Gay tribe list
LGBT+
It seems to me that a lot of people don’t know much about the gay tribes, at least on this app. I want to be able to help and provide some insight!
First Off: What Are Gay Tribes?
The gay tribes are terms that are used by gay and bisexual men, in gay communities. They are key words meant to describe different men’s body types, and helps for men to detect the kinds of men they enjoy to be around visually. These are casual terms, not every gay or bisexual male uses them, and they’re dominantly for fun.
What Are The Gay Tribes?
(In no particular order)
1) Bears
Bears are the picture of masculinity in men. The body type they have is being hairy and big, either through muscle or fat.
A younger version is called a Cub.
2) Otters
Otters are similar to bears in that they are also hairy. However, they are usually more slender, and often more toned than a bear.
3) Jock
The jock type are men who are extremely fit, and are very into physical health.
4) Show Queen
This is the drag queen, a popular group in the gay men’s collective. Drag, music, show, and performance are traits to this, less about body type.
5) Twinks
This group is full of young, slender boys.
Types
Some gay men operate types to detail, identify and transmit themselves. Who hasn't heard someone exclaim “he’s my type" or been asked if a guy is yours? There is always some disagreement around the terms we exploit and whether we should use them at all.
Therefore, you should be sensitive if applying a type to someone, bearing in soul some gay men reject them altogether as narrow, superficial, and demeaning. Equally, some use types affectionately and as a convenient shorthand.
It's a bit of a bear pit (no pun intended), but here's our take on types, though you are perfectly entitled to throw them out and be your own gay, your own homo, lgbtq+, etc.
Physical types and personal characteristics
Some guys are primarily attracted to physical types of gay men (eg: bears, twinks, and muscle guys) while some spot characteristics in men most attractive (eg: warmth, intelligence, and humour). Others mix and match and understanding these distinctions is important.
For example, the type(s) of men we discover attractive sexually may not necessarily be the qualities we are looking for to sustain a relationship. Trouble is, we can obtain so caught up in a type we can misplace sight that not far ben
Two-Spirit
Though Two-Spirit may now be included in the umbrella of LGBTQI+, The legal title "Two-Spirit" does not simply mean someone who is a Native American/Alaska Native and gay.
Traditionally, Native American Two-Spirit people were male, female, and sometimes intersexed individuals who united activities of both men and women with traits singular to their status as Two-Spirit people. In most tribes, they were considered neither men nor women; they occupied a distinct, alternative gender status. In tribes where Two-Spirit males and females were referred to with the matching term, this status amounted to a third gender. In other cases, Two-Spirit females were referred to with a distinct term and, therefore, constituted a fourth gender. Although there were crucial variations in Two-Spirit roles across North America, they mutual some common traits:
- Specialized work roles. Male and female Two-Spirit people were typically described in terms of their taste for and achievements in the function of the "opposite" sex or in activities specific to their role. Two-Spirit individuals were experts in traditional arts - such as pottery making, basket weaving, and the ma
The Guysexual’s Guide To Gay Tribes And What They Mean
Kartik is having an existential crisis.
What is it? The inevitability of death? The crushing loneliness of realising all humans inherently are and will die alone? The meaninglessness of his dead-end job? The purpose of life? I’ve clearly thought this through.
Kartik shrugs, it’s worse. He doesn’t know what his gay tribe is.
What is a gay tribe?
No, a male lover tribe is not a community of still-surviving, nomadic queer men. A tribe is, in truth, a social grouping of lgbtq+ men based solely on their ~body type~ key physical characteristics. Also a feature of Grindr’s profile settings, tribes exist to aid you find men you are attracted to, based on the quantity of hair on their bodies, and muscle on their bulk.
You start off with some pretty self-explanatory stereotypes: Twinks, Femmes, Geeks, Jocks and Daddies. And then in descending order of size/hair (yes, hair) and kink, you’ve got Bears, Wolves, Cubs and Otters. Is this marginalising the gay community or moulding a human zoo?
Kartik thinks that gay men shouldn’t be sorted into tribes according to their body type; this isn’t Hogwarts. He also finds it difficult to relate to any one