I once got called the f-slur for having the audacity to read a book in public, outdoors in front of the library.

One story my husband shared with me was when he and my dad stopped into a local bar after working hard on home renovations all day. They planned to get some dinner and have some beer after a hard day's work but needed to wash their very dirty hands first. So they went back into the bathroom and washed their hands. Well apparently that was too "gay" for the owner of the bar and they went over to the bathroom and started saying things like "I don't know what you think you're doing in there" and "I just need to make sure you're not doing anything funny". So they ended up just leaving while the guy yelled at them saying they had to buy something.

A slightly different version of this concept also happened to my husband. At one point, 2 of our lady friends were talking about fashion and my husband, who is MUCH more fashionable than I am, chimed in. They proceeded to tell him that he's "not allowed to have an opinion because he's a man" which is the most double standard bullshit I've ever heard come out of any of my friends mouths. It's stuck with me for a long time now because I think it keeps me honest with myself about standards and reminds me to think about how opinions change when you flip genders.

Pull through parking. You know, where there are two spaces so you drive through one into the next so you can pull out of the one you park in without having to back up? I got told that was for “girls and gays”.

Suck dick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPDs-PwUcbg

Are we talking gay or gay?

That word gets thrown around a lot without actually meeting homosexual. Most of the time it's just used as a tasteless replacement for lame.

Stand in awe at a replica of Michaelangelo’s David.

Admittedly staring at a statue of a naked guy, but come on

I grew up in the 90s so just existing would cause people to call you gay.

Making quiche for brunch. Apparently an omelet is fine, but a scrambled omelette is gay.

Have a straw in a restaurant.

Let a man do squats over my face until my nose touched his shorts bulge. Wait. I’m gay.

unisex clothing == male clothing

so still cant buy anything with colors or style or anything even mildly feminine without the gay thing being thrown around

Oh god so so so many. I'm going to stick with music though for today.

You like ${artist}? That's gay.

Even more fun, "You like ${Track} from artist? That's the gayest track."

Guys are real quick to make sure everyone else knows how much manlier they are by what music they listen to.

Listening to metal music with female singers, on two separate occasions. The first was Planet Hell by Nightwish (from the End of an Era concert), and the second one was either Eluveitie or Dalriada.

Surprised no one has posted "use a straw" yet. That's definitely one of the more common ones . Weird as shit.

I went roller blading on the boardwalk along the beach during the pandemic and got called gay

Isn't there a whole meme for this. Fellas, is it gay to __?

I don't live in a shithole, so nothing.

Wait, does that ever actually happen as anything but a joke?

Use a Mac.