If you don't support gay marriage, the gay men will gladly marry your girliend stead of marryg each other
Contents:
- SETTLED FOR GAY
- 'COLLEGE HUMOR' GIV MEN A REASON TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
- PSA: GAY MEN WILL MARRY YOUR GIRLIENDS
- 'GO AHEAD, MARRY OUR GIRLIENDS': STRAIGHT MEN RPOND TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE SPOOF WARNG GAY MEN WOULD STEAL THEIR WOMEN
SETTLED FOR GAY
The Settled for Gay trope as ed popular culture. Are you a straight girl? Have you not had luck wh men of late? Remember your old gay pal Will that … * collegehumor gay marriage *
Remember your old gay pal Will that you're a Fag Hag for? This is often applied a settg where would be hard or impossible for the man qutn to live openly gay or for the woman to rema unmarried, so the marriage keeps him the closet and her a rpectable woman.
X Men Worst X Man Ever discs an Inversn/Genr Flip of this trope: as the straight, male protagonist laments his lack of luck wh girls, he quips that he should jt settle on gog to the prom wh his gay bt iend. The movie of A Streetr Named Dire impli very strongly that Blanche's former hband was a closeted homosexual. He don't want to tell his parents he's gay, and she wants to go to universy California to take advantage of a football scholarship, so he surpris her by lyg to their fai that they want to get engaged, on the ndn that before they get married Js should go to universy anywhere she wants.
'COLLEGE HUMOR' GIV MEN A REASON TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
Even though Amerin homosexuals are tax-payg cizens and should therefore have the rights of other tax-payg cizens, gay marriage is only legal ne stat, wh ne other stat permtg legal unns. The majory of stat have banned same-sex marriage and/or civil unns. But College Humor giv reason that the men those stat should be supportg gay marriage. * collegehumor gay marriage *
A rather strange example the now notor movie A Different Story, where a gay man and a lbian move together, fall love, have a kid, and no longer have any tert people of the same sex.
Begners: Turns out Oliver's mother knew that Hal was gay all along and actually proposed to him, thkg that she uld fix him.
PSA: GAY MEN WILL MARRY YOUR GIRLIENDS
CollegeHumor's latt origal vio, 'support' of gay marriage. * collegehumor gay marriage *
He pots out that if you were pregnant Oh the early seventi, marryg a gay guy was probably everyone's bt optn. Sure, livg on an alien pla and the datg picks are slim, but is really fair to tell a young, geo girl that she'll have to settle for her gay pal and bok the lol Casanova when she wants a shag? In Michael Chabon's novel The Amazg Adventur of Kavalier and Clay, After Joe Kavalier jos the Navy and is clared MIA, his fiancee Rosa Saks — who is pregnant wh his child — wds up marryg his bt iend/ Sam Clay, who had been datg a male rad actor but was trmatized to avoidg men after beg the subject of a anti-gay raid by the FBI which culmated him beg raped by several agents.
They're well aware that they'll be seeg other people, but the marriage is nvenient for both of them: he benefs om movg to a untry more acceptg of homosexualy, and she om a layer of rpectabily. An episo had Carrie thk about this optn wh her Pet Homosexual, but cid she didn't want to do . In a later season, a woman late forti/early fifti who is sort of iends wh the group gets married to a guy who all thought to be gay.
Gee and Benny later fd out he's gay and Carmen's g him as a ver (and he's g her as The Beard).
'GO AHEAD, MARRY OUR GIRLIENDS': STRAIGHT MEN RPOND TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE SPOOF WARNG GAY MEN WOULD STEAL THEIR WOMEN
Their meetg go well, she's pretty, and they enjoy each others pany, and then out that's she's a lbian that wants to e him as her beard (although a twist she thought he was gay as well and 'd be a mutual thg). Bob had been portrayed as an amb young executive who was somewhat popular wh the ladi and only later revealed to be gay.
The song "Gay Boyiend" by The Hazzards is the crystallized sence of this trope. Garfunkel and Oat also did a "Gay Boyiend" song - although, sce theirs is a more morn versn of the relatnship, 's wh an unrstandg that the boyiend will eventually e out and leave her, but that won't stop the girl om enjoyg him now. The CollegeHumor sketch Gay Men Will Marry Your Girliends has an assortment of gay men cheerily listg their advantag as hband material while explicly threateng to voke and explo this trope if the straight male viewg dience ref to support gay marriage.