Passion Play – A Romantic Gay Game for Two
Dating site OK CUPID regularly digs into their database of registered users who are looking for love to see if there are any interesting trends to report. For example, remember when Web Watch wrote about HOW TO WRITE THE PERFECT DATING EMAIL? Yeah, that was from OK Cupid.
In other words, when it comes to reporting what real-world daters are really going through, they have a good idea of what’s going on. Which is why, when OK Cupid decided to look at GAY DATING TRENDS vs STRAIGHT DATING TRENDS, you have to trust that they know what they’re talking about.So using data gleened from over 4 million dating match profiles, here are some of the things that OK Cupid says that gay people are looking for:
Gay men:
- the devil wears prada
- britney spears
- mean girls
- kelly clarkson
- the color purple
- project runway
- drop dead gorgeous
- running with scissors
- m.i.a.
- imogen heap
- a boyfriend
- lily allen
- lady gaga
- the theater
- katy perry
- buffy the vampire slayer
- tori amos
- joni mitchell
- owl city
- the right guy
- david sedaris
- american idol
- harry potter
- angels in america
- modern family
Gay women:
- the L word – this was #1 by a wide, wide margin on the survey result
- tegan and sara
- ani difranco
- piercings
- the color purple
- social justice
- cat power
- a girlfriend
- running with scissors
- the perks of being a wallflower
- buffy the vampire slayer
- my girl
- harold and maude
- law & order svu
- tori amos
- writing poetry
- rilo kiley
- janis joplin
- bitch
- if ur
- imogen heap
- my animals
- the used
- cuddling
- damien rice
Two other interesting items that came out in the same report:
- gay people are not any sluttier than straight people.
- One-third of the straight women surveyed have hooked up with another woman…. and of those who haven’t hooked up, 25% said they would like to.
Of course, if reading researched data is not what you’re interested in, you could always poke your head over to THINGS GAY PEOPLE LIKE or STUFF GAY GUYS LIKE for some comic relief.