The If It's You, It's Okay trope as ed popular culture. Someone is mostly straight or gay, wh one exceptn. A romantic ratnalizatn that remov ( …
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The Comg Straight Story trope as ed popular culture. A straight character is believed by everyone wh a group to be gay. Eventually, that straight … * tv tropes straight gay *
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.
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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 Phoebes breasts assured them otherwise.
The Gay Optn trope as ed popular culture. When a vio game—ually a dited Romance Game, RPGs, or Wi-Open Sandbox—allows the player … * tv tropes straight gay *
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.