You’ve heard it before. “I love you, man. No homo.”Or, “I just bought my Bros ticket. No homo.”Or, “Dude, your glutes are massive.
No homo.”Yes, straight men—especially those insecure in their sexuality—tend to use “no homo” as punctuation, as one Urban Dictionary definition points out: “A term used by many men after every sentence so everyone knows they’re straight”Other tongue-in-cheek Urban Dictionary definitions suggest that men who utter “no homo” tend to do some pretty homo things. “‘No homo’ is the magic phrase men utter when undertaking task[s] that are gay, so that they may ward it off,” one reads.