How to dress gay when you look straight
Are you a newbie in the society of openly out lesbians? *gasp*
Do you also wish to have a girlfriend but also cannot figure out how to find one?
Do you look at Kristen Stewart and wish you could do that (no pun intended)?
Well, then this is the guide for you. In only a few simple steps you can glance like the womxn loving womxn you have always dreamt of being.
Reduce yourself to a binary understanding of being a Homosexual woman, even though you fought hard against society for exactly that all this while.
It is vital for you to first know your demarcation-
are you butch or femme?
Do you want your clothes to scream BOTTOM in all caps or do you wish to reach off as an aloof and mysterious top?
If you don’t know yet, then this is the place for you to be.
Colours Matter
If you want to send a signal to another sapphic, then it becomes extremely important for you to showcase your personality through the colour of your clothes.
Dark clothes mean a black, brooding personality; which in lesbian terms translates to entity a top. For this aesthetic, you need to possess a massive
Is is it politically incorrect to say someone looks gay?
kazuri said:
You cannot compare queer people who do not act &#;gay&#; because you do not know they are gay. Hence idiocy.
No I am not arguing semantics. I am pro-gay marriage, etc etc, and I use the word &#;gay&#; how he describes, and when I use it I am not thinking about homosexuals in the slightest. I am not the only person who does this.Click to expand
Are you this suffocating to be with?
This:
,
might not be enough for some people to call gay.
but this is:
Can you see anything masculine about it?
Not all gays are feminine, true. They call it straight acting. What&#;s straight acting? They act like straight people. Or maybe they don&#;t need to act, but they just so take place to like people of the same sex.
But this is missing the point.
The fact that people can be surprised when someone reveals their sexuality, means that we have some definition of what "gay" means, and what&#;s the behaviour typically demonstrated by, or found in recognizable gay people.
Sure, occasionally we do find me
“But you don’t look gay”—Queer fashion and nightlife
With lockdown entering its twelfth week and every Netflix exhibit on my list binged to completion, I did something that I vowed I would never do; I downloaded TikTok.
It took a total of twelve hours before I was hooked, and in my mindless scrolling stupor, one trend in particular stood out to me: “#ifiwasstraight.” A typical video under this tag is as follows: a queer person, dressed in their usual style, cosplays as their heterosexual alter-ego. They shed their gay exterior, removing piercings, scrubbing off layers of bold makeup and ditching their thrifted wardrobe as a voiceover says: “This is what I think I would see like if I was straight.” The final glance is conservative, generic, and stripped of character. With over million views, the trend is wildly well-liked. But as much as I enjoy watching the LGBTQ+ community poke amusing at the blandness of heterosexual fashion trends, it does beg the question: What does straight look like? What does gay look like? And should we be enforcing aesthetic binaries based on sexuality?
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How to LOOK Gay
I smell gay.
… I swear I do. Which is why I am always shocked when I am mistaken for straight. Even if someone misses that distinctive ‘queer’ scent on me, I figure that my outfit will always be the giveaway… but apparently that is not always the case.
Though I do not necessarily categorize myself under any of the typical labels, most of my friends would call me “femme” meaning that I am relaxed in dresses/ skirts and sound more on the ‘girly’ ‘feminine’ side of the spectrum. While I do not completely differ with this assessment, I would more accurately call myself a boho tomboy. I look to Jimi Hendrix, Patti Smith and those who prefer the nomadic lifestyle for inspiration.
I see the way I choose to dress as very different from what a typical heterosexual woman would wear. Somehow even when I ‘girl it up’ I’m still a little tougher, a petty edgier, a little less traditionally feminine. I might wear a super sweet soft flowing dress, but it only looks right if I pair it with combat boots and tonnes of spikes. The newish phenomenon of ‘boyfriend jeans’ is ri