What is Gay About Going Barefoot?

Is it because the act of going barefoot in public in "counter" to the norm that homosexual people are attracted to it as a quiet way of showing their difference? Just as many hetero people go barefoot, or used to, or would now if social strictures weren't so tough. Is it because being barefoot "unzips" a part of the budy that is normally clothed and makes it "available" for sensation? What's the deal?

 

I'm as straight as an arrow, and I go barefoot all the time.

 

I never heard that there was anything gay about it. What a strange idea.

 

The only time I can see it being "gay" is when guys paint their toes. Or wear a few toe rings.

 

im in mate tomorow bear foot all the way peace

 

Huh? Hardly a norm

 

i do both of these of these and i'm not gay, no offense but this is more sterotypical nonsense that you hear all the time, i mean i wear toe rings all the time, maybe not paint my toes all the time, but either way its just fashion, not sexual orientation.

 

I agree with toeringguy, it is just a fashion statement not gay to wear toe rings or to paint one toe nails. It's a very judgmental, homophobic point of view to see going barefoot, wearing toe rings, or painting ones toe nail as gay.

 

What I noticed about gay men is, that they are (the typical gay guys I met so far) are very style-conscious folks, and they do take great effort in choosing the rightstylish attire, including shoes matching the outfit.

Therefore, there's nothing typically gay about bare feet, regardless of possible colored toenails or toe rings... at least, according to my experience.

For lack of knowledge, sometimes loud-mouthed fasion-victim-type teenagers yell "faggot" or the like at male barefooters. Those individuals are just plain clueless.

Wiggling non-gay toes (well, non-straight ones, either... ),

~*Ganesha*~

 

I remember back in the 90's when it used to mean you were gay if you were male and had only one ear pierced. I don't think it means that anymore.

Maybe bare feet are the new earring.

 

Maybe it's homophobic, but if I see a man with painted toe nails, it would make me think he's gay.

 

In the UK it depends on which ear, tradutionally the right ear meant you were gay.

going back to the start of the last century wearing a red tie was a sign

And I have no idea how I know that

 

I'm gay and hardly conscious of style. I enjoy going barefoot for reasons independent of my sexuality. It just feels so much better. Shoes just feel very constricting. Sure, it's more sensual than wearing shoes and/or socks, but that really wasn't the main draw of barefooting to me. Barefooting is about liberating my feet from the stuffy, sometimes tight, and hard foot coffins that shoes are. Basically, I like barefooting for the same reasons many of you like it.

Perhaps gay people are more open about their desire to go barefoot and are more able to be out comfortable doing it because of their experiences. It's hard being part of the minority sexual orientation, and with all this coming out business, coming out as someone who desires to go barefoot is easy compared to coming out as gay to people that we care about who might take it the wrong way.

 

NO!

 

I wouldn't be too sure about that nowadays. Statistics might say that, but closed doors don't.

 

I, too, am gay. My barefooting has nothing to do with my sexual preferences.

 

I'm gay and go barefoot, but going barefoot isn't gay. I too enjoy the freedom of being foot free, not having my feet confined in shoes.

 

i think flip flops are gay. barefoot is ok/..

 

So, basically, "gay" is something you don't like to do (or, in this case, wear)? Also, you think that "gay" is not "ok"? Wow.

Anyway, I think the whole premises of this thread are flawed.

 

The "premises," such as they are, ARE flawed. There is NOTHING "gay" about going barefoot; it's an activity pursued by all groups of people. Maybe, and only maybe, it happens that some gay people sometimes express themselves more emphatically than do others. I've often tried to organize social barefoot groups, and invariably those who responded were predominantly gay (by their own admission). And the fact that this happened is only an observation; there is no "value judgment," explicit or implicit. Those particular gay people were, in addition, foot fetishists, which, because I was entirely new to barefooting, was problematic. MY fault, MY bias entirely. I've since learned to separate out the elements.