Think you’ve got good gaydar? Being able to tell if that cute guy is gay or straight has to do with whether you’re on your period.

But it only goes for working out whether a man is gay or not – a woman’s menstrual cycle doesn’t affect her ability to tell if another woman is a lesbian, a recent Canadian study found.

Q: If a gay person decides to make a strong move to become straight, can he be successful?

A gay person has never tried the opposite sex, so he doesn’t know the pleasure of it. I believe that after trying various sex acts with different females, he could first become bisexual then slowly turn heterosexual. I’m sure at least some if not all gays would be cured. This would a great gift to society. Sumit, Gurgaon

“All homophobes are closeted homosexuals,” wrote Love Matters’ resident guy next door Kuber Sharma in his recent blog.

Is there any science on his side? Do guys who hate gays actually fancy men themselves? A US study set out to investigate. It turns out that Kuber is exaggerating. Not all homophobes are turned on by men – only 80 percent of them.

Ever wondered why most Indian men are so scared of being labelled gay?

Are they afraid of being hit on by actual homosexual men or worried that they'll never get laid? Yes, increasingly this blog has become a collection of things that scare men. But the gay label is something that sends shivers down the spine of every straight man I know.

The secret to ‘gaydar’ might be the ability to spot how symmetrical a person’s face is, say two US researchers.

People who claim they’ve got ‘gaydar’ say they can instinctively tell if a person’s gay or straight. But not all gay men act feminine and not all lesbians look butch, despite all the myths and clichés. So just how does gaydar work?

Mumbai's fifth gay pride march, the Queer Azadi (freedom) March, took place on Saturday.

Over 500 people gathered on the streets to demand equal rights for lesbians, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Sushil Mhatre told Love Matters how he fought his fears to take part for the first time, despite being “mid-way” out of the closet: “It was amazing to be part of this community feeling proud.”

Dutch state medical insurance has been paying for therapy to ‘cure’ gays – the revelation recently shocked many people in the Netherlands.

The Netherlands is known as one of the most liberal countries in the world when it comes to the accepting gays. But here too there are people who believe that therapy can make homosexual people straight.

A few friends I’ve known to be heterosexual have told me recently about their homosexual encounters.

That makes them bisexual, I guess. I wasn’t surprised – just intrigued to find out what’s making them swing both ways after all these years. “Everybody has a bisexual bone in them,” a friend of mine said. “Some of us explore it, some of us don’t.”

I don’t know if I’m gay or straight or bisexual.

The question has been haunting me for a while now. I’ve ended up hating the very thought of sex, so much that I now practice abstinence. I’ve been with both men and women. I do enjoy sex with both, but I think I prefer having sex with men – I’m not sure.
 

Some Sundays ago I was brunching with a few Bombay mates when lesbian porn featured in our conversation, and stayed put for a while. Blame it on the early noon drinks, I say.

While the ladies were curious to know what makes lesbian porn so appealing to men, the guys just couldn’t fathom our lack of understanding.