With heaps of cash and a $180,000 sports car, Brank could have stopped there, but he had sunk his teeth into Burns and didn’t want to let go. Yim said Brank blew about $20,000 on hotels, clothes and bottle service. In a whirlwind of debauchery, they continued to San Francisco and then back down to L.A. After Vegas, the two friends stopped briefly in San Diego, then continued to Brank’s old stomping ground, Sacramento, where he gave his brother $10,000, according to Yim. On February 17, Burns wired Brank $500,000 from a Goldman Sachs account. Soon after, Brank and Yim tore through the desert in the sports car to Las Vegas, where they would do cocaine and hang out in strip clubs, celebrating the coming payday. He said he was blackmailing Donald Burns, a wealthy tech tycoon he met while escorting. While there may be some differences between gays and straights, there are lots of similarities.Two weeks earlier, Brank had arrived at Yim’s San Diego apartment in a sleek black Audi R8 sports car and calmly told his French-born friend over beers that he was about to collect half a million dollars. People have long mocked gay people, even attacked them, for being different. "Furthermore, there's nothing wrong with being a feminine man or a masculine woman."īut, of course, stereotypes can lead to ridicule and to violence. That can't be a good thing," Bailey said. "Denying stereotypes means that people have to disbelieve what is right there in front of their eyes. "I think that the typical straight man would have as many sex partners as the typical gay man if he could," Bailey said.īut, we asked Bailey, isn't stereotyping harmful? Women limit the amount of sex that straight men have. But, he said, it's because men, in general, want lots of partners and women, in general, do not. Many people do think that gay men are more promiscuous than straight men, and in fact, Bailey said, gay men do have more sex partners. The man who most people thought was straight was actually gay. But there were plenty of wrong guesses, too, showing that the stereotypes can be way off. People were accurate 60 percent of the time, which is better than chance. Could the testers determine who was gay and who was straight? Five gay and five straight men spent an hour mingling with dozens of people. With Bailey's help, "20/20" ran a test in 2004 to see if people could tell who was gay and who was straight. Researchers say it's because lesbians, on average, are attracted to more masculine occupations, and gay men tend to prefer more feminine occupations. There is research that suggests gay men do prefer certain professions, like fashion, interior design and hair coloring, and that lesbians are more likely to prefer sports and the military. Not all straight men are bad dressers," he said. But, says Allen, the stereotypes are not always true. "It's that you're obsessed with fashion, and that you tan a lot and that you color your hair," they said. What, we asked, are the stereotypes about gay men? We talked to Carson Kressley and Ted Allen, two of the stars of the hit television show "Queer Eye" about the stereotypes.
Most of us are just like everyone else.Īre gays just like straights? Or is Hollywood's frequent portrayal of gay men as feminine more accurate? 15, 2006 - Gay activists often criticize media coverage of gay pride parades, saying, correctly, that the media focus on the extreme, the more flamboyantly feminine men and very masculine women.