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Contents:
- RELATED MA / ARMOUREDCLOSETGAY
- DO NOT ILLTRATE: ARMOURED CLOSET GAY
- CONTEXT MA / ARMOUREDCLOSETGAY
- ARMOURED CLOSET GAY/QUOT
- CATEGORY:ARMOURED CLOSET GAY
- THE POWER OF THE DOG AND THE ARMORED CLOSET GAY TROPE
- HISTORY MA / ARMOUREDCLOSETGAY
RELATED MA / ARMOUREDCLOSETGAY
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DO NOT ILLTRATE: ARMOURED CLOSET GAY
A page for scribg Quot: Armoured Closet Gay. * armored closet gay tv tropes *
It don't match the meang of the trope: the people the image appear to be part of an LGBT pri para, whereas the trope is about a character who acts straight or even homophobic to hi their sexualy. GLAAD revealed at a panel Augt that 62 gay and bisexual televisn characters were killed off on televisn the past two years, cludg on Orange Is the New Black, Hoe of Cards, Pretty Ltle Liars, The Walkg Dead, and Empire.
From Aled Hchck's oedipal Bno Strangers on a Tra to his Leopold and Loeb stand-s Rope to the serial killer offg gay men the servedly much-maligned Cisg to the recent French film Stranger by the Lake, the praved homosexual has been a mastay of the big screen. Exampl of the evil and nnivg, while not necsarily murro, gay n be found Downton Abbey's footman Thomas, Orange Is the New Black's Pistella, Sndal's Cys, and Bat Motel's eratn of Norman.
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Atralia's Wentworth rape to terrifyg effect while this season's Orange Is the New Black even clud a flashback sequence of gay male guard Pistella's rcerated love tert beg gang-raped. Queer people serve more than the mockery of trans/nonbary people seen the Zoolanr 2 character of All, portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch, or the butt-of-gay-jok character Bradley Dirty Grandpa. Ted Haggard, a fundamentalist Christian pastor who was volly agast gay marriage his sermons, yet was ught fornitg wh male prostut[[/note]], or the Law of Inverse Homosexualy: ''The more [[SpiclySpecificDenial volly opposed]] a person is to homosexualy, the more likely they are [[YouAreWhatYouHate to be gay themself and closeted about ]].
While seeg nothg wrong wh beg gay and of self, she thks that her feelgs and the feelgs of her iends [[spoiler:will break apart their iend group, as her feelgs for a prev iend ed a prev iendship of hers. 49* ''Anime/YuriKumaArashi'' is this trope on crack; post-apolypse shelter Tokyo claims they're at war agast the uplifted nnibalistic Bears, but they're secretly a homophobic elist cutthroat anizatn mostly nsistg of lbian upl who routely vote on which public transgrsor to throw unr the b as ba for bears, or even execute their ras the dark and pot fgers at bears.
50[[/folr]]5152[[folr:Comic Books]]53* ''ComicBook/AllNewXMen'' revealed that Iceman was gay, but was tryg to supprs that so that he wouldn't face discrimatn on another ont addn to the FantasticRacism he already got for beg a mutant.
ARMOURED CLOSET GAY/QUOT
55** When Teenage Kix is blackmailed to firg one of the members, Shout Out is blackballed to qutg them supposedly for beg gay ( fact, bee the team lear was cheatg on him wh another teammate, and apparently Shout Out wasn't as good). 56** Soldier Boy has sex wh the Homelanr (the former is stupid enough to believe his worths to enter the Seven is beg tted and found wantg, jt like is every year), but has to be reassured that "there's nothg gay about ".
57* Creator/FrankMiller has said that the characters "sublimate their sexual urge to crime-fightg" [[ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobTheBoyWonr his ics]] and that Batman would fact "be much healthier if he were gay".
CATEGORY:ARMOURED CLOSET GAY
Yet after ''ComicBook/DoomsdayClock'' rtored Alan's place the timele, the ''Green Lantern 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular'' implied that Alan, much like Obsidian and his own unterpart ''ComicBook/Earth2'', is gay himself and his "iend" Jimmy was actually his boyiend. ]]59* The "Naked Cy" arc of ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'' has a belligerent p named Pl Bridg who is an outspoken bigot towards black people, Asians, Mlims, and--more than anythg--gays. 74* ''Fanfic/ThePokemonSquad'': [[WternAnimatn/TheAdventurOfJimmyNtronBoyGeni Jimmy Ntron]] is a StrawConservative who his racism and homophobia to ver up a disturbg csh on [[WternAnimatn/ChalkZone Rudy]].
76* ''Fanfic/SupperSmashBrosMishonhFromGod'': Sara is one of the most homophobic characters ever wrten fictn, yet she also has a lot more romantic subtext wh her female iends ([[FoeRomanceSubtext and enemi]]) than wh her supposed boyiends. ]]77* ''Fanfic/ThereWasOnceAnAvengerFromKrypton'': In this universe, [[WternAnimatn/MiraculoLadybug Chloe]] is gay but very unfortable wh anyone knowg her te sexualy, and go to great lengths to hi , even throwg homophobic sults towards Juleka and Rose both to hi and out of jealoy wh how they n show their te selv whout shame unlike her. 80[[/folr]]8182[[folr:Films -- Live-Actn]]83* ''Film/TwoThirtySeven'': [[spoiler:Le's crew pick on Sean for beg gay, and when Le mentns an tert tryg anal sex wh his girliend to a iend of his, he ni there beg anythg gay about .
THE POWER OF THE DOG AND THE ARMORED CLOSET GAY TROPE
After nng away om the party, he vows to be back, and be straight, and a few months later, he's anizg a ge fight event unr the psdonym [[HaveIMentnedIAmHeterosexualToday Straight Dave]], and holds a homophobic speech at the dience, before makg out wh his male assistant si the rg. 97* ''[[Film/{{Cursed 2005}} Cursed]]'': JerkJock Bo, who is secretly cshg on Jimmy, makg homophobic remarks toward him multiple tim before Jimmy's llg him on this leads to Bo's g out wh him. He is only ever shown throughout the movie havg some form of sex wh Franky, although he nstantly boasts about havg sex wh his girliend (a classic sign that one is overpensatg) and acts overtly hostile to Franky over their sexual enunter, attemptg to pat Franky as the only "gay" one so he's shunned by most people.
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107* Neil [=McCormick=] ''Film/MysterSk'' is picked up by an exceedgly dangero man: posssed of strong homosexualy and physilly vlent hatred of gays, both sis of his character manift simultaneoly bed. Lov his r more than anythg and is vlent (and vlently homophobic) towards Ian, who he thks is gay, but [[spoiler:he out at the end]], and his sexualy is implied to be the motivatn for his {{Jerkass}} behavr. Dannyl -- a magician om a untry that has very strong prejudic agast homosexualy -- is so credibly ep the closet (due to the aforementned prejudice and an cint as a teen) that he nstantly his magic to supprs any and all attractn to men utterly subnscly--he don't even know he's dog till he exhsts himself magilly and n't do anymore.
He affects a macho meanor (though nobody tak his blter serly), is married to a woman whom he loath and fds physilly revoltg, and has clanste affairs wh lol drag queens while embezzlg money om his unn to we and de his homosexual lovers. 133* In the horror novella ''Lerature/TheSchoolHoe'' by Simon Btwick, the protagonist's iend mted suici after beg raped by two classmat who had mercilsly tormented him on spicn of beg gay ('s never revealed whether he really was. He isn't homophobic (gog by fifteen-year-old boy standards) and his EstablishgCharacterMoment has him rcug a boy who is beg bullied and acced of beg gay by Shley, but he's fely StraightGay, and 's implied that this is a ont when he thks he is outed by Michael and mands to know how he managed to figure out his secret.
147* ''Seri/BadEdutn'':148** Though he directs very ltle homophobia at the openly gay stunt Stephen, TheBully Frank Grayson often lls other stunts and even teachers gay and as an exce to bully them. 150* ''Seri/TheBoys2019'': Ezekiel, turns out, is a closeted gay man who has secret trysts wh men while publicly toutg his nservative Christian beliefs, sayg homosexualy n be cured by prayer. 169* In the Dutch soap seri ''Seri/GoeTijnSlechteTijn'', there was a storyle where a man om a Mlim immigrant background ma many disparagg remarks towards homosexuals and was termed to marry a Mlim woman to prove himself to be a "real man".