Gay chi­cken is a new, homo­pho­bic game among young, urban, and alledgedly „strai­ght“ males in the U.S., wan­ting to show off their embar­rass­ment or dis­gust with same-sex inti­macy — usually in front of a crowd of hys­te­ri­cally laug­hing boys or loud screa­ming girls, the lat­ter of whom will never join in this game, because for some rea­son it can on no account be played by women!

About one or two years ago, the series „Scrubs“ made the pres­um­a­bly first refe­rence to this game’s exis­tence on public TV:

Guyz, you really suck! Get see a doc­tor.
– And this is how it’s played in Japan … <3