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Is that car gay?

While cars are no more straight or gay than cellphones, office chairs or weed whackers, that truism has not stopped a perception among some motorists that certain cars can, in the right context, might be statements about a driver’s sexual orientation, according to the New York Times.
At a time when car makers are marketing aggressively to gay consumers and mainstream culture has become more literate about stereotypically gay tastes, it may not be surprising that some people make such assumptions about motorists based on their cars, the paper reports.

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