Gaydar: Difference between revisions

* A bit fuzzy on the details, but it is used to detect heterosexuality in one episode of MTV's ''Undressed''. A woman in college is concerned that her boyfriend isn't sleeping with her, so she goes to a gay friend who, after asking her a few questions about her, decides that he is definitely straight.

* Mentioned in ''[[Friends]]''. Chandler's gay coworker implies that this is how he knew Chandler wasn't gay.

'''Lowell''': Pretty much, most of the time. We have a kind of... radar. }}

* In a Season 7 episode of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Willow tells Kennedy she wishes that she had some sort of "lesbidar".

* ''[[Glee]]'': Santana. This is how she figures Karofsky out.

** It also helps that he was blatantly checking out Sam's ass.

** [[Digging Yourself Deeper|He was checking out his jeans!]]

* There used to be a reality show Called ''Gay, Straight, or Taken?'' where single women would spend some time with three men and try to use their gaydar to figure out [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|which one was gay, straight and single, or straight and taken.]]

* On the American ''[[Life On Mars]]'', Annie has figured out that a man they're questioning is gay, listing several behavioral cues she'd noticed during questioning that Sam was oblivious to.

'''Annie''': "Gaydar." I like that. }}

 

** In the sequel comic ''[[Original Life]]'' Abigail attempts to make one, but abandons the project after seeing the [http://jaynaylor.com/originallife/archives/2011/09/240.html kind of people] who are [http://jaynaylor.com/originallife/archives/2011/09/241.html interested] in [http://jaynaylor.com/originallife/archives/2011/09/243.html it.]

* [[Gadgeteer Genius|Saundra]] of [[Umlaut House]] once built one, [[Explosive Overclocking|it blew up]] when she tested it on [[Flamboyant Gay|Rick]] and gave an inconsistent reading when she tried it on [[Anything That Moves|Volair]]

* Denmark [http://satwcomic.com/denmark-s-gaydar claims] to get this after five beers in ''[[Scandinavia and The World]]''. Sweden thinks he is just listing all the women he wants to see have lesbian sex.

* ''[[Spinnerette]]'' wishes her spider senses came with gaydar in [http://www.krakowstudios.com/spinnerette/2011/01/10/01102011/ this strip].

* ''[[Homestuck]]'': Roxy claims to have one that is very oversensitive, as a counterpart to [[Naive Everygirl|Jane]] who doesn't have one at all.

TG: truth [[Emoticon|B)]] }}