New York men's gay/straight confusion
Author: Jonty Skrufff
Tuesday, October 3, 2006
A new study of the sex lives of over 4,000 New York males has revealed that over one in ten who identified themselves has heterosexual had sex with a man in the last year, according to a report in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
"Doctors need to ask patients about specific sexual practices instead of relying on self-reported sexual orientation to assess risk for unsafe sexual practices and risk for sexually transmitted diseases," said Dr Preeti Pathela, the author of the study.
"Public health prevention messages should not be framed to appeal solely to gay-identified men.”
New York club promoter Daniel Nardicio, who also runs social networking website D-List (targeting ‘the new gay - men in their early twenties to thirties, who may live outside the gay ghetto, and though proud and not afraid to flaunt their queerness, do not care to be classified as gay’) was unsurprised.
“New York is really pretty Latino and black, and both groups tend to claim to be straight but have lots of gay sex and that ratio one in ten seems about right to me,” said Daniel. “If you go onto Craigslist and put up a straight profile looking to fuck a guy, you'd be amazed how many guys you'd get.”
Daniel, who’s recently expanded D-List to become “MySpace tailored specifically for gay men” runs the site with the catchphrase 'Recruiting Faggots Since 1984', though told Skrufff their motto is just a tease.
“I love to play on the whole concept that straights are afraid that we recruit people to be gay. That's no more possible than trying to get me to eat pussy,” he laughed.
“I do not believe every man is potentially gay, just as I do not believe every gay could be potentially straight, as many fag hags contend. I think there's a whole palette of behaviour and tastes, and I think lots of men are just into attention, wherever the source,” he suggested.
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