Gay Optn - TV Trop

Contents:

• ALL GAYS LOVE THEATER
• GAY OPTN
• BADASS GAY
• WORD OF GAY

ALL GAYS LOVE THEATER

While the real world, LGBTQ+ persons are jt as varied personaly and tras as straight/cisgenr on, has sued televisn wrers to e mon stereotyp for their gay characters li of actually makg them "real people". Even some LGBTQ+ people perpetuate the stereotyp by cricizg those who fall outsi of them as "not really gay" or words to that effect. Gay Bravado: Characters makg homoerotic ments and suggtns to one another is Played for Lghs, bee of urse they're too macho to really be gay.

Gay Optn: When a player character a vio game n pursue romantic relatns wh a member of the same sex, if the player is so cled.

GAY OPTN

Gay Romantic Phase: The ia that gayns is a phase that one go through before growg up and gettg to a heterosexual relatnship.

If It's You, It's Okay: When a gay or straight character mak a sgle exceptn for sex or romance wh someone outsi their normal genr preference.

Last Het Romance: The heterosexual partner/relatnship that rults a gay or lbian character realizg they're queer and g out. Lover and Beloved: A (sometim ambiguoly) gay uple which one partner is much olr than and acts as a mentor to the other. Most heterosexual stage actors and fans are secure enough that this sort of thg don't bother them (unls they're teenagers), but gay men who don't enjoy theater tend to chafe at beg grouped wh screamg queens who argue over whether Jennifer Holliday or Jennifer Hudson played a better Effie Dreamgirls.

BADASS GAY

There is some element of Tth Televisn, as a good portn of stage actors and fans are ed gay; however, this only really means that men who enjoy theater are more likely to be gay pared to other media, not so much that every gay person enjoys theater or that every person who enjoys theater is gay. Intertgly enough, this trope is pletely averted when to most big name male movie stars, as the moment one be famo there is not an tomatic assumptn of homosexualy, even though a good portn of movie stars enjoy theater.

That is, unls a male movie star still performs mil theater between film projects or even exprs a preference for Broadway over Hollywood, which se the gay mors fly. Frankie Boyle matas that the real reason for the existence of mil theatre is to provi gaful employment for the majory of Brish homosexuals, who would otherwise be jobls. Referenced an issue of Green Lantern, when Kyle assum his agent is gay, the man fir back wh a list of gay stereotyp that don't apply to him, and this is one of them.

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WORD OF GAY

Portra of Jason is an experimental documentary terview film that is nothg more than a sgle s-down terview wh s subject, the Camp Gay htler Jason Holliday. Ryan Evans om High School Mil is queerd the movi and nfirmed to be gay by the diector, and is very to sgg, dancg, and mil theatre. ", Melv says that certa groups, like people the theatre, have a higher percent of gay people bee they're naturally artistic.

Though he pots out that the stereotype about all people theatre beg gay is false, as most of them are actually straight (two thirds, at the theatre Vcent and Melv vis) and only some of the gay characters are to theatre.

The theater stereotype was parodied by Neil Patrick Harris the openg number of the 2011 Tony Awards: "It's Not Jt for Gays Anymore! On Barney Miller Inspector Luger once op that everyone who is now or ever has been a Hollywood actor is gay - "except the De of urse.