Without making any claims as to its reliability or how common it is - it occurs to me that one of the most tricky things about being homosexual would likely be
1) identifying likely partners
2) identifying supportive friends
These are tricky enough for straight guys. (Myself included). But the odds are much worse for gays. So... if a conversation style, clothing or look helps helps some gays/homosexuals/bisexuals identify each other, I can imagine that some may deliberately or unconsciously (?) amplify that on occasion. Both for the above reasons and perhaps also, to throw down the gauntlet to the rest of us. Something like - "if you are going to disapprove, show your views now".
Well there's my bullshit hypothesis. Make of it what you will. It's quite possibly wrong..
Perhaps to further inflame this touchy subject - there seem to be highly codified/patterned exchanges between hetro guys at work (insulting each other, or football related) and between some girls (~15 mins of exclamations and OMGs before starting what seems like normal conversation).
I'm not qualified in this area.
My guess is that these are all some variety of handshake/protocol exchanges. I probably do it myself with my friends (I'm hetro) - but in a different way that I cannot detect. Dunno. There must be people who have researched all this properly, in the social sciences or humanities depts?
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