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MISTAKEN FOR GAY

The Mistaken for Gay trope as ed popular culture. A edy plot le which a character wrongly believ another character to be gay, eher bee … * tv tropes mistaken for gay *

However, the characters don't need to retaliate or tell those who have mistaken them that they aren't gay as such characters n easily disprove the mistak through other means such as a revelatn of a straight relatnship. Due to the mon belief that All Men Are Perverts and A Man Is Always Eager, any male character who isn't shown to jump at the chance to have sex wh a woman will be mistaken for gay (if not actually gay) by the dience and possibly by the other characters as well (pecially male characters). In Kick-Ass, this happens to Dave Lizewski after he gets beaten up twice while tryg to be a real-life superhero, wh the kids at school assumg he's a gay prostute who keeps gettg beaten up by his clients.

First, random street toughs assume he and his iend and servant Wong are a gay uple, then Night Nurse seems to assume that Wong llg Stephen 'master' is sexual nature (allud to by her remark about his beg unable to pass ment on 'other people's fetish'). Michael Straczynski's Spir-Man n, when Aunt May disvers the tth about her nephew's super-hero inty she adms that for the longt time due to his sometim odd behavr and natural sensivy she thought he was gay. Subverted Young Avengers: Billy's tryg to tell his parents he's a superhero but ends up g out to them a totally different way - except that he really is gay and his parents thk his boyiend is the perfect son--law.

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The plot of Three to Tango is that Chigo archect Osr Novak is mistaken for gay and has to keep up the chara bee he was hired for the ntract of his life on the assumptn he was gay so he uld act as a safe pann for his new boss's mistrs Amy. Amerin Bety: The paranoid ex-Mare neighbor wrongly spects his son and the protagonist (played by Kev Spacey) of havg a homosexual affair after he tch the two together and thks his son's givg the protagonist a blow job (he was actually jt rollg a blunt). This didn't seem to affect them Brgg Up Baby, when Grant go to the door Katie Hepburn's drsg gown bee there's nothg else to wear, the dignified lady ller wants to know what he's dog that getup; Grant jumps up the air, wavg his arms, and yells "Bee I jt went GAY all of a sudn!

" While film studs at this time ually got away wh havg flamg gay characters by ntextualizg them as "mistaken for gay" or Frasier-like refed but straight mal, this se and a few others MGM got away wh Exactly What It Says on the T. The French movie The Closet subverts this; when a photoshopped picture of the ma character at a very gay bar a very gay outf shows up at his office, he is seen as gay by everyone spe no outward mannerism chang.

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In Horrible Boss 2, when Nick, Dale, and Kurt break to the office of Dale's old boss Julia, Nick gets dragged to what he thks is an AA meetg takg place there; however, 's actually a sex addictn meetg, and Nick's improvised scriptn of his "problem" unrstandably leads everyone else prent to thk he's gay. However, Nick (the only one of the ma tr who don't get laid regularly) is happy to go along wh when he fds out that Julia regularly tri to sce gay men who e to the meetgs wh the hop of "-gay-g" them, and he do ed manage to get laid wh her.

Casa Nova Kayfabe: A Fake Real Movie About A Fake Real Sport is spected of beg gay by several of the wrtlers as a rult of his obssn wh his oiled physique, his refal to wear pants the locker room, and his tenncy to refe to let go of certa holds the rg bee "'s hot".

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Sce the movie was ma 1940, they had to do the whole mistaken for gay subplot whout ever sayg the word "gay" or "homosexual" ( fact, they had to make do whout any direct reference to sex of any kd).

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