When straight males who are very good friends say vaguely
homosexual things to each other, not to express physical attraction or any romantic love towards each other, but as a means by which to show a simple
appreciation in an ironic fashion.
Oddly enough, it is seen as “gayer” for a
straight male to be forward about unironic non-sexual love for their friends than it is to say something disingenuously homosexual to get the same point across without actually saying it.
Friend 1: “It’s really
fuckin hot in here.”
Friend 2: “Well, don’t take your shirt off, it’ll just get hotter.”
Friend 1: “Oh, you on that homiesexual type beat.”
Friends 1 & 2: *laughter*
Both friends know the comment is not genuine, but they
appreciate it for what it is, which is deeply ironic and has a lot of variability. It’s not actually gay nor is it meant to be taken that way. It’s a genuine unrelated
appreciation wrapped in disingenuous joke comment.