Why has techno/electronic music become stereotyped as being for homosexuals?

i’m assuming that it’s a generalization that people have come up with as a great amount of techno artists are pretty flamboyant. but i don’t know. stereotypes are silly. i was wondering this myself.

I’ve never seen this stereotype. I have seen techno users be seen as “weird” or X users, or other stuff, but never homosexuals.

Wasn’t aware of this. :S

Never heard of this stereotype before. Maybe it’s something to do with the fact that you can go cruising for sex and guys at clubs. And what type of music do you dance to at sweaty hot clubs? Why, techno beats obviously!

Of course, like all stereotypes, this is nothing more than a stereotype.

DominicX loves bubblegum pop… Hmmmm…...

I think it’s stereotyped as being for people with bad taste.

Oh wait, that’s not a stereotype, it’s true.

Never heard of it. Personally, I hate it.

when did that memo get passed around?

I’m with most of the other people here, I haven’t heard that before.

Ridiculous..Stop listening to heresay, it will spoil your mind.

One can argue Nickelback is for homosexuals.

I’ve heard it. Oh snap. But I don’t think it’s so much that it’s for homosexuals as much as it’s a stereotype that all homosexuals like dance/techno/electronic music, which is definitely based on truth. I’ve talked to plenty of homosexuals over the internet and they all love dance music. And so do I, though my dance music is even gayer. I guess it’s because gay people like to dance and it’s common for that type of music to be played in clubs and such. Nothing wrong with that. :P

“my dance music is even gayer”

lol

My whole library of ~10,000 is mostly dance, club and hip-hop/pop club mixes. :)

psssssss not gay

I think it is because of that movie Revenge of the Nerds when they had the competition and the gay nerd dudes played some serious retro-techno.

@DominicX Oh you gay person you. Wait.. I know you love Aqua. How about Rihanna? Lady GaGa? Kylie Minogue? Daft Punk? I’m guessing you definitely love The Vengaboys dontya?

But does anyone nowadays listen to Disco? That’s dance music too! And it is so not gay

@Saturated_Brain

Aqua, Toy Box, Smile.dk, Jenny Rom, Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Vengaboys, Alice Deejay, Eyeopener, Real McCoy, etc. all the good ones who have dance-like music.

Techno music is for homosexuals?

WTF. Someone’s been watching the movie “Bruno” too much.
ugh, actually just saw that movie tonight. I want those 87 min of my life back!

Music taste is not indicative of sexual preference of gender. I have no idea where you got that idea, but it’s not true.

Daft Punk ftw

Duh, it’s cause of Queer as Folk. Who could forget Brian Kinney et. al. shaking it to techno remixes of all your favorites? (One of my personal faves is the remix of Harder Better Faster Stronger. Pete Heller totally had it covered, way before Kanye.)

@Saturated_Brain Disco is the shizznet. Check out Arthur Russell sometime.

Everytime that I hear Nickelback on the radio, it makes me throw up in my mouth a little.

Wow i didnt know the 10,000 plus people at that electronic/trance music festival i went to last week were all gay….... though i suppose that does explain all the gay pride flags i saw :P

@jmah just a little?

@uberbatman a good mouthful. Each and everytime.

@jmah yeaaaa something about their music makes me want to just shove pointy objects deep into my skull via the ear canal :P

@uberbatman Yup, I know. And, seeing Chad Kroeger, shirtless, makes my eyes bleed!

Its actually pretty simple.

Lots of electronic music comes from Europe.
ALL Europeans are homosexual.
Therefore, ALL electronic enthusiasts are homosexual.

I’ve been to sensation white (Germany’s premier techno-trance festival),Samothraki Dance festival and Goa trance festival quite a few times. Based on all the male-female fornication I saw going on there, I can hardly say the men were gay.

I’m fiercely heterosexual and i absolutely love psychedelic trance music. Its not the same as “techno”. The baselines are harder, the riffs are edgier and the melodies are wilder. Psy-trance tracks are anywhere between 140–200 beats per minute whereas techno tends to be 100–130 bpm.

Still, I don’t know if u can call mainstream electronic stuff like Tiesto,Arman Van Buren, Paul Van Dyke, Paul Okenfold(mainstream trance) “gay” as such because I personally know lots of straight men and women who listen to them. I’d say its trans-gender (meaning it transcends gender) if anything, since it has a fairly all encompassing fan base.

But psy-trance… thats definitely not gay. Its a genre that evolved from acid house and has transformed into something completely marvelous. Before every set, I go to the DJ and ask him “hey, how high are you gonna take me this time?” :D.

Tbh, if anything, i think EMO-CORE is gay, or atleast way gayer than techno.

@sohamthe2nd shpongle ftw :)

I think you’re looking at this from a very straight perspective (no offense) but like if you were gay why would like electronic music? because it’s modern as fuck. that’s why. no other music has been more ground breaking than electronic music. it’s only been around for like 40 years really…but so has the gay liberation.

also, techno was created by some detroit youths in the early 80’s…they were listening to italo an electronic form of disco that sprung up in europe…which in turn came from disco which is basically the birth of dance music as we know it…which started in the ghettos of new york. new york is one of the largest cities in the world and definately a gay mecca. electronic dance music never fails in keeping the party going and gays loves to party and the fact that other electronic music styles like rap and hip hop have been like rock very, um, straight oriented…electronic dance music isn’t straight-oriented it’s people oriented (just like sohamthe2nd said)