These “IRL” encounters can, understandably, feel awkward at first, as this one did when we had all gathered for dinner earlier in the evening at a crowded Italian cafeteria. James Bond” and “ My Gay Card Has Been Revoked.” But in cities like Boston, New York, L.A., Toronto, and even London, they try to regularly “meet-up” at a local restaurant or bar, exchanging Reddit’s upvotes and downvotes for proper handshakes and side-hugs. As we trudge through the fresh powder toward South End, the 10 or so guys I’m walking with jostle and joke their way forward through the frigid air, bouncing with that particular surge of giddy energy you sometimes get when you’re hanging out with people you have never met in real life.Īs members of Gaybros-a Reddit-based community for gay guys with traditionally manly interests like sports, hunting, and beer-the large majority of their bonding takes place through comment threads under topics like “ Ron Swanson vs. It’s a snowy Saturday night in Boston, and the bros are moving in pack formation.
