Deriv om the French gay muny's slang term se mper, meang "to pose an exaggerated fashn". The term "Camp" morphed to referrg to a sensibily that revels artifice, stylizatn, theatrily, irony, playfulns, and exaggeratn rather than ntent, as San Sontag...
Contents:
- THE SPE/FLEXIBILY OF CAMP GAY AND CAMP STRAIGHT
- WHERE DO BISEXUAL CHARACTERS F WHEN TO CAMP GAY AND CAMP STRAIGHT?
- WHAT DO CAMP MEAN IN GAY TERMS
- CAMP GAY/QUOT
- HOW JEFF HILLER SMASHED GAY TV TROP ON HBO’S SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE
- CAMP GAY/LANIC
THE SPE/FLEXIBILY OF CAMP GAY AND CAMP STRAIGHT
A page for scribg PlaygWh: Camp Gay. Basic Trope: A homosexual male wh stereotypilly girlish tras. Straight: Bob is gay. He is also well- … * tv tropes camp gay *
Macho Camp Jtified: Bob is gay and fs all the stereotyp, but for different reasons: he lisps bee of a ntal problem, lov mils bee his grandma ed to take him to them, etc.
Parodied: Bob is shown gog to a "gay mp" where they teach proper lispg techniqu, what nstut a tly "fabulo" mil, etc. Zig Zagged: Bob acts like a stereotypil gay, but then reveals that he's straight. Averted: Bob is neher gay nor effemate, he's a Ridiculoly Average Guy whether he is gay or not.
Enforced: "I know 's stereotypil, but we need to nvey that Bob is gay. " Invoked: Bob wants to live wh two girls, so he acts flamboyant and effemate so his landlord will thk he's gay and let him. Exploed: See Invoked, where through his act, the landlord would mistake him as gay and Bob n have all the fun secret.
WHERE DO BISEXUAL CHARACTERS F WHEN TO CAMP GAY AND CAMP STRAIGHT?
A page for scribg Quot: Camp Gay. * tv tropes camp gay *
Defied: Bob is gay but go out of his way to make sure he don't f any of the stereotyp. " Conversed: "I'm really sick of all the portrayals of gay men on this show beg credibly mp.
Denstcted: Bob is gay and fs the stereotype, but this is jt a fa he puts up bee no one will accept him as a gay man any other way. Alternatively, Bob's extreme effemacy mak other people thk all gay people act like Bob, and th ntribut to discrimatn and stereotypg of all homosexual mal. Renstcted: Bob eventually is accepted for who he is and drops the fa, but then realiz that he actually enjoyed beg Camp Gay.
And he jt happens to be a fabulo gay man wh a flair for fashn, mils, and okg. After he figured out that he is gay and effemate, he mt face-to-face al wh his parents who won't accept who he is.
WHAT DO CAMP MEAN IN GAY TERMS
Deriv om the French gay muny's slang term se mper, meang "to pose an exaggerated fashn." The term "Camp" morphed to referrg to a … * tv tropes camp gay *
Due to his flamboyant appearance and behavrs, Bob go outsi, and gets beaten up, or maybe even murred, by Heteronormative to Camp Gay, darlg!
""I like my beer ld, my TV loud, and my homosexuals fuh-lamg!
This mt be the GAYEST mil of all time""My name is Leeron, but you n jt ll me Ron. Oooh yaaah~""Sayg Tristan is a stereotype for actg flamboyant is basilly sayg any gay man who acts that way is a stereotype as well.
CAMP GAY/QUOT
A page for scribg ImageLks: Camp Gay. Hugh Jackman one of his theatril rol: 1◊, 2◊ Blae and Antoe om the "Men on Film" sketch … * tv tropes camp gay *
So then, if everyone starts actg mascule to avoid beg stereotypil, dont that mean gay men actg mascule be the stereotype?
HOW JEFF HILLER SMASHED GAY TV TROP ON HBO’S SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE
A Camp Straight is a person who exhibs all of the mon characteristics of a Flamboyant Gay but is heterosexual. * tv tropes camp gay *
Robson's face was geilly modified to create a blowjob assembly le, but he's such an offensive riture that I don't thk he's actually gay.
He acts like an eight-year-old whose only experience wh gay culture is the He-Man rtoon om the 80s cid to pretend to be gay for Halloween.
CAMP GAY/LANIC
Also: Sramucci is followg all the gays! * tv tropes camp gay *
Deriv om the French gay muny's slang term se mper, meang "to pose an exaggerated fashn.
"That guy is so gay, I'll bet you anythg he's straight." Peter Dragon talkg about a director, Actn A Camp Straight is a person who exhibs all of the mon characteristics of a Flamboyant Gay but is heterosexual. An old character type—until the 1970s or so, many segments of society... * tv tropes camp gay *
See also Camp Gay, Macho Camp, Camp Straight, Campy Combat, and Summer Campy. There's a Runng Gag about the Space Rangers beg Mistaken for Gay bee of their mpy uniforms. Add to this proto-Synthwave soundtracks (a si effect of the limed budget for the movi) and the unbelievable Ho Yay that rults om havg an aspiratnal variant of the Male Gaze poted at the gigantic ripplg mcl of a Hollywood Actn Hero, and you have a genre that is loved equally by both hyper-mascule nservativ and by a Manly Gay LGBT Fanbase, not to mentn a large proportn of Guilty Pleasure-seekers and ironylords.
The Gang's All Here (1943) is an early mp classic, boastg lavish over-the-top mil numbers, Carmen Miranda and her ridiculo u hats, some extremely phallic bananas, and lyrics like "Some people say I drs too gay / But every day I feel so gay / and when Im gay I drs that way / Is somethg wrong wh that? The Rani, a ridiculo Large Ham Mad Scientist character wrten specifilly a 'gay in' style. Kev Ayers featur possibly the gayt, most outrageoly mp, mic vios ever mted to tape.
His 1973 h Carribean Moon has all the gayns buttons liberately racked up way past eleven. Liberace, whose act was magnificent high mp, but who life sucsfully sued newspapers for even htg that he was gay, matag that he was straight spe the fa.