First, a little context.
So this might have nothing to do with anything, but being ignorant about it, I’d like to at least make an attempt to figure out.
I don’t actually know very many gay people in person.
I have this one gay friend that lived near my childhood house. He’s like 10 years younger than me, he’s really more of my younger sibling’s friend than mine, but he’s often around when I see them, and we’ve had a bunch of weed sessions together. Anyway, I have him on snap because of this.
On to the main question.
He sends a lot of selfies to his story that have him with his tongue just hanging out as far as it goes. Given his flamboyance, I assume this means something gay, but I’m not sure.
I feel like on Lemmy this goes without saying, but I’m totally supportive of that (in stark contrast to how I grew up), but this is such an odd quirk that I’ve never even heard mentioned in any other circumstance.
I don’t necessarily think it’s a cutesy promiscuous thing, he’s had a boyfriend for a couple years now.
Is this face gesture a thing? Or maybe it’s just a him thing…?
Somebody here let me know.
I think you maybe be extrapolating here from too tiny a dataset. Type “tongue out selfie” into the search engine of your choice and be amazed at how many people have written dissertations on the subject. The simplified take is it started with teenage girls and spread from there.
That’s kinda why I was asking. I didn’t think a search would really find that, so I just cast a net to get human insight.