I know you have created your own mental concept of what a stereotypical gay man is like. Don’t lie and say you haven’t. I’m gay and do it all the time. So, I decided to take it upon myself to create a list of the 5 most common gay guys you’ll probably meet at least once in your life time.

1. The Gay Best Friend

This one I would say is the most common “stereotype” there is. Mostly because every gay person can be a gay best friend if they wanted to be. The gay best friend is the best possible best friend a girl could have (if I do say so myself) because most of the time, they understand how guys are complete dogs and understand your pain. Plus you MOST LIKELY don’t have to worry about the petty drama that some girls can bring with them.

2. Is he really gay?

In all honestly, excluding the GBF, I think this is the most common type of gay. Just because we like guys, just like straight girls do, doesn’t mean that we want to be just as girl as a normal girl. They might joke about and pretend to act fem as a joke a lot, but unless you were good friends with them, you would have never guessed that they’re gay. We are still MEN, we just happen to like other men also.

3. The Stereotypical Gay

That one gay character in every comedy you have ever seen. He’s loud (sometimes), he’s sassy, and has that “super gay” walk and demeanor about himself. In gay terminology, we call them ‘fems’. Before you matured and realized that being gay is okay and not weird, whenever you thought of a gay person you probably thought about this type of gay person.

4. The Sports Star

You honestly probably would have never known that this person was gay unless they told you. He was probably captain of the football team, and just never talked about his “romantic interest” so you automatically assumed he was straight. They are “a MAN”.

5. The Intellectual Gay

We all know he’s gay because he always brings up the topic of political debate of gay rights EVERY CHANCE HE GETS. If it’s not political topics it’s on the philosophy of homosexuality in general. They’re proudly LGBT, but it’s kinda over kill. Not all of them are boring/irritating. Some know how to turn it on and off so it is a lot less frequent and less irritating.