Word of Gay - TV Trop

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• WORD OF GAY
• GAY WIZARD
• GAY OPTN
• DO WORDOFGAY OVERRI AMBIGUOGENR?
• POOR IMAGE: WORD OF GAY.WTERN ANIMATN
• NEEDS HELP: WORD OF GAY

WORD OF GAY

"When Word of God explas that a character was actually LGBTQ+ outsi of the seri, choosg to portray them as Ambiguoly Gay or wh an Ambiguo Genr Inty (at most) the actual story.

Attack on Tan: Ymir was announced as gay and love wh her iend Krista on the official se, and acrdg to producer Gee Wada Krista is love wh Ymir as well.

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Black Butler creator Yana Toboso has nfirmed that Grell Sutcliff is a transgenr woman, rather than the effemate gay man that fans origally perceived her as.

His voice actor om the English dub, which Dub Text brought the ia up the first place, says he jt don't know for sure and don't want to e gay stereotyp as evince. He also said he wanted Mystique and Dty to be a uple, although that one beme official once Marvel felt able to do (durg Claremont's origal n, Executive Meddlg imposed a strict "no gays" le), Mystique's attempts to rurrect her wife beg her major qut on Krakoa.

The va Sunstreaker om the Dreamwave Transformers ics was apparently wrten as beg gay, although (this beg a ic aimed at teen fanboys) was never gog to be ed the story self. Also, when first revealg his tentn to make Rotor gay, he put up a qutn to the fans on which characters he was planng on givg the Word to - half of the answers me back to Rotor and Tommy Turtle, a mor character the ic that had been given a signifince the ANONYMOUS arc, but was nied by Penrs, as the turtle had died for good, by then.

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Triumph om the Jtice League was supposed to be a closeted gay man, but Christopher Prit was unable to make non bee he uld never fd an appropriate storyle to al wh the subject matter. When asked if the Srlet Lady versn of Chloé was gay, creator zoe-oneama said that she was "Money-Power-Fame-sexual"; that is, genr don't matter to her as long as the person is rich and famo.

The -thor (Green Phantom Queen) for Infy Tra: Seeker of Croc revealed an AN that Specter is gay and csh on Ryoken wh a later chapter revealg that he's specifilly miromantic (he n't pursue a romantic relatnship wh someone unls he's had an emotnal attachment to them beforehand). The -thors for The Pokémon Squad nfirmed that most of the st is eher gay or bisexual, wh the Author Avatars beg the exceptns to the le (RM is Camp Straight, but that's ).

The Half of It: Among the other gay characters the story, the briefly seen "Math Class Girl" who pliments Ellie after her talent show performance is nfirmed as "a b baby-dykish.

DO WORDOFGAY OVERRI AMBIGUOGENR?

Part of the reason the novel ma him gay was that there were plans to make him the first mentned gay character Star Trek, but those plans were scrapped early productn.

Florence Foster Jenks: Simon Helberg nfirmed he played Cosmé McMoon, the tular character's pianist, as gay and rearched pre-World War II gay life while preparg for the role. In the film self, Jennifer's relatnship wh the Fal Girl Needy is portrayed as filled wh Homoerotic Subtext (cludg a very lengthy make-out ssn), but how much of this is Jennifer and how much is her Demonic Posssn is never spelled out. Robert Carlyle believ that his Begbie character Traspottg is secretly gay and love wh Renton bee he n't unrstand why else a man who hat dgs would hang around wh an addict and follow him to London and also bee he don't beat or kill the woman he gets off wh who turns out to be a man.

Durg a scriptwrg meetg for one of the Harry Potter films, she hand back a script page which Dumbledore spoke about a girl he "knew" once wh a note sayg "He's gay! " Enforced for books prr to the sixth: before was repealed 2003 (2000 Stland), the notor homophobic law Sectn 2A to the Lol Government Act 1986 (popularly known as "clse 28") forba lol thori om "promotg homosexualy", which practice was terpreted as banng any books ntag sympathetic gay characters om state school librari.

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Onle, Pierce actually wrote about experienc she had wh a number of fans that ed her to move away om Word Of Gay and really ph herself and her publisher to put more obvly LBGTQ characters her stori.

It was nfirmed as of this blog post, where Duane reveals that they (the real-life Tom and Carl) were ed a gay uple, but for the sake of their privacy and reers was kept quiet, wh her only nfirmg followg the real-life Tom's ath.

California Diari has Ducky, who at bt is Ambiguoly Gay throughout the seri (he shows no tert datg girls, his female iends are all thirteen years old and platonic, and at one pot he borrows a bunch of books by famo LGBT thors) but ghost-wrer Peter Lerangis nfirmed rponse to a fan on Twter that Ducky was gay. Sce he never gets any, really don't make much difference which any he don't get, and at least he might get a brief reputatn for social awarens:-)" Note that this was three years after wrg Monstro Regiment, so he actually had gay characters.

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Ava's Demon zig-zags this trope, revealg -ic that Od's sister has a girliend, while Gil is prented as Ambiguoly Gay wh the thor nfirmg his orientatn, and Ava is as yet a matter of Word Of Bi. Cecil of Wele to Night Vale is certaly queer, nsirg that he announc his massive csh on the very male Carlos the Scientist the first episo, but the seri' creators still took the time to explicly nfirm that he do intify as gay.

This was the se for a while when Jt McElroy origally said that his character, Taako, was gay, but that he didn't feel fortable makg explicly non, as the characters are often farcil and he didn't want to accintally make Taako to an offensive stereotype. Wele Home (Clown Illtratns): In a few different posts, Clown has stated on a Twter post they ma for Pri Month 2022 that Eddie is gay, Julie is genrfluid, Poppy is a lbian transgenr woman, and Frank is nonbary and 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".