are speedos just for gays ( Or do threy want them to be)

[Byron]

We seem to have been down this road many times. Who would have thought that the little garment we would put on as kids without complications, for the practical purpose of taking our bodies into water for exercise, would one day become the subject of so much social angst about how appropriate it is to wear in certain surroundings and how it might have beeen commandeered to represent a badge of honor and/or protest by a minority group in parades to celebrate a particular sexual orientation.

I was surprised to see the degree of agreement here about gay pride parades and will add my view that on the whole they have done more harm than good in some of those "in your face" displays - no doubt to the cynical enjoyment of bigots who are given gratis a reinforcement of their prejudices.

To answer the question, yes - I think there are some gays who consider the speedo "uniform" to be reserved as appropriate for them only to wear.
There is something in the human psyche where there is a compulsion to declare one's origins in public, in much the same way that a veteran may wish to have his regimental badge sewn to the breast of his blazer (though the latter will do so for rather different reasons of course).