What is the "gay lifestyle" that religious people keep talking about?

There is no such thing as a gay lifestyle. Gay people aren't like the Borg; we aren't clones of each other living in the exact same way. It's just another tactic the fundies use to dehumanise gay people.

The "gay lifestyle" means choosing to not have a problem with being gay and not doing anything to change. It refers to having same sex relationships and the like.

There is a lifestyle for straight people as well.

Since I believe that engaging in homosexual acts is wrong, for me, the "gay lifestyle" for me, personally refers to same sex relationships, marrying someone the same sex, two people of the same sex raising a child, supporting gay marriage. Basically, it's deciding that it's okay.

Edit: Everyone has a lifestyle. When we say gay lifestyle, we are only reffering to the relationship aspect, not the way you live in general. But, yes, if you wish to say that two unmarried people living together are living a straight lifestyle, that can certainly be part of a straight lifestyle.

Who knows? Being gay is not a "lifestyle". A lifestyle is like jet setting all over the world, Summer in the Hamptons, dining in the most fabulous expensive restaurants, wearing the most expensive designer clothes. Being gay is who you are. When people say being gay is a choice, I guess that means that they personally have made the choice to not be gay. At some point in their life, they had to decide which to be and they "chose" to be straight.

I'm not sure. But plenty of non-religous people talk about it. Two gay friends of mine used to joke that they lived a "gay lifestyle". One brought it up when I asked him what the heck kind of weird techno music he was listening to. That's what brought up the subject. They joked about how you can always tell a straight man from a gay man by the way he shakes hands and hugs. But I don't get it just like I don't get the whole "metrosexual" lifestyle either.

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1. Living together as a gay couple.

2. Practicing unnatural sex within the gay relationship.

3. Burning in lust for the same sex instead of the normal natural way of having the desire for the opposite sex.

4. Trying to "marry" a gay couple when God doesn't honor the gay couple OR the marriage, which he made between a man and a woman.

I eat and drink and sleep and use the computer and listen to music and play online RPGs and write and engage in psychotropic journeys.

So, apparently, that's my "gay lifestyle".

I think that they mean drag queens, public semi-nudity, wild parties, orgies, etc. I think some people think that all gays are having sex in the streets. I heard on tv the other day some preacher saying that masculinity is being stolen. It was ridiculous and sad. Many male and female roles are societal not genetic. People should allow people to be themselves as long as they aren't hurting anyone else.

It's parodied in an "American Dad" episode, love of musicals, tanning, alcohol, beauty regimes ect

Sounds fun actually. I've never met a gay man like this though.

There is a very pervasive stereotype that gay men are very promiscuous. I have noticed that in some of my gay friends as well. I don't fool myself into thinking it's all gays that are promiscuous though.