Gaydar Radio

I was poking around blogs when I came across a reference to Gaydar Radio. Funny that.

I wonder how long the term "gaydar" has been around? Well we know it couldn't pre-date "radar," which dates from the mid-40's, so it's fairly recent.

I know that when I was in Keflavik, Iceland, in the very early 70's, we used the term quite a bit. It was that 2nd sense that you discover as a newly liberated person (ie., you no longer live with mommy and daddy), who just happens (!I hate this kind of reference!) to be - gasp! - g-a-y. It was often the only way you could get a bead on someone who-just-might-be One of Us. Otherwise, you could get investigated and thrown out of the service. What a crock.

But, I digress. Gaydar Radio is interesting. I haven't listened to it very long yet, so I haven't got a sense of whether or not it's worth my time and effort of coming back to more that a couple times. I generally do not label my music as being gay or not gay. I think that is a foolish exercise, as well as quite artifical. A song is good, it either says something or not, and you want to listen to it.

However, I do understand that there may be a growing genre of songs with content that has a gay thread - and perhaps the only venue they would have would be something like Gaydar Radio. If that is the case, the more power to them. Everyone's voice should have a platform from which to rise. And Internet Radio is certainly a vastly spreading venue.

In my 50 years, so much has changed... the world is so much smaller - and larger - than it ever was as when I was a child.