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SORRY, I'M GAY
The Sorry, I'm Gay trope as ed popular culture. An admirer (possibly abhorrent) is puttg the mov on someone who clearly has other plans. They rebuff … * thesupremerk9s gay *
This trope is meant to be genr-ntral but for some reason, "Sorry, I'm a lbian" ually jt don't work as well (not that "Sorry, I'm gay" works all of the time for men eher). See also Inpatible Orientatn, when the person is actually tellg the tth, and Have I Mentned I Am Gay?, when the person claims they're gay but is never seen showg attractn towards anybody of the same sex. Two occurrenc The Gentlemen's Alliance: Takanari tells Hae and his many female admirers at school that he's gay (and that Maguri is his lover) to dissua them om pursug him; this isn't te.
After some nfn as to what the words "gay" and "straight" actually mean, she explas that no one regards sexualy that manner anymore and everybody jt do everybody.
In Stormwatch 46, a rare Breather Episo, Fahrenhe, Jenny Sparks, and Flt are at a rtrant Paris, and Fahrenhe has already picked up a hot guy, but when she lls Flt over to translate what he's sayg, turns out what he was tryg to tell her was he's gay.
ALL GAYS ARE PROMISCUO
The All Gays are Promiscuo trope as ed popular culture. The homosexual versn (and logil ncln) of I'm a Man; I Can't Help It, All Men Are … * thesupremerk9s gay *
He won't take "no" for an answer, so she tells him exactly why she hat guys like him who only see her as a Trophy Girliend and nclus wh mentng she's gay before slammg her door his face. In The Specials, Amok mak a pass at Power Chick, who thks he's jokg bee she's openly gay, even brgg up that she was on the ver of The Advote. The barista chas him up afterwards and mands to know why he's been avoidg her ever sce, puttg to him that he "mt" be gay bee he talks and thks like a woman.
GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
A page for scribg Rep: South Park S 7 E 8 South Park Is Gay. Origal air date: 10/22/2003 The metrosexual craze hs South Park, makg sissi out of … * thesupremerk9s gay *
When one guy fally approach her, she sudnly be horrified at her "fily", puttg the rg back on and shg to an explanatn of why she took off—only for the guy to cut her off wh, "Yeah, I'm gay. She repli "Sorry, I'm gay, " which don't entirely dissua the man she's talkg to, who tri to fd out if she and her fict partner would both be willg to- you know.
When Bill tells him that she's only terted women he accepts easily enough as he's bisexual (which he suggts is the norm for Roman society) and one of his fellow soldiers is gay.
In The First Shop of Coffee Prce, Han Kyul hir Eun Chan to pretend to be his gay lover and show up durg the dat his mother has set him up on, to sre away prospective girliends. Inverted on My So-Called Life, as when Rickie fds out that Delia has a csh on him, he tri feebly to ask her for Delia to tell him that she knows he's gay and that she only has a csh on him bee she wants one that "n't hurt so much". "Oooh, he's cute, you'll have to tie the sock on the doorknob when he around, " she os, and he s, sticks out his hand to shake, and says, "Hi, I'm gay.
Gay rights movement, civil rights movement that advot equal rights for LGBTQ persons—that is, for lbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenr persons, and queer persons—and lls for an end to discrimatn agast LGBTQ persons employment, cred, hog, public acmodatns, and other areas of life. * thesupremerk9s gay *
At a bar, Cameron (played by Eric Stontreet, whose real-life heterosexualy ma this more amg) succsfully bets his partner Mchell and another gay iend that he n get an attractive woman at the bar to give him her phone number. When he hs off amazgly well wh the girl, he later eaks out over how to break to her that he's actually gay, as he believ she's fallen love wh him.
Sam Malone, The Casanova nng Cheers, had this as his Plan Z: If a one-night stand ever beme too attached to him, he would have one of his guy iends pretend to enter a gay relatnship wh him. In other words, stead of sayg "Sorry, but I'm gay, therefore I n't be a romantic relatnship wh you, " they're sayg "I'm sorry that I'm gay and I want to be a romantic relatnship wh you, heterosexual male iend. Another female example Vampire: The Masquera - Bloodl, where one woman n turn down a male Player Character by tellg him "I jt remembered, I'm gay.