Le # Ma/ManlyGay - TV Trop

Contents:

• INTERVENTN REQUTED: MANLY GAY
• HISTORY MA / MANLYGAY
• CONTEXT MA / MANLYGAY

INTERVENTN REQUTED: MANLY GAY

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

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. 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.

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. Tom of Fland (real name Too Val Laaksonen, 8 May 1920 – 7 November 1991) is one of the most famo artists of gay men history, and the morn Trope Codifier of the Manly Gay trope.

HISTORY MA / MANLYGAY

Sce homosexualy was stigmatized (and even illegal) until the 1960s, gay sailors knew they had to be discreet when talkg about gay lovers. The ma problem that Jack has wh gays mand posns is not so much their sexualy as that the favorism they show their partners has a very bad effect on their ships' orr and disciple. Monty Python's Flyg Circ has s own parody on the subject, exchangg "homosexualy" for "nnibalism", and makg untls of jok of navy men sually eatg one another, or discsg nonchalantly of who should get eaten.

While the Navy yield, they took umbrage to the implitn there was anythg at all gay about the Village People or the song "In The Navy" any way promoted homosexualy. "Capta Jack and the Mermaid (the real tail)" is a Filk Song parody of Meg Davis' folk song "Capta Jack and the Mermaid", by Bob Kanefsky (who is openly gay himself and often referenc LGBT issu), about the real reason why Jack asked his crew to tell his arranged fiancée that he'd gone off wh a mermaid. In the vio game Trawds: Legends, the burly Berber swordsman Hasan Tazere is a Straight Gay wh ocsnal Camp Gay ("Do this tattoo plement my ey?

An issue about gays the ary has four optns: Ban gays om servg at all (suggted by an army chapla), allow gays to serve openly (suggted by an air force pilot), allow gays to serve, but not openly (suggted by a mare your personal bodyguard), and allow only gays to serve (suggted by the pta of a stroyer). Dpe the numero Shallow Parodi assumg otherwise, the accintally homoerotic implitns of Ryo's search for sailors early the origal Shenmue do, fact, get poted out by some of the NPCs you n ask about :.

CONTEXT MA / MANLYGAY

"Homer's Phobia" has Homer reference this trope while on a homophobic rant, mentg how gay men "turned the Navy to a floatg joke" among other thgs.

After beg told that women like a guy who's "In Touch wh His Feme Si", the not-very-bright Johnny ends drsg drag to imprs a girl and gets h on by a uple of Ambiguoly Gay sailors who tell him suggtively that they're "on shore leave. Also, if a new enlistee onboard and exhibs homophobic behavr, many crews have have been known to have the entire crew troll the newer wh Gay Bravado until they eher get over the homophobia or break unr the stra of beg tormented by the entire crew actg as mp as possible. Of urse, the crew may fall afoul of the law over such practic, pecially untri which have explic prohibns on homosexual acts unr any circumstanc the ary.