While only a make-over show, it resonated with the viewing public because it mirrored something that was happening in the larger culture: gay men were rewriting many of the rules the defined the ideal
straight man. Perhaps it was inevitable that labels would soon pop up to describe this new type of male who, while not homosexual, seemed in some ways to be "gay." Terms like "stag-hag" (a play on "fag-hag") and "stray" (for "straight-gay") were applied to straight men who hung around gay ones.
Circling the square
A stylish
straight man might pick it but the rosary beads make me think this is a woman's choice.
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James, on the other hand, figured it out, gradually letting all the straight men no even before he knew some were straight, and confronting the last
straight man, Franklin, in a flair of anger in the final episode.
Eyes on the guys: gay men's turn on TV
For 43 years he entertained generations as Eric Morecambe's
straight man and at the height of their success the show pulled in 27million viewers.
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Kinsey, and as for kissing another
straight man, he says, "Kissing is kissing." In contrast, Peter Finch (who played the gay doctor in Sunday Bloody Sunday), when asked how he felt about his on-screen kiss with Murray Head, is quoted as saying, "I closed my eyes and thought of God and England."
The Sarsgaard scale
It's the fact that the 33-year-old software developer is a happily married
straight man.
Ohio's straight ally: David Caldwell has been knocking on doors to tell voters that legalized gay relationships are no threat to his marriage
Outside the theater his date told him that he seemed remarkably open-minded for a
straight man. "That was my moment of opportunity," Sklar says.
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Tanya is so obsessed with Sapna that she becomes psychotic on finding out that Sapna has been seeing a
straight man, who has pretended to be gay to win her affections.
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It was later revealed that Thacker, an HIV-positive
straight man, had called homosexuality a "sinful deathstyle" and AIDS "the gay plague." Thacker turned down the post following a rebuke from the White House.
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And a month after the school opened, they reported a scuffle between students and a
straight man who allegedly taunted them.
Fast times at Harvey Milk High: five arrests put the nation's only public high school for gay students back under the media spotlight
By the time of the Grand Entry at noon, it was clear this was no
straight man's--or woman's--rodeo.
Ride 'em cowboys! Straight writer Steve Wilson follows the trail to the ever-gay great plains Rodeo
American Pie (1999) In his first flick as "the Stifmeister," Scott is the butt of the
straight man's ultimate gross-out joke: A glass of beer spiked with, well, a creamy additive.
The best man
So think of a
straight man in your life who doesn't know you're gay or with whom you've never had a real conversation about your life.
Reaching straight men
I think every
straight man has the capability to have sex with another man.
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