Hence, a common refrain from a certain faction of straight people is that gay men and queer people “shove it down our throats,” with “it” being a euphemism for sexuality. Alts, for some, represent freedom from that response and maybe even certain norms within gay male culture. One man I spoke to explained that nudes are already swapped on Grindr chats and that his alt is nothing you couldn’t find there. “There’s still moments where I think maybe gay men are not always 100 percent with our peers on all the stuff that we’re into,” a man I interviewed said.
