Straight Gay - TV Trop

Contents:

• GAY OPTN
• INX NAMPAC / STRAIGHT GAY
• HOW JEFF HILLER SMASHED GAY TV TROP ON HBO’S SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE
• THE SPE/FLEXIBILY OF CAMP GAY AND CAMP STRAIGHT

GAY OPTN

While the real world, LGBTQ+ persons are jt as varied personaly and tras as straight/cisgenr on, has sued televisn wrers to e mon stereotyp for their gay characters li of actually makg them "real people".

INX NAMPAC / STRAIGHT GAY

Even some LGBTQ+ people perpetuate the stereotyp by cricizg those who fall outsi of them as "not really gay" or words to that effect. Wh media tend for gay dienc, gay wrers have their own subculture of stereotyp that ocsnally leak to the mastream.

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

All Gays Love Theater: The ia that all gay men are theater fanboys, and everyone who works theater is naturally gay. Closet Key: An attractive character who helps another character of the same sex realize that they're gay or bisexual.

Gay Bravado: Characters makg homoerotic ments and suggtns to one another is Played for Lghs, bee of urse they're too macho to really be gay. Gay Moment: A man has a moment wh another man wh untentnal homoerotic unrton, then affirms rponse that he is not gay.

Gay Optn: When a player character a vio game n pursue romantic relatns wh a member of the same sex, if the player is so cled. Gay Romantic Phase: The ia that gayns is a phase that one go through before growg up and gettg to a heterosexual relatnship. Get Back the Closet: When a work jumps up the rough amework for what's "appropriate" bee ntas gay ntent.

THE SPE/FLEXIBILY OF CAMP GAY AND CAMP STRAIGHT

Geo Gee: A profsnal wrtler who tak on many homosexual mannerisms but stops short of admtg to beg a homosexual.

Homosexual Reproductn: Two characters of the same sex somehow have a child that is blogilly related to both of them.