Comments on: gaydar..

By: DaisyDeadhead

DaisyDeadhead — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:05:30 +0000

“people like us”–although in the south, usually means bisexual.

Beautiful poem.

By: saydrah

saydrah — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:52:41 +0000

Well, I went to Pride today (photos and anecdotes in my blog) and one thing I noticed was that a lot of young ladies wore jewelry, pins, or even wrote on their clothing, “IMRU?” Not a code WORD, per se, but cute and to the point!

By: EKSwitaj

EKSwitaj — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:16:27 +0000

This is brilliant, especially the ending.

By: melody Kohut

melody Kohut — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:50:44 +0000

This is awesome. I never have had good gaydar; though usually I’m pretty blunt and to the point about these things. Ah well.

By: saydrah

saydrah — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:36:51 +0000

I’ve heard “member of the club” from my neighbor occasionally, but to be honest, I don’t really know– every time I’ve NOTICED that I’m receiving a query about my sexuality, it’s either to the point– “Are you gay?” or “Are you interested in women?” or more generally phrased– “Are you seeing anyone?”

Could be that “are you family?” is still alive and well in CO Springs, though– Dobson does kind of tend to put a damper on openly expressed sexuality in the area.

I’ll have to ask my friend from elementary through high school who I just reconnected with after a few years apart. We had a truly epic fight in 10th grade and didn’t speak for a long time, but I ran into her the other day. She’s in art school and seeing an awesome girl, but she is so shy about sexual topics that I imagine there must have been some creative wording involved. I just can’t see her being like my neighbor, who walked over to the fence my first day in my new rental house to introduce herself and her girlfriend and ask about my life, occupation, sexuality– not in an intrusive way, just in an, “OMG, new neighbor, be my friend!” way.

By: Jonah

Jonah — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:19:30 +0000

I’m in Chicago and I’ve had people around the gayborhood ask me if I was family, but nowhere else. I thought it was sorta out of date.

By: dread1myn

dread1myn — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:54:19 +0000

I was in Colorado from ‘88-04, in Colorado Springs and Denver. Lots of folks that I hung around used that term. What are they using now?

By: saydrah

saydrah — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:31:59 +0000

I’m in CO and I haven’t heard the “are you family?” from any of my lesbian friends… hmm, is it against the rules to let straight girls in on the code.

Hilarious poem, shared the link with my neighbor who’s been struggling with the same problem.

By: Jill

Jill — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:07:47 +0000

Too funny, cripchick.

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By: Pinky Bear

Pinky Bear — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:59:36 +0000

Cool!