Are any of you guys (or gals) often mistaken as gay?

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I've had many people assume I am gay, and have had several girls approach me walk away disappointed because I wasn't interested in them after I made brief eye contact. The way I look and the way I handle myself may very well indicate to others this exact thought. I remember one gay person a couple years back who thought I was gay, but the irony is I took one of his girl friends home from some fun that night.

Yes, I get chatted up by women quite often. Mind you I do have a couple of gay friends and we go to specifically gay or gay-friendly pubs, so it's a fair assumption in that environment, but it's happened even in mostly-straight environments too.

I shake my head in bemusement that the women who try to chat me up are always gorgeous, interesting, sweet, funny, and if I wanted a girlfriend I could have my pick of the best, but I'm 100% hetero!

We've had this conversation over in the Adult forum... yeah, I've been mistaken for gay - usually by the football fans who expect men to be knuckle-dragging, aggressive morons.

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ALL THE TIME. I'm androgynous, so I have short hair, I'm pretty thin for my height, and I bind my breasts to give myself a more unisex figure. I only usually wear foundation and sometimes lipgloss. People always assume that I'm a lesbian. When I tell them I'm asexual they always ask if that means I'm a hermaphrodite >:(

A couple of times. I have the advantage of having a really deep voice and lot of facial hair, neither of which are things widely regarded as "gay", so it probably doesn't happen to me as often as it does to other people who act the way I do around women...

I was mistaken for asexual once...

Yes. Usually mistaken as gay. sometimes asexual.

Yep. Evidently my best friends now were on the fence about it for a while. I'm at least 80-90% straight though. I think I'm just comfortable enough with my sexuality not to be bothered.