{"id":43797,"date":"2016-09-04T12:25:50","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T16:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/never-dated-a-deaf-guy-man-youre-missing-out\/"},"modified":"2016-09-04T12:25:50","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T16:25:50","slug":"never-dated-a-deaf-guy-man-youre-missing-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/never-dated-a-deaf-guy-man-youre-missing-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Dated A Deaf Guy? Man, You\u2019re Missing Out!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Never Dated A Deaf Guy? Man, You\u2019re Missing Out!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/2016\/08\/25150134\/dickie-hearts-1-670x475.jpg\" alt=\"dickie-hearts-1\" width=\"650\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/2016\/08\/25150134\/dickie-hearts-1-670x475.jpg 670w, https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/2016\/08\/25150134\/dickie-hearts-1-360x255.jpg 360w, https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/2016\/08\/25150134\/dickie-hearts-1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\"><\/p>\n<p>Meet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dickiehearts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dickie Hearts<\/a>. He&rsquo;s a Los Angeles-based filmmaker, an avid hiker, biker and weight-lifter, and a total comic book\/super hero geek. Oh, and he&rsquo;s also deaf.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I face a lot of interesting challenges,&rdquo;&nbsp;he&nbsp;tells&nbsp;<em>Queerty<\/em> in an exclusive interview. &ldquo;At times, I do feel invisible, which can be frustrating. At the same time, it drives me more and gives me a stronger voice (or hands) as an actor-filmmaker.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.queerty.com\/every-wednesday-can-learn-asl-shirtless-nyle-dimarco-20160810\" target=\"_blank\">Every Other Wednesday, You Can Learn ASL With A Shirtless Nyle DiMarco<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hearts is a busy <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">guy<\/a>. He just finished shooting a&nbsp;guest spot on a&nbsp;show. He&rsquo;s also&nbsp;hard at work&nbsp;on a pitch for a&nbsp;new web series. All that is in addition to regularly going on auditions, taking acting classes, and working on short film projects.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, he had a few minutes to <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">chat<\/a> with us about his experiences as a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> deaf <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">man<\/a> of color, the L.A. dating scene, and whether he prefers Grindr or Scruff.&nbsp;Check out what he had to say&hellip;<\/p>\n<div title=\"Page 2\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>QUEERTY: You&rsquo;re&nbsp;basically a triple minority. G<strong>ay, deaf, and a person of color.&nbsp;<\/strong>What&rsquo;s that like?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div title=\"Page 1\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>HEARTS: I face a lot of interesting challenges. The biggest would be access to opportunities&ndash;an audition for a leading role,&nbsp;a job interview, things like that. I&rsquo;m not fully considered just because of my deafness. It&rsquo;s funny because I look &ldquo;normal&rdquo; and my deafness isn&rsquo;t visible until I start gesturing with my hands. Then people are&nbsp;like, &ldquo;Ohhhh, you&rsquo;re deaf.&rdquo; I also know I miss out on&nbsp;opportunities just because I&rsquo;m a person of color, or because I&rsquo;m openly <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a>, or both. It&rsquo;s very real and, at times,&nbsp;I do feel invisible, which can be frustrating.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yet despite all that, you&rsquo;ve still found a way to do&nbsp;what you love, which is filmmaking. In fact, your short film &ldquo;Passengers&rdquo; earned you the Best Filmmaker title at the Disability Film Challenge last year. Where did you get the idea for the project?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div title=\"Page 2\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>I actually used to drive for Lyft for extra money and I somehow came across the 48-Hour Film Challenge, where, like it says,&nbsp;you have 48 hours to complete a short film. So, I decided, why not borrow from my own experiences? I also knew that I wanted to see my own kind of love story, which, of course, involves a deaf queer person as the hero.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div title=\"Page 2\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>The beginning of the film pokes fun at some of the more absurd things people have said to you about your disability. What&rsquo;s the most ridiculous thing&nbsp;someone has ever&nbsp;said, and how did you respond?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div title=\"Page 2\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>&ldquo;You&rsquo;re deaf? &hellip;But how can you drive?&rdquo; (While I was actually driving them home!) &ldquo;How do you have <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">sex<\/a>?&rdquo; &ldquo;Are deaf people quiet during <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">sex<\/a>?&rdquo; Those are some of the dumbest questions I&rsquo;ve been asked. Sometimes, I&rsquo;d give them a &ldquo;You&rsquo;re kidding, right?&rdquo; look. Usually I&rsquo;d just smile and shrug it off. And, no, we are <em>not<\/em> quiet during <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">sex<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>On that note: Grindr or Scruff?<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<div title=\"Page 3\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>I&rsquo;m more of a Scruff <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">guy<\/a> myself. (Sorry, Grindr!)&nbsp;I use it&nbsp;to, <em>ahem<\/em>, satisfy my needs and sometimes I actually use it as a way to get coffee or a drink with <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">guys<\/a>. While it&rsquo;s a hookup app, it can be used to find potential suitors. This is where my&nbsp;person of color&nbsp;identity comes in first rather than my deafness. For hooking up, once we get past the obligatory &ldquo;into?&rdquo; talk and and we&rsquo;re going to meet up, I let them know right there and then that I&rsquo;m deaf. Most of the time they don&rsquo;t care. They just wanna do it since <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">sex<\/a> doesn&rsquo;t really involve talking anyway.<\/p>\n<div title=\"Page 4\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>I&rsquo;ve spoken with a few different disabled <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">guys<\/a> who have all said they deal with <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> fetishizing their disabilities. Have you ever experienced that?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah. Oh yeaaaaaah. It&rsquo;s very common. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m deaf. That cool?&rdquo; &ldquo;Dude, that&rsquo;s so hot. F*** yes!&rdquo; I&rsquo;m just like, hey, whatever floats your boat, and if it tips it to my advantage, sure. For me, it&rsquo;s more of how extreme the level of fetishizing the disability gets. So far, I haven&rsquo;t felt the need to go &ldquo;Dude, really? C&rsquo;mon.&rdquo; You have to understand, I&rsquo;m a filmmaker, so I am always observing things like this.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/2016\/08\/25150324\/dickie-hearts-2-360x540.jpg\" alt=\"dickie-hearts-2\" width=\"360\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/2016\/08\/25150324\/dickie-hearts-2-360x540.jpg 360w, https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/2016\/08\/25150324\/dickie-hearts-2.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\">OK, and what about dating?&nbsp;Do <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">guys<\/a>&nbsp;treat you differently because of your disability?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What&rsquo;s dating? Just kidding.&nbsp;I&rsquo;ve gone on dates here and there, but it would never lead to anything past the first or second date.&nbsp;Dating is a whole &lsquo;nother ball game, actually. I&rsquo;m based in L.A. and Los Angeles is so different&nbsp;in those regards.&nbsp;First, you have the L.A. culture. Then you have the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> culture. And, to top it all off, the Hollywood culture.&nbsp;To have all of those three overlapping each other&nbsp;can&nbsp;make dating quite near impossible. Especially if you&rsquo;re deaf and a person of color. Anything that differentiates from&nbsp;the &ldquo;norm&rdquo; (beautiful, able-bodied, hearing, and white) immediately makes you look undesirable or less than &ldquo;perfect.&rdquo; This is not to sound bitter or angry. This is just my observation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I&rsquo;d imagine&nbsp;simply&nbsp;communicating on dates would also pose a challenge.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s the next biggest issue in dating. I&rsquo;m an ASL (American Sign Language) user. Honestly, I could write a book about this. Or rather a movie. Rom-com, right? Either way, it involves the non-signing person to learn sign language because how will we communicate if not that? Eternally typing back and forth on our iPhones? Nah. Also, the non-signing person would not just have to learn, but would also have to remain committed to a whole new language, one that&rsquo;s visual and not spoken.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Have you ever dated another deaf <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">guy<\/a>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&nbsp;absolutely would. I just haven&rsquo;t found the right one. For me, it doesn&rsquo;t matter whether you&rsquo;re deaf or hearing, as long as you can sign. Seriously, though, it can be a beautiful and more intimate journey for both the signing and non-signing dates. I&rsquo;ve seen deaf\/ hearing queer <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">couples<\/a> that started out like that. It gives my friends and I some hope!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div title=\"Page 4\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>What&rsquo;s something you would like to tell others&nbsp;about <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">guys<\/a> with disabilities?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Don&rsquo;t look past us. Get to know us. We&rsquo;re just like everyone else, amazingly human and just another beautiful color in the big, great rainbow flag.<\/p>\n<p>Also, a dating tip: When a deaf person tells you they&rsquo;re deaf, don&rsquo;t quickly state that you don&rsquo;t know sign language or apologize for not knowing. Chances are they already know that you don&rsquo;t know and there is no need to apologize. Rather, just say something like &ldquo;cool&rdquo; or &ldquo;that&rsquo;s awesome&rdquo; or &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve always wanted to learn sign language.&rdquo; Turn an &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know&rdquo; into an &ldquo;I&rsquo;d love to learn.&rdquo; And if you do know sign language, then great! Happy dating!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.queerty.com\/nyle-dimarco-single-wants-lover-three-qualities-20160602\" target=\"_blank\">Nyle DiMarco Is &lsquo;Very Single&rsquo;; Wants A Lover With These Three Qualities<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?a=eQMII2v2ibY:gsIBUjzFRM4:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?a=eQMII2v2ibY:gsIBUjzFRM4:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/queerty2\/~3\/eQMII2v2ibY\/never-dated-deaf-guy-man-youre-missing-20160904\" class=\"autohyperlink\">feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/queerty2\/~3\/eQMII2v2ibY\/never-dated-deaf-guy-man-youre-missing-20160904<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never Dated A Deaf Guy? 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