The spe/flexibily of Camp Gay and Camp Straight - TV Trop Fom

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

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.

WHERE DO BISEXUAL CHARACTERS F WHEN TO CAMP GAY AND CAMP 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.

WHAT DO CAMP MEAN IN GAY TERMS

" 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. 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.

CAMP GAY/QUOT

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.

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. So then, if everyone starts actg mascule to avoid beg stereotypil, don’t that mean gay men actg mascule be the stereotype? 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.

HOW JEFF HILLER SMASHED GAY TV TROP ON HBO’S SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE

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. Deriv om the French gay muny's slang term se mper, meang "to pose an exaggerated fashn. 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 I’m gay I drs that way / Is somethg wrong wh that?

CAMP GAY/LANIC

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. From the silly accents, to the 80s Exploatn Film-style strgs the background of the sks, to the ludicro and Bloody Hilar lyril ntent, to the nstant homoeroticism and crossdrsg, to his obssive idolisatn of gay in celebry women like Brney Spears, Mariah Carey, Madonna and Ellen DeGener, to rappg 5/8 over a mil-theatre-style choir, to dog a Solo Duet wh his Enemy Whout about how much Slim Shady lov Marshall, this is the mpit Slim Shady has been or will ever get. Beloved for s mps and extremely gay synthpop theme song (Always by Erasure).

So much so, that even the 80s, many were spic that was actually gay propaganda.

Not all of them were necsarily gay, but they were all extremely mp, which is required for beg a dandy. Eher way, should they really unt as exampl of the trope when, pecially David's se, he's explicly stated to not be gay but jt pan wh a preference towards guys? If that's the se, should the scriptn for both be expand to clu said preferenc; Camp Gay will be expand to male-leang MLM dividuals while Camp Straight appli to female-leang male dividuals.