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Title: When Shopping for Gay Cars, Know Your Buzzwords: Tail Pipe, Stick Shift, Rims
Post by: Shana A on April 10, 2010, 09:12:39 AM
When Shopping for Gay Cars, Know Your Buzzwords: Tail Pipe, Stick Shift, Rims

http://www.queerty.com/when-shopping-for-gay-cars-know-your-buzzwords-tail-pipe-stick-shift-rims-20100409/ (http://www.queerty.com/when-shopping-for-gay-cars-know-your-buzzwords-tail-pipe-stick-shift-rims-20100409/)

What makes a car ... gay? We're pretty sure there's a blog dedicated to answering just that question, but at the New York Auto Show, reps from car makers like General Motors were on hand to explain it.

Aside from learning Saturn is the most popular GM brand for transsexuals, gossipeuse Ben Widdicombe traipsed among the new paint jobs and hears from GM's LGBT spokesman Joe LaMuraglia, who founded the site Gay Wheels, that it "isn't the person's sexuality, it's the person's lifestyle" that connects a queer with a car.

also see http://www.theawl.com/2010/04/the-new-york-auto-show-selling-otherwise-straight-cars-to-gay-people (http://www.theawl.com/2010/04/the-new-york-auto-show-selling-otherwise-straight-cars-to-gay-people)