A page for scribg Lanic: Gay Panic. A character's real or perceived homosexualy is toned down to appease Moral Guardians.
Contents:
- HISTORY MA / GAYPANIC
- BANNG THE USE OF GAY AND TRANS PANIC DEFENS
- GAYNGST-INDUCED SUICI
- RELATED MA / GAYPANIC
HISTORY MA / GAYPANIC
* gay panic tv tropes *
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BANNG THE USE OF GAY AND TRANS PANIC DEFENS
An x page listg Homophobia Inx ntent. The trop n volve negative attus towards or stereotyp about lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr … * gay panic tv tropes *
Armoured Closet Gay: A closeted gay who's prompted by Internalized Categorism to exprs homophobia agast others and aggrsively assert his heterosexual bona fis.
Ba-and-Swch Lbians: Two characters are subject to heavy and liberate Homoerotic Subtext, but are never explicly nfirmed as sexual partners, and one or both of them is a heterosexual relatnship by the end of the show.
GAYNGST-INDUCED SUICI
The Gayngst-Induced Suici trope as ed popular culture. A mon trope, often done as a mentary on Homophobia, this is when LGBT characters are … * gay panic tv tropes *
Tends to trivialize the same-sex romance, as if 's only there to enterta the mographic tillated by the ia of people of the same sex behavg homoerotilly together.
Bury Your Gays: If beg gay is (one of) the worst thg(s) you n be and fictn is only satisfyg if virtue is reward and vice is punished, then the gay characters serve to die bee they're gay. Cure Your Gays: The ia that homosexualy is a form of disease or sany that n and mt be "cured" (In Real Life, has been discreded by profsnal anizatns, cludg the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn).
If the rints of a Gayborhood are picted engagg stereotypilly predatory behavurs, such a place (wh s large numbers of gays) across as threateng to a heterosexual dience. Gayngst: Lkg homosexualy and unhapps/prsn/suici n imply that beg gay all those bad nsequenc (rather than the reactns of other people beg the e).
RELATED MA / GAYPANIC
Gay Panic: In TV Trop, this is when queer plotl and/or characters that were airg are sudnly changed or dropped entirely, suggts moral disapproval is behd their disappearance. : The creators want to be clive, but are too aaid of the Moral Guardians to show gay behavr, so they rely heavily on stated assertns of homosexualy.
MasculeFeme Gay Couple: This n be Tth Televisn, but when all same-sex upl are assumed to be like this appeals to outdated genr stereotyp of every romantic relatnship needg to have a "man" and a "woman".
Queer People Are Funny: Humour about gay relatnships bee the participants are gay (as opposed to jok about upl that uld apply to heterosexual upl, i.