Camp Gay/Lanic - All The Trop

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. 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.

WHERE DO BISEXUAL CHARACTERS F WHEN TO CAMP GAY AND CAMP STRAIGHT?

" 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.

WHAT DO CAMP MEAN IN GAY TERMS

" Conversed: "I'm really sick of all the portrayals of gay men on this show beg credibly mp.

CAMP GAY/QUOT

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.

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

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!

CAMP GAY/LANIC

""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. 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?