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Title: From the auction site
Post by: andyg0404 on June 16, 2013, 03:44:00 PM

Hi,

Just came across this.

Little Boys in Dresses with Ladies Hats & Purses, Gay Int Circa 1950 Photo CUTE
 
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Little-Boys-in-Dresses-with-Ladies-Hats-Purses-Gay-Int-Circa-1950-Photo-CUTE-/161047114428?pt=Art_Photo_Images&hash=item257f27f2bc

Andy G

Title: Re: From the auction site
Post by: Celeste on June 17, 2013, 06:22:02 AM

It's a cute photo but pretty offensive that the seller would think it's of gay interest.

Title: Re: From the auction site
Post by: Betty on June 17, 2013, 12:32:44 PM

Yeah. Although I'm gay, many of the crossdressers here are married with children... some with grandchildren.

Title: Re: From the auction site
Post by: Robyn Jodie on June 18, 2013, 10:40:02 AM

Don't get me started!  This is one of my Ebay pet peeves.

"Gay Interest" or "Gay Int" is a totally useless tag added mostly by idiots who have no idea what would or would not interest "gays" -- presumably meaning gay males.

I've seen a photo of a man with his arm around his girlfriend labeled "Gay Int" because the man was wearing an old-fashioned baggy "Speedo"  type bathing suit.

As a search term, "gay int" yields too many false positives to be of any value; excluding it from your search yields way too many false negatives to be of any value.  I have no idea why anyone would waste space in the space-restricted title of an object on Ebay with "Gay Int" except that they can't think of anything descriptive to say.