> Is it not seen as societally acceptable in the States to wear colorful clothes as a male teenager/adolescent? Anecdote: I visited the US last year and happen

> Is it not seen as societally acceptable in the States to wear colorful clothes as a male teenager/adolescent? Anecdote: I visited the US last year and happened to be invited by a friend to a climbing gym in the bay area. Said friend wore a shirt that was pink/purple. I was there for two hours or so. In this time he got two comments about the color, jokingly painting a picture of him as being gay.