What if gays had red hands?

[Lube]

What would you do, and why?

 

[Paws]

What would you do, and why?

Stop masturbating.

 

[Lube]

Let's keep this on-topic and serious, please. Thanks.

What would you do if there were constant physical evidence that you were gay? What if it were much harder to be closeted?

Would you not bother trying to be closeted? Would you freak out? Try to commit suicide? Could you handle it?

Would you try extra hard to be closeted?

What? And why?

 

[quasar]

I'm confused now, I'd just prepared an answer about red hands, but now it seems the thread is really about being in the closet or not.

 

[Lube]

I'm confused now, I'd just prepared an answer about red hands, but now it seems the thread is really about being in the closet or not.

In a literalist world, I suppose Shakespeare wrote irrelevant stories about a Danish king, Anne Frank wrote about living in a basement, and Harry Potter is about some demented kid's fantasy.

I guess there's no room for metaphor, simile, or extrapolation to real life in such a literal world.

 

[kevbo]

If we gays had red hands, I'd have to wonder about where we'd even be right now.

For instance, what if the extreme religious freaks out there had used it as an identifier to kill us off?

Or, conversely, would we be more accepted than we are today since society would have known it wasn't a choice since we would have been born with the red hands?

 

[geloge]

At this point of my life I don't care people knowing I'm gay, plus it would be easier identify another gay guys

 

[Lube]

Very interesting replies! Thought provoking. Nice job.

 

[AussieGuy91]

If we gays had red hands, I'd have to wonder about where we'd even be right now.

For instance, what if the extreme religious freaks out there had used it as an identifier to kill us off?

Or, conversely, would we be more accepted than we are today since society would have known it wasn't a choice since we would have been born with the red hands?

I'm more inclined to share these thoughts.

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

What would you do, and why?

humanity no figure how walk two feet yet ans

may da blood of da rivers end
catch da eyes
of da livin
what not dead



amazin

 

[cityboy-stl]

It would be a good thing...probably. There would no closeted, homophobic religious nuts nor self-loathing right wing bigots using homosexuality for their personal advancement. On the other hand it could be seen as sort of a gay "racism" and used as a basis of discrimination. I can see it going both ways at the same time.

It is Christmas though so I might peroxide one hand and dye it green.

 

[gsdx]

Anne Frank wrote about living in a basement

Anne Frank lived in an ATTIC! She wrote a diary of the real-life horror she and her family went through. How can you possibly compare that to Shakespeare or Rowling?

 

[ShihTzuTylenol]

Anne Frank lived in an ATTIC! She wrote a diary of the real-life horror she and her family went through. How can you possibly compare that to Shakespeare or Rowling?

yeah, that's like comparing apples and oranges.
Apples with red hands and oranges with orange hands.

 

[PrettyWings]

What color would Bisexual's hands be?


I supposed I would have probably bleached my skin when I was younger, seeing how I was trying to hide my attraction to guys from everyone.

 

[diamondstar]

I will hide and live underneath a hole in the Subway and allowing my fellow red hands to join. We would call ourselves the Queerloks. NO OUTSIDER!

P.S.: I would also wear an eye patch

 

[ShihTzuTylenol]

If my hands were red, I think I might paint my fingernails green to celebrate the holidays.

But what color are the heterosexual's hands in this hypothesis of yours?
I'ma be pist if they get to have blue hands!Blue's my color -- it brings out my eyes with the right sweater. I couldn't do red hands, beige maybe, or perhaps lavender, but RED!? Come on dude!

 

[jackmanor]

I guess there's nothing new under the sun. Another gay man wondered about the same sort of predicament:

This was written by A.E. Housman (1859-1936)

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?
And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists?
And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air?
Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

'Tis a shame to human nature, such a head of hair as his;
In the good old time 'twas hanging for the colour that it is;
Though hanging isn't bad enough and flaying would be fair
For the nameless and abominable colour of his hair.

Oh a deal of pains he's taken and a pretty price he's paid
To hide his poll or dye it of a mentionable shade;
But they've pulled the beggar's hat off for the world to see and stare,
And they're haling him to justice for the colour of his hair.

 

[FirePhoenix]

Having our hands or something have a color would be awesome so we could spot other gay guys but really it does get me thinking about how many parents would put children with red hands up for adoption etc.

I think it would be awesome if it happened when we go through puberty like a way of coming of age like how a male peacock gets its more colorful feathers when it matures.

 

[quasar]

I'd bleach them - but it has nothing to do with staying in a closet or hiding my sexuality!

 

[G-Lexington]

I'd insist that not all gays had red hands, and that having red hands didn't necessarily mean a guy was gay.

Lex