Vanity and gayness

Recently, I was introduced to this interesting Stateside "anthropological phenomena" called the "Guido". It all started with a viral email, which was followed up by URLs of several sites, including GuidoFistpump (which, to me, sounds like some gay porn site) and a definition of a Guido by a Cajun Boy in the City.
I guess it is similar to the Chav phenomenon over here, except that the chavs aren't (by definition) rich. Maybe the current Guido is the evolved version of an equivalent chav phenomenon. BTW, I personally don't think the wiki entry does justice to the chav, if that makes sense or if it is possible ever to justify a chav.

Anyway, after going through some websites, I started thinking. All this Guido-ness: the simple beat of the club music, the dancing, the vanity displayed, the bulging muscles, the hairstyle......if I saw one of them in England, I would think they were gay. Seriously. Because that is the gay sterotypes you see in, ur, gay clubs, over here.
Not the orangyness and the fake tan, mind you, that (according to sources) was more a mid-80's thing. Having said that, you do see orangyness over here too, but I don't really see a direct positive correlation of orangyness with chav-ness.

I guess the difference in perception arises from the fact that a Guido is a descendent of Italians (-American working class). The suave Italian male image doesn't translate at all to English /British culture. So while the current Guidos, despite their similarity with the chavs, are totally hetero (I assume), the equivalent... male example over here, might be stereotyped (at least by me) as being gay.

Interesting.
And yes, you can guess that I am running out of interesting topics to write about.