Crossdressers?

[Ace of Blue Spades]

Just a little question I've been wondering about. Do any of you think gay when you here a man or a boy crossdresses? And I don't mean a drag queen, either. I just mean guys who happen to like dressing like women.

After all, with so much yaoi presenting ukes as men in name only, a lot of those characters might as well be girls for all the purpose they serve in the story.

BTW, I don't equate crossdressing with being gay.  

[[Romiette]]

Well I've met boys who crossdressed a bit but were perfectly at ease with their male gender and straight sexuality. They just liked looking elegant and pretty (like gothic lolita and visual kei-ish, I guess).  

[protecterofelements]

i like crossdressers they can be so cute sometimes and they can look better then girls  

[aa_beatrix]

I like the crossdressers, but I prefer them to be dressed up like men. X3  

[palindrome88]

Realistically, crossdressing =/= gay, though it tends to be the opposite in fiction. It's understandable, though.

When it comes to cross dressing...I'm not a big fan. I'm more attracted to guys that look, act and dress like guys. However, cross dressing by guys in fiction that aren't gay can be very interesting (even more so when they're dressing as a girl for reasons other than sex or for teh lulz. whee )  

[Elaborate Testes]

I only knew one cross dresser... and honey, she was the trampiest slut I've ever met. So my opinion has no real validity.  

[Ace of Blue Spades]

palindrome88

Realistically, crossdressing =/= gay, though it tends to be the opposite in fiction. It's understandable, though.

When it comes to cross dressing...I'm not a big fan. I'm more attracted to guys that look, act and dress like guys. However, cross dressing by guys in fiction that aren't gay can be very interesting (even more so when they're dressing as a girl for reasons other than sex or for teh lulz. whee )

Heh, I'm a writer and I've been tossing around this idea for a crossdressing guy who is assumed to be gay simply because he takes on stereotypically girlish behaviors, or is percieved to take on these behaviors by the other characters. However, his love interest is either a very tomboyish girl who has been present from the start, or this really elegant girl/woman that gets introduced halfway through. I can't decide. (However, this guy can kick a**; his father was afraid he'd get beaten up a lot, so he made him take karate lessons.)

I just think it's interesting play against common assumptions. It makes me think about it, and what motivates people and what makes them who they are.  

[Duke of Drag]

umm...

My friends and i dressed up one of our guy friends as a girl for halloween one year.
I did his make up and everything... XD (I want to become a make up artist...)

now hes gay. lol.
haha but it makes me happy that hes happy with his boyfriend now.
actually it makes me 'squee'. (hes the uke.xB)  

[EternalDreaming]

Well... if it helps, a friend's cousin dressed up as a girl last Halloween. He's 15 and straight(as far as we know XD )

I think any man can crossdress, but if they like it too much... There might be something more to it than just laughs, I think.  

[protecterofelements]

one of my friends had a 'congrats on being single again' party so we had the guys dress up like girls ....... they made ugly girls  

[duskydawn]

I find dressing up the male members of a group as females can be a very nice bonding activity. It's really nothing but harmless fun to say things like "Hey, I wonder how Mitch would look in a dress?" and get him to wear one. Bit of freindly gender-bending, wot? Get a few photos to pull out at his wedding and twenty-first bithday and all that. Jolly good show.

However, some dresses should never be tried on by anyone, let alone someone with hairy legs. When my drama class was cleaning out the costumes closet last year, one of the boys (the class clown/drunk) found a horrible, skintight, leopard-print minidress and tried it on. He looked, well... special. *insert brain-scarring mental image* THE PAIN!  

[SilverMaple]

Living in a country where seeing drag queens walk around the street is the norm, I have to say I don't even think about their sexual orientation. I just think, "Oh, that drag queen is prettier than that chick next to him/her." xd  

[Total Darkness]

I graduated from a high school where most of the male population either cross-dressed or mock-humped other guys, so I don't know. XDD; The cross-dressers I know are either straight or bi, actually.

I don't really think "gay" when I see a cross-dresser, but I will say it's hard for me to really try to figure it out on my own. XD

So, I decided to stop questioning and not think about it....too much.  

[iKaede Fuyou]

Im not sure. Like plenty of my guy friends dress as girls for Halloween and that doesn't mean they're gay.

But when I was Eleven, My mom and I were walking around Central Park in NYC and "women" passed by w/ linked arms, and my mom said very blunt, "Honey, Those are men." So..I guess it depends on the Situtaion and what they look like. XD

 

[protecterofelements]

i wonder what the best crossdresser would look like in anime/manga question