Written by Instinct Staff | Thursday, 24 January 2013
Tags: russian military, defense ministry, check, tattoos, private parts, sexual organs, soldiers, gaydar, sexual orientation, butt 
Tattoos on the butt or near sexual organs are as close to gaydar as the homophobic Russian Defense Ministry can get, apparently. According to the Ministry, tattoos in these regions indicate a person's sexuality, so it will naturally force soldiers to drop trou so that doctors can interpret their tattoos like some sort of inkblot Rorschach test.
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Written by Instinct Staff | Monday, 12 November 2012
Tags: anderson cooper, boyfriends, gaylebrities, david letterman, video, gaydar
On Friday night's The Late Show, our husband let David Letterman in on his next big closeted secret: his gaydar is in need of a tune up. That's right, Anderson has admitted that he's so out of touch with perceived sexuality that he is making us blush with jealousy as he is "pinging off the hook" about Letterman himself. Video after the jump.
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Written by Instinct Staff | Friday, 03 August 2012
Tags: bee in a jar, funny or die, gaydar, humor, fun with stereotypes, straight girls, metrosexuals, sexuality, gay, men, breeders
The economy is still struggling hard to recover from the historic recession. So, what's a broke straight girl with a questionable metrosexual boyfriend to do? According to a new video posted to Funny or Die, a bee in a jar is the perfect gaydar tool for our budget-conscious hetero girlfriends!
If you're an apiphobe or simply offended by stereotypes, do NOT follow the jump...
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Written by Instinct Staff | Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Tags: gaydar, studies, science, university of washington, joshua tabak, works better, women, men, gay, straight, lgbt
Any hopes of fine-tuning our Gaydar to make for less awkward moments at the gym have been dashed by a new study out of the University of Washington.
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Written by Instinct Staff | Wednesday, 28 September 2011
Tags: google gaydar, celebrities, jake gyllenhall, will smith, anderson cooper, gossip, rumors, internet, lgbt, out, closet
Our gaydar has taken years to hone and regularly requires martinis to fuel. But Google, in a matter of minutes, seems to have quietly given the entire Internet the power of gaydar with the quiet debut of a new search feature...
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Written by Instinct Staff | Wednesday, 07 September 2011
Tags: sexual orientation, perception, impression, people, strangers, science, studies, research, gay, white, black, men, gaydar
We'd love to think that being gay doesn't affect other people's impression of us. However, according to two studies out of the University of Toronto, even if a stranger hasn't picked up on the multitude of cue's we send the second we sashay into any door, people subconsciously and immediately form opinions based on sexual orientation. The shocking results, after the jump.
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Tags: gaydar, science, research, studies, university of toronto, women, ovulation, straight, sexuality, orientation, lgbt, culture, health
They might have been mere urban myths before, but two punchlines often utilized in the gayborhood—gay-face and gaydar—have been confirmed by a group of scientists. Details follow.
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Written by Instinct Staff | Tuesday, 24 May 2011
Tags: studies, science, research, language, sexuality, sexual orientation, straight, gay, gaydar, lgbt
While our neon-color-blocked DSquared booty-cut trunks and periwinkle Jack Spade beach bag certainly help, a new study finds that it's really the "u" when we scream "gurrrl!" at the beach that land us on the gaydar of those within earshot. Details follow.
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Tags: creation museum, discrimination, gaydar, kentucky
Kentucky's Creation Museum is under fire after a security guard denied entry to a man assumed to be gay. Guess evolution didn't install gaydar in the security guard because the man in question is straight.
Reports Kentucky's WAVE:
A heterosexual Louisville man said he felt discriminated against after he said a staff member refused him entry into a "date night" event, because it was assumed that he and a friend were a gay couple.
But officials with the Creation Museum say they did nothing wrong.
Jonathan Meador, Brandon Absher and their friend said the trouble began on February 11th at a "date night" event at the Creation Museum, when Absher told a security guard who his "date" was.
"We said: 'his name is Joe and he's coming... FULL STORY
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