Do gay people walk faster

“A couple months ago, I was shopping with my girlies, and one of. First things first, do people agree that queer folks walk faster than their straight counterparts? A slew of anecdotal evidence says yes. IE 11 is not supported. Is he gay or straight? Latest Stories U.

Melissa DahlMelissaDahlHealth writermailto:melissa. Do gay men walk fast? Observers' accuracy As the gay men walked, they slightly swayed their hips. Johnson and her colleagues attached motion sensors, like those used in the movie industry, to the hips and shoulders of eight volunteers — four men and four women, half of whom were gay.

Unfortunately I was always accused of being gay and fit into some stereotype just because of this. The motion sensors captured the only movements of the walkers, masking details such as clothing or hairstyles. Join Louis Staples as he sorts out fact from fiction in this common gay stereotype.

NBC News Logo. As the lesbians walked, they slightly moved their shoulders back and forth — Johnson calls it a less exaggerated version of an Arnold Schwarzenegger-type swagger. Skip to Content. But while it might seem like a fairly superficial stereotype, the potential reasons why gay.

Profile My News Sign Out. Sign In Create your free profile. It’s a well-worn stereotype: LGBTQ people walk fast — but all that fast walking has big health benefits according to a study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Search Search. Ultimately, we don’t know whether gay men actually do walk faster than straight men.

So, what. From an elementary age I was bullied by my peers that I would walk fast. Look, not all gay men walk fast, but enough do that it has briskly become a stereotype that we gays are quick to claim. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.

Research such as Johnson's may give scientific credence to "gaydar," suggesting that people really can tell whether someone is gay or straight from visual clues. That quick assessment can mean that the observer is associating that person with stereotypes they've heard — for example, that a gay man isn't as masculine as a straight man.

It’s not just boyfriends though, and it’s not just straight dudes (indeed, there’s even a petition to create “gay walking lanes” in the UK, because gay men supposedly walk so fast). At a glance, the key to telling might be in the way he walks. But when it came to identifying the sexual orientation of the women, it was all up to chance.

The researchers videotaped the volunteers walking on a treadmill at various speeds, and then played the video for undergraduate observers, who were asked to determine the sexual orientation of each person. Sections U. Follow NBC News. The observers were accurate in assessing the men's sexual orientation a little more than 60 percent of the time.

Next, Johnson plans to study the implications of judging someone's sexuality by those visual clues. But although the research is getting attention for its results about a distinction in how gay men walk, Johnson and her colleagues were more focused on studying the observers.