"Gay-vague," a NYT invention [UPDATED]

According to the Style section it's impossible to tell these days who's gay and who's straight. This report is, at the very least, premature. I went for a bike ride through Chelsea and the West Village, and nothing has changed, unless I am to believe that the men with "a bronzed, buffed, waxed gay ideal" body are in fact straight. That seems unlikely, especially since such men so often appear in pairs. And paired-off men are without a doubt the most gay-seeming of all, more than interior decorators, even.

I don't see why gaydar is supposed to matter. In any given case, a man's sexuality only needs to be determined by those who are interested in him in such a way that this would be an issue. But classifying for the sake of classifying strikes me as a waste of time.

UPDATE

Gerald DeCock, hairdresser, lives in the Chelsea Hotel, and was written up for the intriguing way he painted his own apartment... He and I have never met, but I'm sure he'd totally go for me.