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Contents:
- SORRY, I'M GAY
- HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
- CHRISTIAN'S OUTREACH TO GAYS: I'M SORRY
- HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOU’RE GAY, STRAIGHT, OR SOMETHG BETWEEN?
- SORRY ACNA, WE’RE CALLG OURSELV GAY
- SORRY WE ARE GAY
- THE SOLUTN TO "GAY" INSULTS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH
- SORRY GAYS, YOU DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE FREE FROM DISCRIMATN
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 … * sorry we are gay *
When a loved one tells you they don’t re that you’re lbian, gay, bisexual, trans or any of the other many scriptors of people our muny, they are tryg to, wh words, wrap their arms around you and give you a big hug. 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.
HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
Andrew Mar's visn is for the evangelil church to bridge s gap wh the gay muny. The first step -- regnizg the pa ed by many Christians. * sorry we are gay *
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.
She seeks to get back together wh him, and he rattl off a short list of reasons why he didn't want to, endg wh "Also, I thk I might be gay. 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. 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.
CHRISTIAN'S OUTREACH TO GAYS: I'M SORRY
In a society where most are expected to be straight, n be difficult to take a step back and tly ask if you’re gay, straight, or somethg else. There's no "right" way to e to terms wh your orientatn. But there are a few thgs you n do to explore your feelgs and help figure thgs out. Here's how. * sorry we are gay *
She tri to dissua him by tellg him she's gay, but he isn't put off bee, his words, "there's a first time for everyone". 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.
HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOU’RE GAY, STRAIGHT, OR SOMETHG BETWEEN?
* sorry we are gay *
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.
SORRY ACNA, WE’RE CALLG OURSELV GAY
How is Sorry We Are Gay abbreviated? SWAG stands for Sorry We Are Gay. SWAG is fed as Sorry We Are Gay equently. * sorry we are gay *
In Hamburger: The Movie, the ma character is about to be molted by a female character, so he pretends to be gay so she'll leave. 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.
SORRY WE ARE GAY
SWAG - Sorry We Are Gay. Lookg for abbreviatns of SWAG? It is Sorry We Are Gay. Sorry We Are Gay listed as SWAG * sorry we are 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.
He mak var foolish exc as he tri to fd the least upsettg way of dumpg her, and claimg to be gay is one of the first thgs he tri. 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.
THE SOLUTN TO "GAY" INSULTS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH
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Lowell says this to Liv after they've been datg for a uple of episos and then has to clarify that 's only bee he ate the bra of a gay guy. 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.
In The Longt Journey, when April tri to get past a secury guard by actg cute, all he says is "Sorry, ma'am, but I'm gay". 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. Dorian also has a variatn of this; if you flirt wh him as a female Inquisor, he do actually flirt back, believg to be a joke between iends — he clarifi this once he's e out to you as beg gay, however, puttg a dampener on whatever romance the player may have thought was brewg.
SORRY GAYS, YOU DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE FREE FROM DISCRIMATN
Elan tried to get out of prison by temptg his guards wh an illn of a woman — only to fd that one guard was married and the other gay.
In Geo Prcs Creamy Beamy, the gay alien-posg-as-exchange-stunt X Hoshibana beiends Cheeke St Cherrywell, much to the annoyance of The Girls Of The Class:.