gayest man's name

My sister (SF attorney) and I have been arguing with my unrelentingly conservative dad via email about CA Prop 8. It's been going on for about three weeks now off and on. Yesterday she had him read this article about the inherent inequalities between domestic partnerships and marriage. He responded with:

Jan is an interesting name. The whining about the terms "husband and wife" below makes me wonder if Jan wants to be known as a husband or a wife. And would Jan's partner be a husband, or a wife? Under the current law they can call themselves whatever they want to at their wedding ceremony (husband and husband or wife and wife or husband and wife). I don't see any problem with that.

Here's the thing though: his name is Gary, so I kinda want to point out to him that homophobic guys who have arguably the gayest man's name in the history of western civilization maybe shouldn't be commenting on the sexual ambiguity of other people's names? Is there a "gayer" man's name than Gary? Maybe Bruce?

How about "Gay?"

yah gaylord

henrymosexual

I think the names Bruce and Lance are historically identified with gay men, although it's not something you hear much anymore.

julian
quentin

xxxxp Gay is a woman's name. Ask legendary Australian horse trainer Gay Waterhouse.

Christian

Francis

Llewelyn however you spell it

irish singer Gay Woods has a lol name

i think Gary is super gay

laurence

Debbie

Standrogynous

Wayne

I actually have an aunt whose mom's name is Gay Mann.

HOMER: They ruined all our best names like Bruce and Lance and Julian. Those were the toughest names we had! Now they’re just...

JOHN: Queer?

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I mean c'mon dad the G here does not stand for George.

Johnson saw fit to change the name of the Hulk's comic book alter ego, Dr. (Robert) Bruce Banner, to "Dr. David Banner" for the t.v. series. This change was made, according to Johnson, because he did not want the series to be perceived as a comic book series, so he wanted to change what he felt was a staple of comic books, and Stan Lee's comics in particular, that major characters frequently had alliterative names. On the DVD commentary of the pilot of The Incredible Hulk, Johnson also says that it was a way to honor his late son David. However, according to Stan Lee, Universal changed the name because "Bruce Banner" sounded, in the eyes of the network, like a "gay character" name, and David sounded much better ("Bruce" ultimately became the TV Banner's middle name, as it had been in the comics. It is visible on David's tombstone at the end of the pilot episode).

"All gay men have track lighting and all gay men are named Mark, Rick, or Steve."

i wouldn't have picked out Gary as a particularly gay name. otoh, the only Gary i know is my gay cousin, so...

no further witnesses your honor

"All gay men have track lighting and all gay men are named Mark, Rick, or Steve."

Oddly enough, several websites erroneously quote this as "Bruce, Rick, or Steve."

(I do know a gay couple named Mark and Rick, however.)

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D02E5D91138F934A15755C0A967948260

"query"

I AM NOT GAY

People always use "Patrick" for comedy purposes. And to be completely honest, I'm pretty sure the bulk of men I've known who went by Patrick were gay.

"All gay men have track lighting and all gay men are named Mark, Rick, or Steve."

Oddly enough, several websites erroneously quote this as "Bruce, Rick, or Steve."

(I do know a gay couple named Mark and Rick, however.)

Oh, I was in the play - I'm pretty sure it was Mark!

Although that's not a large sample set, and I'm not sure what one would imagine straight Patricks going by instead -- Rick or Pat, I guess, but I don't know a single Rick and haven't known a Pat in a long time, so I'm not sure how that enters into it.

Kind of along the lines of what Nabisco said, I've noticed that a lot of my gay friends go by their full names instead of nicknames like Patrick v. Pat. All of the men I know who go by Steven rather than Steve, for instance, are gay.

XPOST YAY: I've found that gay men use full names rather than nicknames more often than straight men do. I can think of only person I've known who's gone by Patrick (instead of Pat), and yes, he was gay. Same goes for Thomas and Christopher.

boston w/all the irishes is full of pats

the rick i know = straight

the four pats i know = straight straight straight bi

the gary i (sorta) know = gayer than christmas

i know two gay dudes named "tomás"

lol the bi pat actually goes by "patrick" usually i think

i live next door to two gays who are both named patrick. neither one goes by pat.

We're totally onto something here.

i know one patrick. he is a gay patrick.

WAIT! 2...

oh no nm i know straight patricks too

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Don't judge me, love me!

This thread is going to devolve into searching Facebook for guys named Patrick, posting their pictures, and speculating about their sexuality

Judge
Law

oh no nm i know straight patricks too

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Ones that go by "Patrick" rather than "Pat"?

i usually go by "joe" and not joseph but i don't mind the latter at all

yes. though their both irish and v v private...

I will say, to ruin things, that one of my best gay friends goes by Pat.

But yeah, I agree with the stereotype/trend of gay men using full names. (The trend part being that it does seem to play out sometimes, the stereotype part being that it's also a caricature, and partly a caricature of gay men being somehow "fussy" enough to use full names instead of bro-ed out straight-guy nicknames or whatever.)

gay dude that i work with goes by "eddie" instead of "edward"

i've always hated "joey" (going back to ca. kindergarten)

I know a gay Bob and a gay Larry.

also he had marfan's

Like gay indie rocker Bradford Cox.

EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED

RAGNARRRRRRRRRRRRR

I hear "Bruce" and just think of Autralians and/or 1970s cologne-drenched hairy-chested manly-men (before that read as "gay")

russian gay name free association roulette

should I have put commas after every word

Robin

oh oh, i got a good one -- i just remembered one of my gay neighbors -- one of two co-habitating gay brothers, but anyway -- and he is named CLAUDE

although there are a few names i can think of that are so sissy at first glance but tend to be the nicknames of very staid, white, buttoned-up country-club types, q.v. any man nicknamed "bunny"

Yeah, you show me a guy called "Bunny," I will show you a guy I imagine as having boxed in prep school

WHAT DID YOU SAY ABOUT ME NABISCO

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http://www.hbo.com/thewire/img/castcrew/character_season04/bunnycolvin.jpg

Ha, I love the ep when Namond finds out that Mr. Colvin goes by "Bunny" and is told in no uncertain terms not to repeat it.

"All gay men have track lighting and all gay men are named Mark, Rick, or Steve."
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I am not gay. Much. But yeah, Brian.

I was once at a Rotary Club meeting with my grandad and this lady did a speech on women in the church ministry and her name was Gay Priest. Much lols in the room.

i know two gay dudes named "tomás"

― beyonc'e (max), Friday, December 5, 2008 9:28 PM (Yesterday)

haha! this is my middle name!

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Mary

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!

Gabriel Mary "Gay" Byrne (born 5 August 1934) is an Irish broadcaster. He was the presenter of the Late Late Show, from 1962 to 1999 except for one year.[1] He also presented a regular morning radio show on RTE. He is credited with being a catalyst in the transformation of Irish Society since the 1960s.[2] He broke many Irish social taboos by discussing many topics like contraception, homosexuality, and abortion.

ok that is hands down the gayest name ever

"uncle Gaybo"

I have never thought Gary to be a "gay" name. Bruce I can kind of see, I suppose, and certainly Ricky (or, uh, Steve apparently).

¯\(°_o)/¯

Tiarnán sounds pretty homo though ZING!!

^zinged

love the way the most revered Irish TV personality of all time was actually lovingly called "uncle gaybo" for his entire career. what a seriously fucked up country we are.

'feminine' / fussy names - Claude, Julian, Quentin, Gaylord - obviously sound like 'gay names'

names that are really quite masculine - mainly Bruce (which is big Aussie bloke name), possibly Lance too - maybe become 'gay' by inversion or because they're so masculine, in same way that one gay stereotype = bodybuilding, moustache

but beyond that, it's implausible to say that very average names like Steve, Patrick or, for goodness' sake, Gary are gay names. No way is Gary a gay name in the UK - along with Wayne and Darren it's the male equivalent of shop-girl names like Sharon and Tracey. ie: very average, Ford Cortina stuff, nothing gay about it.

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I just realised, most of the REALLY gay guys I know don't even USE male names. Otherwise gayest is Alex, I guess.

Oscar.

Stephen.

George.

Gok.

Dale.

Wanda

Actually what am I talking about, the gayest name is obviously Elton.

ctrl-f "dave"

I really doubt there's a gayer name for a guy than Wanda, tbh

Gary Barlow is not gay.

Is Wanda a man's name? I'd like to meet a woman called Wanda, actually.

She'll have a dick

Every Sebastian I know is gay.

Did this thread ever truly discover who the gayest man is?

Jonathan!

Gabriel Mary "Gay" Byrne

Oh, Mary!

isnt "mary" slang for a gay dude? like that scissor sisters song?

like in Falling Down..."take it easy Mary"

"this was actually uuuuused"

and in the bible too