Originally posted by: return_to_hades
I have single friends who are straight. I have single friends who are queer. I don't get the logic behind wondering if a single person is gay. Relationship status has nothing to do with sexual orientation. It's a personal choice. Some people just don't like being in relationships. Some people struggle to maintain relationships. One of my friends would love to be in a relationship but has struggled with depression and drug use.
Also in homophobic countries (which was 99% of the world up until very recently) gay people had more reasons to be in relationships/marriage -- they'd marry early and try to cover up ya know. Straight people had the luxury to marry late or remain single as they had no fear of people finding their 'secret'. Gay/lesbian people, on the other hand, often married early and urgently because 1) they thought by marrying they'd be able to 'change' their sexuality and be done with it once and for all, 2) felt people would stop questioning them and suspecting them, and 3) family members, if they found out about them, would force them to marry to protect family's honor or whatnot...
So yeah suspecting a person to be gay just based on their single status is pretty silly.
On topic - yeah people suspect it but that's because I never try to hide it. But I don't give an answer either way. My sexuality isn't anyone else's business to speculate.
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