Interventn requted: Manly Gay - TV Trop Fom

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.

HISTORY MA / MANLYGAY

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.

CONTEXT 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.