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Contents:

• INTERVENTN REQUTED: MANLY GAY
• MANLY GAY
• BADASS GAY
• GAY COWBOY
• GAYNGSTER

INTERVENTN REQUTED: MANLY GAY

Compare wh Noble Male, Roguish Male, where the Noble Male is still nsired to be "manly" a chivalro fashn, and Mascule–Feme Gay Couple for explicly romantic duos.

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. Flyg Unr the Gaydar: When a gay (or bisexual) character, who is normally very flamboyant, acts a far ls stereotypil manner to avoid spicn.

MANLY GAY

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 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.

BADASS GAY

GLAAD revealed at a panel Augt that 62 gay and bisexual televisn characters were killed off on televisn the past two years, cludg on Orange Is the New Black, Hoe of Cards, Pretty Ltle Liars, The Walkg Dead, and Empire.

From Aled Hchck's oedipal Bno Strangers on a Tra to his Leopold and Loeb stand-s Rope to the serial killer offg gay men the servedly much-maligned Cisg to the recent French film Stranger by the Lake, the praved homosexual has been a mastay of the big screen. Exampl of the evil and nnivg, while not necsarily murro, gay n be found Downton Abbey's footman Thomas, Orange Is the New Black's Pistella, Sndal's Cys, and Bat Motel's eratn of Norman.

Atralia's Wentworth rape to terrifyg effect while this season's Orange Is the New Black even clud a flashback sequence of gay male guard Pistella's rcerated love tert beg gang-raped. The Unsettg Genr Reveal is a trope employed by Hollywood, ually for edic or shockg effect, which may have tragic unrton of homophobia and transphobia. Films gog back as far as the '80s Brish perd piece Another Country have featured gay male characters who e sex to ver for their abily to feel te timacy wh another human beg.

GAY COWBOY

Queer people serve more than the mockery of trans/nonbary people seen the Zoolanr 2 character of All, portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch, or the butt-of-gay-jok character Bradley Dirty Grandpa. The gay liberatn had barely been the 1970s, and really took until the 1990s for the olr generatn to start takg gay people more serly.

There are trop like Motache Of Failed Heterosexualy that I thk would not exist at all if not for creased cultural awarens of Manly Gay stereotype. That evolved om a time when people prumed Nobody Is Gay, om a time before the Ksey Reports and before morn psychology and public school gay-straight allianc, and pecially morn acceptance of the thgs.

GAYNGSTER

In another culture those very same kds of men may not have felt so much cultural prsure, and may have e out as gay, and celebrated their ep masculy wh gay pri.