Gay by Design, or a Lifestyle Choice?

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If you’re a dude and you drive a Miata, you must be gay, right? If you’re a woman and you drive an Outback, you must be a raging lesbian, correct? Not so fast–here we have the New York Times reporting on one of those subjects you’ve snickered about with your bff and thought of in your head, but wait a minute…are these rides “Gay by Design, or a Lifestyle Choice?”

Indeed, the extravagant displays of muscle car machismo and sensuous, high-design femininity on display this week at the New York International Auto Show at the Javits Center would seem to cry out for deconstruction along gender- and sexual-identity lines.

But to some people, such stereotyping is homophobia, pure and simple. A poll seeking to determine the most gay automobiles, conducted by a South African Web site, was a topic of heated interest last December on Gizmodo, the New York-based technology blog, where one reader wrote: “Since when are cars gay or straight? We’re really polling people’s prejudices here.”

Others, though, including gay theorists, say many gay motorists happily embrace certain cars as reflections of identity.

Here is the full article in case you are questioning your wheels…