History Film / GBF

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Thanks to 'Shley's sheltered upbringing. Caprice shuts down her offer of brownies to Tanner, saying carbs to gays are like sunlight to vampires. 'Shley pauses before asking "Carbs make gays [[Literature/{{Twilight}} sparkle]]?"

[[caption-width-right:350:From left to right: [[SeeminglyWholesomeFiftiesGirl 'Shley]], [[StraightGay Tanner]], [[SassyBlackWoman Caprice]], [[AlphaBitch Fawcett]], and [[CampGay Brent]].]]

* SeeminglyWholesomeFiftiesGirl: Queen of the Mormon kids 'Shley, who appears at first to be a prissy, pure, old-fashioned girl, is revealed to be obsessed with learning sexual techniques to please her closet-case boyfriend. It gets especially extreme when she seduces Glenn, who she thinks is gay and therefore "doesn't count". When the others burst in on her straddling him, she scolds them when they gasp the Lord's name in vain.

* HasTwoMommies: A minor character in Soledad's GSA.

* ShesGotLegs: All three girls -- but especially Caprice -- wear clothes designed to show off their legs.

* GetBackInTheCloset: The film is rated R despite having no sexual moments or strong language. Wiki/TheOtherWiki notes that the MPAA tends to be harsher on independent movies than major studio-backed films.

* InitialismTitle

Having been forced out of the closet, Tanner finds himself a target for homophobic bullying, were it not for the intervention of the school's three [[AlphaBitch alpha females]] -- the beautiful and popular Fawcett Brooks (Creator/SashaPieterse), who rules the popular kids, the fierce and talented Caprice Winters (Xosha Roquemore), who leads the minorities and theater kids, and the ditzy goody-two-shoes Ashley "'Shley" Osgoode (Andrea Bowen), to whom the religious Christians of the school defer. All three of them want him to be their G.B.F. and endorse one of them for prom queen -- so they attempt to mold him into their ideal arm candy and force him to choose between popularity and friendship...

Change is sweeping the suburban North Gateway high school when magazines announce the new trend for every girl worth her heels -- a GayBestFriend (appropriated as G.B.F.), who, allegedly, will give out fashion and relationship advice while still providing a platonic, minority-inclusive friendship. Soledad (Jojo Levesque) and her group of friends attempt to start a Gay-Straight Alliance in order to find G.B.F.s for themselves except they don't have any openly gay members, which is kind of a necessary requirement. There's only one problem -- North Gateway High School doesn't ''have'' any openly gay boys.

* NotSoDifferent: When [=McKenzie=] thanks Caprice for being her SBF (Sassy Black Friend) she doesn't seem too pleased about being reduced to a stereotypical social accessory, though she doesn't go full-on MyGodWhatHaveIDone.

* RealityEnsues: [[spoiler:It seems like it's going to be the straight prom and the gay prom sniping at each other... only for the principal to haul [=McKenzie=], Caprice, Brent, and the rest of the school prom planners into his office to severely reprimand them for the homophobic posters, and then cancel the school prom entirely. And on top of that, the gay prom is still allowed to be held, as it's an outside project beyond the principal's jurisdiction.]]

Having been forced out of the closet, Tanner finds himself a target for homophobic bullying, were it not for the intervention of the school's three [[AlphaBitch alpha females]] -- the beautiful and popular Fawcett Brooks (Sasha Pieterse), who rules the popular kids, the fierce and talented Caprice Winters (Xosha Roquemore), who leads the minorities and theater kids, and the ditzy goody-two-shoes Ashley "'Shley" Osgoode (Andrea Bowen), to whom the religious Christians of the school defer. All three of them want him to be their G.B.F. and endorse one of them for prom queen -- so they attempt to mold him into their ideal arm candy and force him to choose between popularity and friendship...

* ForciblyOuted: Tanner and Brent, both closeted gay guys, download an app for tracking other gay guys onto Tanner's phone. Girls from their school track Tanner's signal down, and Tanner tries to stop them in public — and failing, revealing to the whole school that he's gay. Upset about this forced outing, he confronts Brent later, and in a fit of petty rage outs Brent to his mother.

* HeteronormativeCrusader: [=McKenzie=], in contrast to the more open-minded 'Shley. She even applies Leviticus 18:22 [[note]]"You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination." [[/note]] onto her inclusive-prom-protest war paint.

* Main/KissingUnderTheInfluence: [[spoiler: Brent and Tanner]].

* QuestionableConsent: During the party, a very drunk 'Shley drags Glenn to a bedroom for him to teach her sexual techniques (this being a full on practial approach to teaching) rationalizing that, since he's gay ([[MistakenForGay he totally isn't]]), it doesn't count. Glenn gathers enough restraint to stop her telling her he's not gay, but allows it to happen when she doesn't seem to mind anyway. While 'Shley ''is'' very drunk, it's heavily implied by her behavior during the rest of the movie that she is actually a very repressed young girl that really wants to experiment, and the budding attraction continues being acted upon through her sobriety. YMMV on whether this is [[ButLiquorIsQuicker Glenn taking advantage of 'Shley's drunkenness]] or [[LiquidCourage 'Shley taking advantage of her own drunkenness]]. Either way, the film portrays it as another hilarious ''worst Mormon ever'' 'Shley moment.

Meanwhile, students Tanner Daniels (Michael J. Willett) and Brent van Camp (Paul Iacono) are best friends who are both closeted homosexuals. Brent downloads an app onto Tanner's phone that allows them to track down other gay guys in the area. However, Soledad and co. have already taken advantage of this app -- and they track down Tanner's phone in public, inadvertently outing him to the school.

* CampStraight: Downplayed with Glenn, he isn't so much as camp, but he isn't macho and his social circle consists of two homosexuals and a girl he's not involved with. Even Sophie is vocally shocked of finding him in bed with 'Shley.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Thanks to 'Shley's shletered upbringing. Caprice shuts down her offer of brownnies to Tanner, saying carbs to gays are like sunlight to vampires. 'Shley pauses before asking "Carbs make gays [[Literature/{{Twilight}} sparkle]]?"

* CrazyCatLady: Seems to be the sad ultimate fate of Ms Hoegel, the teacher who runs the Gay Straight Alliance. She started on the slippery slope after her own GBF left her for San Francisco with a leather queen. Now it seems the most meaningful relationship in her life is with "Anderson Coo-purr".
* Main/DidTheyOrDidntThey: It's unclear whether [[spoiler: Brent and Tanner]] had sex, even to themselves.

* ForciblyOuted: Tanner and Brent, both closeted homosexuals, download an app for tracking other homosexuals onto Tanner's phone. Girls from their school track Tanner's signal down, and Tanner tries to stop them in public — and failing, revealing to the whole school that he's gay. Upset about this forced outing, he confronts Brent later, and in a fit of petty rage outs Brent to his mother.

* QuestionableConsent: During the party, a very drunk 'Shley drags Glenn to a bedroom for him to teach her sexual techniques (this being a full on practial approach to teaching) rationalizing that, since he's gay ([[MistakenForGay he totally isn't]]), it doesn't count. Glenn gathers enough restraint to stop her telling her he's not gay, but allows it to happen when she doesn't seem to mind anyway. While 'Shley ''is'' very drunk, it's heavily implied by her behavior during the rest of the movie that she is actually a very repressed young girl that really wants to experiment, and the budding attraction continues being acted upon through her sobriety. YMMV on whether this is [[ButLiquorIsQuicker Glenn taking advantage of 'Shley's drunkenness]] or [[LiquidCourage 'Shley taking advantage of her own drunkenness]]. Either way, the film portrays it as another hilarious ''worst Mormon ever'' 'Shley moments.

* TransparentCloset: According to Caprice, Brent is "gayer than a VerySpecialEpisode of ''Series/{{Glee}}''". Nobody is really surprised when he's revealed to be gay, ''especially'' not his mother.

* MistakenForGay: Glenn, who seems to be considered gay simply because he's friends with Tanner. This also happened to Sophie, though it's never outright denied that she's a lesbian, although she calling Glenn their "Token vagina enthusiast" implies that she is straight.

* NotSoDifferent: When [=McKenzie=] thanks Caprice for being her SBF (Sassy Black Friend) She doesn't seem too pleased about being reduced to a stereotypical social accessory, though she doesn't go full-on MyGodWhatHaveIDone.

* TransparentCloset: According to Caprice, Brent is "gayer than a VerySpecialEpisode of ''Series/{{Glee}}''. Nobody is really surprised when he's revealed to be gay, ''especially'' not his mother.

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[[caption-width-right:344:From left to right: [[SeeminglyWholesomeFiftiesGirl 'Shley]], [[StraightGay Tanner]], [[SassyBlackWoman Caprice]], [[AlphaBitch Fawcett]], and [[CampGay Brent]].]]

* RealityEnsues: [[spoiler:It seems like it's going to be the straight prom and the gay prom sniping at each other... only for the principal to haul [=McKenize=], Caprice, Brent, and the rest of the school prom planners into his office to severely reprimand them for the homophobic posters, and then cancel the school prom entirely. And on top of that, the gay prom is still allowed to be held, as it's an outside project beyond the principal's jurisdiction.]]