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Very true Rune, as borne out by this study where people were able to
detect homosexuality in men based on very small portions of their
face:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=something-queer-about-that-face

&quot;.....Furthermore, in an even more rigorously controlled series of
experiments published in the Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, Rule and his colleagues replicated their discovery that
people are able to accurately guess male sexual orientation. This
time, the researchers demonstrated that perceivers were able to do
this even when they were shown only individual features of the
target's face. For example, when shown only the eye region (&quot;without
brows and cropped to the outer canthi so that not even &quot;crow's-feet&quot;
were visible&quot;), perceivers were amazingly still able to accurately
identify a man as being gay. The same happened when shown the mouth
region alone. Curiously, most of the participants underestimated their
ability to identify gay faces from these features alone. That is to
say, people seem to have honed and calibrated their gaydar without
knowing they've done so......&quot;
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