Gay T-Shirts Bring Extra Shame
Once upon a time—to be specific, 1992 in San Francisco—a friend and I saw a t-shirt in a gay store that read simply "Let go of my ears, I know what I'm doing." Oh how we laughed. Mostly because, JESUS, REALLY? Now—and surely we are late to this horrible party, but, so sad, not so late that we didn't accidentally ever find out about it—there is a huge online store of "witty gay t-shirts." We learned this because they advertise on everyone's fave raunchy gossip blog Dlisted, and good for them. But still, basically, if I see any of you in these, you are on your own.
I'm remembering the gasps heard when a woman wore a "I'm not a lesbian, but my girlfriend is" shirt on one of the very early Real Worlds. Edgy!
I may have shared this story on The Awl already (I only have one gay t-shirt story and not many occasions to share it, sorry), but a friend of mine some years ago gave me a "I'm not gay but my boyfriend is" t-shirt, and my girlfriend took to wearing it.
These are also popular with seaside white-trash resorts (well, not the gay part). Saw a guy at the gym with some fishing 'It's this big, I swear' or something like shirt. And I thought, huh, could be funny to do really dry, bland versions for companies that nominally could make them though they would be terribly inappropriate. Like, a family office (ask Bakes) could do a shirt that said "Making sure your children are well-endowed".
Ew. God, gays are just as disgusting as normal dudes.
you mean straight, not normal.
That was the joke part.
a'ight.
Looks like the perfect thing to wear in one's cage.
No self-respecting geigh would be caught wearing something so tacky.
Actually, I'm probably wrong.
Pitcher? Catcher?
honey, I own the stadium.
*snaps fingers
You're not wrong. The key phrase is "self-respecting".
The Castro. Where else can you pick up a replica Greek statue with enhanced bits AND a gallon of lube … at the same store?
Cliff's Hardware?
The poor man's Pete's Candy Store?
Not yet!
1989.I am tending bar at a club in San Francisco wearing a shirt that says "Just Do Me." The horror.
In college, I had a t-shirt that said "Homo" in Honda's typeface. As I recall, there was also a Lesbian t-shirt Lexus' typeface.
I'm particularly aghast at the one on Page 2 that says "Big Load," because what is that, some kind of scat thing?
I'm just trying to have the site on my screen without people at work asking what the hell am I looking at.
Nobody is commenting to the name of the company?
http://www.swishembassy.com
Is there a lesbian exemption? Because my girl would look really cute in the "butt pirate" shirt.
They're just not very well designed.
These gay t-shirts are different than the sports theme ones I used to see around WeHo a few years ago. Sad to see the Ed Hardy-esque designs seeping into the Abercrombie-esque ones.
Glee used a gag-reflex joke two weeks ago, so that ought to sell lots of those tee shirts to us straights. Because watching Glee isn't gay in the least.
A guy at my gym was wearing a gay.com T-shirt (sleeves cut off, of course), that read "We're recruiting." Really. And it's not even a "gay gym."
I almost threw up into my pre-workout Creatine enriched protein beverage.