Do gay people walk fast

If “walking gay” really is a thing, it seems that walks gay people perceive speed to be a part of that. But while I still definitely am might be, it turns out that categorizing people, while indulging in a little bit of narcissism, is actually fairly normal behavior, particularly online.

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. Over the years I developed other orthopedic issues along with chronic back pain, and slowing people for others in my family.

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). On. Unfortunately I was always accused of being gay and fit into some stereotype just because of this.

Researchers spoke toBoth found the accuracy of these new tropes difficult to prove, but explored their complex and often contradictory origins. The only thing we should never tolerate within our community is bootcut jeans.

So already younger men in cities are the fastest walkers—perhaps gays just have an edge on that? Sam, a year-old gay man from London, agrees with this. Though Phillips also says that feeling confident can increase walking speed. Only in my teens did I find out I had scoliosis, and I considered fast walking as a race to rest.

To find out fast else was gay, I looked to popular-culture, where I saw gay men mostly adhering to a fairly one-dimensional set of stereotypes: fashionable, witty, effeminate. Confidence coach Lisa Phillips says that a fear of homophobia in strangers could make gay men walk quickly.

Look, not all gay men walk fast, but enough do that it has briskly become a stereotype that we gays are quick to claim. Psychologist Ian MacRae agrees that walking speed and style can be affected by either positive or negative emotions, but also says that gay men are statistically predisposed to walking gay.

For instance, gay men from cities like me might use this trope to subtly position themselves as superior to suburban and rural people, who they associate with being behind the times and irrelevant. Regardless of whether gay men really do walk fast, there are psychological reasons why many of us want to embrace the idea that we do.

People who speak or respond quickly, for example, are often considered wittier than slow speakers. Sign In. Save Story Save this story. From an elementary age I was bullied by my peers that I would walk fast. When stereotypes are positive, people can be particularly keen to adopt them.

But while it might seem like a fairly superficial stereotype, the potential reasons why gay men might be keen to embody velocity are anything but shallow. But while we wait for this vital research to be conducted, there are other factors at play to consider.

Historically, gay stereotypes have been even less kind. The audacity! “A couple months ago, I was shopping with my girlies, and one of them. A desire to be physically quick may be an embodiment of this, with the stereotype then filtering into our cultural lexicon.

Search Search. Strutting, or walking at a rapid pace, can be a way of displaying homosexuality in safe spaces. We know that gay men tend to gravitate towards urban areas, where walking is the default travel method. In that sense, the new (ish) stereotype that “gay men walk fast” is no different.