Mistaken for Gay - TV Trop

Contents:

• MISTAKEN FOR GAY
• MISTAKEN AS GAY
• "YOU EVER GET MISTAKEN FOR GAY?"
• PATRICK STEWART SAYS HE'S 'FLATTERED' AT BEG MISTAKEN FOR GAY

MISTAKEN FOR GAY

"A edy plot le which a character wrongly believ another character to be gay, eher bee of misrmatn received or bee of the supposedly gay character's own misterpreted words and actns. However, the characters don't need to retaliate or tell those who have mistaken them that they aren't gay as such characters n easily disprove the mistak through other means such as a revelatn of a straight relatnship.

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). Subverted a b featured John Mulaney's "New Town, " which Mulaney nfs that while he is a straight man, he probably shouldn't be, and unrstand assumptns that he's gay. In Kick-Ass, this happens to Dave Lizewski after he gets beaten up twice while tryg to be a real-life superhero, wh the kids at school assumg he's a gay prostute who keeps gettg beaten up by his clients.

MISTAKEN AS GAY

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'). In Rawhi Kid: The Sensatnal Seven, the openly gay Rawhi Kid figur his patrt the Two-Gun Kid for gay based on his stume — stuff like the kerchief, the mask, the prt on the vt. Michael Straczynski's Spir-Man n, when Aunt May disvers the tth about her nephew's super-hero inty she adms that for the longt time due to his sometim odd behavr and natural sensivy she thought he was gay.

Subverted Young Avengers: Billy's tryg to tell his parents he's a superhero but ends up g out to them a totally different way - except that he really is gay and his parents thk his boyiend is the perfect son--law. In Jtice League: The Flashpot Paradox, Barry Allen cis to tell his mother that he's The Flash, but gets embarrassed when she terpts and says she already knows he's gay and she's not ashamed.

In Superman Unbound, Steve Lombardi assum that Clark is gay (obliv to the fact that Clark and Lois are datg), mentg that he never seems terted women, and don't follow sports, but stays shape. 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).

"YOU EVER GET MISTAKEN FOR GAY?"

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!

" 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. The French movie The Closet subverts this; when a photoshopped picture of the ma character at a very gay bar a very gay outf shows up at his office, he is seen as gay by everyone spe no outward mannerism chang.

Bartleby immediately ni that they're gay, but technilly sce neher of them has a blogil genr he's not necsarily nyg anythg, or at least the Slash Fic wrers would like to thk so... 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.

PATRICK STEWART SAYS HE'S 'FLATTERED' AT BEG MISTAKEN FOR GAY

However, Nick (the only one of the ma tr who don't get laid regularly) is happy to go along wh when he fds out that Julia regularly tri to sce gay men who e to the meetgs wh the hop of "-gay-g" them, and he do ed manage to get laid wh her. Fally when the man she is actually a maid to gets married to a woman, she is so happy that she actually hs/shov the obvly gay terr rator when he gets too close to the groom.