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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". Nearly always Played for Lghs, this is a very mon versn of the typil Comg-Out Story, where a closeted homosexual or bisexual person fally adms to their heterosexual iends and fay that they like the same sex. Where a Comg-Out Story is equently a ser event wh a character's life, wh iends and fay sometim beg ially unacceptg of the revelatn, a Comg Straight Story almost always volv the gay iends rapidly g to accept the fact that their iend is straight.

Often also serv the purpose of a Gay Aop about beg open-md and acceptg of those wh a different sexual orientatn, although this may be unrmed by the trope beg Played for Lghs. In Three to Tango, Matthew Perry's character is ially Mistaken for Gay, then keeps up the faça for a number of selfish reasons until the film's climax, where the trope to play.

In the movie Where the Heart Is note, Crisp Glover's character out as straight after pretendg to be gay bee he thought would be the only way people would take him serly as a fashn signer. At one pot her adolensce she go off on an epic rant about how her mother needs to stop fdg nice girls to set her up wh, bee she 'really lik boys better', and how hard is for her to fd a good man, sce everyone already assum she's gay bee she's a woman and tryg to bee a knight (a distctly male profsn the post-Change world). Not shown the show self, but an early episo noted that many of the group assumed that Chandler was gay when they first met him, until such events as him gettg dnk one Thanksgivg and talkg to Phoebe’s breasts assured them otherwise.

On Queer as Folk (US), everyone assum Hunter is gay bee he ed to be a prostute and showed an tert Brian when they first met, so when he asks Michael for extra money bee he has a date, Michael and Ben are very exced that he fally has a boyiend. Played for Lghs on one episo of The Colbert Report, rponse to a Fox News report about straights beg reprsed, where the heavily implied to be gay Colbert out as straight a fairly unnvcg manner that has some parallels to someone g out as gay to his or her fay. A rare example of this trope not beg played for lghs: After beg laid off om his longtime job as an Army barber, Bill pretends to be gay so he n work as a hair stylist, bee apparently no woman Arlen tsts a straight man to do her hair.

However, when one of his ctomers says 's such a shame he's gay bee she's extremely attracted to him and would love to do all sorts of nasty thgs wh him, he n't rist tellg her he's not. Had a gay optn as a Non Standard Game Over: If you ed Larry's fly on Gary the flamboyantly gay towel attendant or gave him the key to Larry's room, you were treated to a game over screen featurg the two walkg hand hand to the sunset.

It's Downplayed eher se sce all the game's romantic arcs more or ls fizzle out by the end, but 's neverthels an tertg versn of the ual suatn where the Straight Optn receiv a lot of foc and the Gay Optn is more hidn away. In Bahamut Lagoon, pendg on the optns you pick, the Heroic Mime n eher be terted the prcs (who ends up leavg him for someone else halfway through the game anyway), or his old gay mentor, a rpected war general and urt sorcerer. The two aren't exactly equal, though; while heterosexual marriage provis the player wh a dowry, an ocsnal source of e and ems, and a cutscene tailg the importance of the marriage to the hero's life, the gay marriage jt giv you the e and ems — and the game ocsnally refers to his hband as a "wife" by mistake.