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Hi Geraden ! , First off all , Thankyou for producing such an interesting site ! . Now if i may , Please may i leave a comment about one of your ' blog's '. It is in your introduction about yourself - where you describe the reasons why YOU wear tights , all fine and good , except you mention that you are ' straight' and not gay ,by doing this , in a way , you seem to suggest that if all gay people wear tights that is a fair assumption to make , even as it being the norm.....Well i'm gay & i wear tights & i'd just like to say , that i too face the same 'disdain' and 'horror' from the ' gay world' , as you do in the ' straight world ' , So my point is , it really DOESN'T matter , whether you are gay or straight ,men wearing tights , all face the SAME uphill battle , for acceptance etc , Thanks John

Hi John

Thank you for your comment. You and I do not make the mistake of thinking that because a man wears and likes to wear tights he must be gay.

However I am afraid that a lot of people do subscribe to this line of reasoning, which I call the 'gay myth'. So many do so that I find it necessary to point out from time to time (a) that people are wrong if they think I am gay or have any homosexual inclinations and (b) that the incidence of hosiery wearing among gay men is very much less than it is a among straight men.

I know that gays who wear tights have a hard time in the gay world. They have the mistaken stigma of abnormality. Straight men who wear tights have this as well, and in addition their sexual orientation is often called into question, which in this context is hardly a mark of approval!

We need to educate people, whether they are straight or gay, that sexual orientation and a love of hosiery are completely separate things.

Geraden