Mistaken for Gay - TV Trop

Contents:

• MISTAKEN FOR GAY
• RELATED MA / GAYPANIC
• HISTORY MA / GAYPANIC
• BANNG THE USE OF GAY AND TRANS PANIC DEFENS
• GAYNGST-INDUCED SUICI

MISTAKEN FOR GAY

Played For Lghs: The villa who happens to be gay s at the hero a ltle too much jt to annoy him, bee he's a massive Troll and the hero is a Heteronormative Csar who reacts wh disgt each your arse as you return to Depraved. Wanted starts wh one of the: a character who we are rmed is the world's bt assass is givg a pletely explible monologue to a pair of male prostut explag, at length, that jt bee he is about to have sex wh them don't mean he's gay, far om , 's jt that he has sex wh soooooooo many women every day and every night all the time bangg hot bab nonstop that he lik to ocsnally bang dus jt to remd himself of how much he lik the ladi. Played wh Wh Pearl and Ruby Glowg: Rudi actually is straight, but is asslted by Heteronormative Csars for beg a ballero and th supposedly a "sissy", after which he velops a pulsn to have sex wh as many girls as possible to make clear to himself and others that he's not gay so no one will asslt him aga.

In Plan B, Pablo, spe havg a very homoerotic iendship wh Bno and tellg at least one of his iends that he once slept wh another man, sists to Bno that he's never kissed or had a thg wh another man or even thought about dog . Both men actually are straight, and had been dreamg of rng wh their wiv — but they are also early-middle-aged men the 1980s, so experience a moment of gay panic which ends wh the two puffg their chts up and begng to discs football ep manly-man voic.

Through the urse of the Star Wars sequel trilogy, a subset of fans creasgly shipped Fn and Poe as a gay uple spe of Fn havg a different female love tert each of the first two films ( the first film he's cshg on Rey, and the send he and Rose are all but explicly put together). This trope is played wh by a character self, not the creators of the show, an episo of Glee, where gay character Kurt, after g out of the closet, cis to act like a stereotypil straight guy, wearg flannel shirts and attemptg to speak wh a ep voice, even makg out wh a girl, an attempt to f better and believg would make his father love him more.

RELATED MA / GAYPANIC

In seri five one of the members of Rudy Too's support group is a man who sisted so much on statg he wasn't gay that the storm gave him a very ironic power: every time he said he wasn't gay, he voluntarily teleports to the neart closet.

The song "No Homo", which a bunch of male iends get together and do creasgly homoerotic thgs (up to and cludg both havg gay sex and actually g out of the closet), all unr the jtifitn "no homo", which means they were jt kiddg. Gee Wagner openly adms to gettg the ia for the gimmick om a guy who acted really gay but was nstantly flanked by femal and while Gee did whout that particular b, several of his succsors such as "Exotic" Adrian Street, Goldt and Ri Constanto at least brought one woman, Miss Lda, Marlena or Luna Vachon, Miss Jackie who they'd get up close wh between their harassment of men.

After the raft of jok about the homoerotic "macho man" overton of the first game, the send repeatedly refers to Dom's Wife and hts at a romance between Marc and Anya that never serv any purpose beyond re-enforcg his heterosexualy. Even his Extra Punctuatn verage of Dragon Age II, where he talks about how he pursued a homosexual romance wh a male character and did a ltle roleplay on , to show how roleplay vio gam shouldn't reflect on what kd of person you are real life... In Game Gmps, at the end of their Nja Breadman episo Egoraptor explas how when he was younger (as an ironic jab agast bulli accg him and his iends of beg gay) he and his iends formed The D-Club which nsisted mostly of jt showg each other their penis and gog "Yep, still not gay.

HISTORY MA / GAYPANIC

In Harry Plkett's review of Star Trek (2009), he has an entire segment about how the producers felt a need to give every sgle character a "se of the not-gays" — that is to say, nearly every major male character has a scene where they mentn a girliend, a wife, an ex-wife, or a nonspecific tert women.

Stoklasa brought back for a retrospective review of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, potg out that the "historil bab" don't seem to have any real purpose the narrative (their romance is really unrveloped and the two of them have no discernible personaly) asi om showg that Bill and Ted aren't gay. Renega Cut's "Queer Theory '80s and '90s Actn Movi" vio observ that this was very mon 1980-90s actn movi like Commando and Predator: male characters would get scen where they eher acted homophobilly or showed tert women that served no purpose other than to assure straight male viewers that the men were fely not gay spe havg extremely close iendships wh other men.

Pasila: Rno Repomi is terviewed for televisn, but sce someone mentned the possibily that they might suggt that he's gay, he spends most of the terviews proclaimg he's not, until the only way to get out of the suatn wh honour is to adm that he is, even though 's not even te. The trop n volve negative attus towards or stereotyp about lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex, asexual, and/or genr non-nformg people, and they n the gamut om relatively mor limatns (on clothg choic, mannerisms, jobs or reers and the like) to hostily and vlence. She's a Man Japan: This is not always homophobic motivatn, but a large proportn of exampl volve changg a character's genr or cis/trans stat orr to avoid provokg Moral Guardians by havg non-cis characters and/or non-straight romantic relatnships.

BANNG THE USE OF GAY AND TRANS PANIC DEFENS

Psycho Lbian: Plays on the purported lk between homosexualy and sany, flavoured wh the sexist implitn of "hysteria", as well as implyg that if they're willg to do somethg as bad as lbian sex, there's nothg they won't do. Flamg Devil: A triple-servg of the lack of humany of Disunt Lbians pl the riture nature of Camp Gay pl the stereotyp associatg male femy wh evil and male femy wh homosexualy (th leadg to associatg homosexualy wh evil as well).

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). 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').

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!

GAYNGST-INDUCED SUICI

" 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. 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.