when people can’t tell, I am somewhat disappointed. When i let new people into my life and they don’t know I am gay, I ask them why they didn’t think that. They respond with various reasons like “you don’t walk like you’re gay” or “you don’t talk like you’re gay.” These are very common stereotypes that I receive from people. Not ALL gay people have to act a certain way. We are just normal people who were born this way and I don’t think a lot of people are educated of that.

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It’s not a surprise that the rise of social networking has made everyone’s private lives, not so private (willingly and not so willingly). Here’s the lastest: Two students at MIT that were taking a class on ethics and law on the electronic frontier decided to delve into online social networks that had gone mainstream. Using the data from Facebook, they made a striking discovery: they could predict if someone was gay- even if they weren’t friends with them.

How did they do this? They used a software program that looked at the gender of the person’s friends and their sexuality (ie. men interesting in men, etc.) and using a statistical analysis, it made a prediction. They had no way of checking their predictions, but their computer program appeared to be quite accurate for men they said. Essentially, people are outing themselves by who they are friends with on Facebook. Obviously, not a huge issue if you are out of the closet, but for some it might be a problem. So interesting. Just with Facebook, people can figure out so much about us. Our sexuality, our age (based on the age of the majority of our friends), religion (if you belong to one), where your work, etc.

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I wonder why this one took SO LONG to spoof. It was almost way to obvious what this would end up being.

RADAR is Britney’s newest single, even though it’s from her third album. No clue why she did that, but it’s not even that good of a song!

Check out GAYDAR – better than the original!

“Wonder if you know you’re on my RadarGaydar, on my RadarGaydar.”

What is Gaydar? Do you have it?

This is just one of those things that’s really hard to explain to my straight friends. I remember having this discussion with my good friend Lisa, with whom I have been friends since grade 9. She (out of nowhere) once asked: “Do you have Gaydar?”  I was kind of shocked that she was even familiar with the term. When I told her I did indeed have gaydar, she would ask me every two seconds about every single guy within range… Oh Lisa.

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