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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).