Google Trends: Gay vs Straight

www.google.com/trends?q=gay%2C+straight



Someone at work (who shall not be named so as not to be tainted with these subject matter) told me about Google Trends today as a far more addictive toy to play with than Google Sets. I tried it out and he's darn right.

Here as per my own curiosity, I noted how while there are approximately twice as much "straight" news stories than "gay" news stories, there are more than 10 times as many "gay" searches than "straight" searches.

If Kinsey is right about that 10% of the (American) population is gay, then we see that the other 90% is at least very curious.





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Bar-hopping in NYC

Avery took me out for dinner at Mercer Kitchen on Friday (2008-01-18). Food was yummy. It was definitely a welcoming treat at the end of the SML Appendectomy event:

Roast Chicken



Slow-baked Salmon



My weird dessert: popcorn float



Dinner



And now... hot men spotted during the bar-hop afterevent:

Mark, 31yo, went to college in DC for international affairs, seen at Therapy



Brian, 33yo. T-shirt by Kenneth Cole. Seen at Vlada



Nate (NG), 29yo, also wearing Kenneth Cole. Seen at Vlada



Then we decided to hit to Eagle NYC:



Found this hot muffin Sean Donahue on the roof. Woof!



Rafael, doorman at the Eagle



We went to Barracuda and called it a night. Found Taylor J.. Hair by Sasa at Redge. Taylor is 24yo and lives in Astoria:



And that concludes my January gay bar hopping tour. Trust that I'll be doing more of these very soon.

Cheers,
SML

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All-Ivy / Seven Sisters Mixer / 2008-01-17

Went to my second All-Ivy / Seven Sisters Mixer this past Thursday at People and had a ton of fun. Avery told me all about it but he couldn't come at the last minute. But I'm glad that I went anyway.

As always, I'm taking photographs of hot men found at the party for my Ideal Husbands project. Here they are:

William Sofield / Princeton Alum



Michael Lewis, Harvard '94



Derrick Smith, Dartmouth '07



Malcolm Toussaint, Harvard '96



Julian Liu, Yale '98



Dartmouth '97 Babes - name unavailable



Went to Urge and 105 Rivington afterwards with Sean Chappin (Yale '98) but somehow the next day I got up I discovered I've got some very interesting photographs of the Cock. I wonder how I got there:





And that's a wrap!


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Levi's gay commercial

I was watching Project Runway today and I was surprised to find a well-made gay-themed commercial during the commercial break and of course I found it on YouTube!



It is very encouraging to me as more main-stream brands embrace the gay community for advertising. It's smart for them anyhow: the majority of the gay and lesbian household profile is double-income, no kids, and are people who have the drive to achieve much more (perhaps to prove a point to their family and peers) and thus will have a significantly stronger spending power than other market segments.

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"My Family Thinks I'm Gay" with Subtitles / YouTube

See more of Bo Burnham on YouTube

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