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Compare examples of HoYay in other media.

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[[folder: Advertising ]]

* One ad for HD TV has two guys, one of them serious, the other a LargeHam doing a Creator/WilliamShatner impersonation. Their sell goes like this.
--> Ham: I'll be so real, it's like you could reach out and ''touch'' me! *makes reaching gesture, turns to Other Guy* Go on, try to touch me!
--> Other Guy: No...
--> Ham: How 'bout a hug? *as Other Guy steps back, Ham looks sad* This is awkward.
* [[http://www.commercialcloset.org/ This website]] collects any and all LGBT advertisements.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LQpRQh2KSQ This Quizno's ad]] features the distinctly male voice of an oven saying "Put it in me, Scott," and telling Scott to say his lines for the commercial "sexier" (later bowdlerized to "with passion," though that only barely helps).
* Advertising/KevinButler in the UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 commercials seems to have a bit of a thing for Jack Tretton, President of the SCEA. If you look carefully, almost every single commercial has a picture of Jack somewhere in it, he plays ''VideoGame/ModNationRacers'' with him and after losing, comments 'Let's not make it weird Jack.' And then there's the latest commercial, where his return to Sony is opened with him looking longingly at a picture of Jack and saying 'You are the boss of me.'
* Advertising/{{Orangina}} recently released a set of ads [[ParodyCommercial parodying]] different products. One of them was an aftershave, with a puma applying Orangina as an aftershave... which was then closed with an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ipQsUlQmXc actual human rubbing the cougar's face in a rather affectionate fashion]].
%% * [[Franchise/{{Popeye}} Popeye and Bluto.]] Because of orange juice. [[http://www.usatoday.com/money/advertising/2001-05-11-popeye.htm No, seriously.]]
* Another HD ad, this time for Verizon [=FiOS=]: [=FiOS=] guy says he's installed [=FiOS=] in the entire apartment, and this ensues:
--> '''Cable Guy:''' Thanks, but I'll be sticking with cable. And so is Ted.\\
'''Ted (off-screen):''' No, I'm not.\\
'''Cable Guy:''' Ted's just kidding.
--> '''Ted (annoyed):''' ''No, I'm not.''
--> '''Cable Guy:''' *sigh* Ted has betrayed me.
%% * JustForFun/TropeTan and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipe-tan Wikipe-tan]]. Also counts as FoeYay.
%% * Apple's infamous [[http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/ Get A Mac]] commercials actually have their fair share of fan-interpretation.
%% * [[http://mashable.com/2010/01/29/mancrunch-super-bowl-ad/ This ad got banned from the Super Bowl rotation.]]
%% * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qKySNTCkr0 This Czech ice-cream commercial.]]
** There's a Czech car ad with a salesman asking why the customer wants this car while they're in each other's personal space, and are in stances that look like they're about to make out. Featuring these lines:
-->'''Salesman:''' Do you... have a family?
-->'''Customer:''' [sensuously] ''No...''
* Advertising/MAndMs commercials are rather thick with this, from disturbing strip-teases to reenacting the famous scene from Titanic. There's also the commercial for Pretzel M&M's with a lot of discussion about getting a pretzel ''inside'' an M&M.
--> "I've never had a pretzel inside of me before."
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMObqBKCTkM This]] Mercedes-Benz advert with [[UsefulNotes/FormulaOne Schumacher, Rosberg]] [[spoiler: and Hakkinen]] is filled to the brim.
* Confused.com has paired Cara and [[SassyBlackWoman Bertha]] together more and more with each advert, finally culminating in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH5IyxLAV-c this one]] where they [[LetsDuet have a duet]] and Bertha [[MarshmallowHell pulls Cara's face into her chest]].
* A famous modeling image from the late 1980s shows Stephanie Seymour, Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington, Tatjana Patitz, and Naomi Campbell. Naked. Hugging each other. [[SarcasmMode Yeah, no homoerotic subtext there.]]
%% * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQfmpXsLV_4 This]] Planet Fitness commercial.
* Abercrombie and Fitch are well known for its homoerotic imagery in their marketing. However, in some of the images, a [[YaoiFanGirl lucky young lady]] joins the [[EvenTheGuysWantHim the naked hunks]] who are [[AllGaysArePromiscuous engaging in homosexual activities]] for [[http://www.slideshare.net/nich_marketing/abercrombieandfitchcatalogbacktoschool2003 threesomes]], [[http://archiveofchildhood.com/2011/10/25/abercrombie-fitch/af15 foursomes]] and [[http://lucire.com/2001/0831ll8.jpg moresomes]].(mildly {{NSFW}})
%% * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mjlnZD2eXU This]] 1-900-FUN-MATE commercial.
%% * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmbUWa8F6CU Ava the saver and Nikki the spender]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e-zAljAgqs&feature=youtu.be McDonald's Japan]] has made a TV ad which was promptly proclaimed 'best yuri anime of the year' by more than one person. It could just be a case of admiration, up until the last part of the montage, where the AudienceSurrogate girl gives a bouquet of flowers to her sempai, while blushing, and then framing a photo of the moment inside her locker next to a picture of the two of them smiling happily and leaning into each other, with heart-shaped stickers even.
--> '''Twitter user:''' Still genuinely angry that the best lesbian anime content of 2016 was made by UsefulNotes/McDonalds.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=13&v=KUoD-gPDahw This]] UsefulNotes/SuperBowl 2018 commercial for the [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague NFL]] features Eli Manning and Odell Beckham Jr. dancing to "(I've Had) The Time of My Life"...you know, the ''Film/DirtyDancing'' song? [[spoiler:And yes, they pull off the lift.]]
-->'''Landon Collins:''' Just let them dance.
* One of the Liberty Mutual ads starring Doug and the [=LiMu=] emu has Doug musing about TheOneThatGotAway, and has a flashback to him talking about insurance to another guy. The guy reveals he had his headphones on and leaves the elevator, and Doug drops to his knees with a BigNo that the guy couldn't hear his insurance pitch.
* A 1970's commercial for Arm & Hammer baking soda features two female anthropomorphic cats at a party. The cat with glasses acts quite shy around Jessica, the suave cat promoting Arm & Hammer as a way to prevent a smelly litter box, and the commercial ends with her breathily exclaiming "Oh Jessica, you're so ''sophisticated,''" while looking at Jessica with admiration. Doesn't hurt that while she says this, Jessica laps up her drink with her tongue and then licks her lips with a seductive look to the camera. The replies to [[https://twitter.com/TooFatForTumblr/status/1291374801781698561 a repost of the commercial on Twitter]] are full of people shipping the cats.
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[[folder:Asian Animation]]

* Zhang Liang and Yan Lu from ''Animation/QinsMoon'', the second and third household managers of the Confucius School are often seen together having private conversations. Yan Lu is often the person Zhang Liang opens up to when he's feeling insecure about his plans of assisting the Mohist rebels. Yan Lu is also willing to devote himself in helping Zhang Liang by covering up his secrets from Fu Nian, the head household manager, to the extent of [[spoiler:attempting to take all the blame for him when he founds out about them keeping Mohist rebels in the school. Zhang Liang was not very approval of this.]]

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[[folder: Manhua]]
* Liaoyuan Huo and Lu Bu clearly are after Xiao Meng in ''Manhua/RavagesOfTime''. Xiao Meng is also clearly in love with Huo [[spoiler:and they had a LastKiss before Xiao Meng dies tragically in battle]].
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[[folder: Manhwa ]]
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* ''HoYay/TheBreaker'' has its own page.
* ''HoYay/WitchHunter'' has its own page.
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* ''Literature/{{Id}}'' with ''any'' guy that thinks he's an attractive female. And then there's his relationship with Grey, who constantly tries to spend the night together, alone with him, and "teach him things."
* ''Manhwa/CielTheLastAutumnStory'': Right from the start, Daughter and January have a lot of it, and it only gets more and more blatant as the story progresses. [[spoiler: It finally goes from [[RelationshipUpgrade subtext to outright text]] in volume 14.]]
** January also has some with Tenial, who frequently comes across as a little ''too'' interested in working with him.
** There's also a lot of LesYay in the form of pretty much every pair of witches. The most obvious examples are Yvienne and Lariatte, [[SchoolgirlLesbians Ecliche and Judith]], and [[DestructiveRomance Augustine and Saskia]].
* ''Manhwa/DearMyGirls'': A one-sided one with Ravin to Adrian, who is not amused. Granted, Ravin did think that Adrian was a girl when the latter was younger - boys wore dresses when they were that age.
* There's a lot of strong subtext in ''Manhwa/DemonDiary'' though it's all entirely innocent.
* ''Running On Empty'' is a shonen-ai manhwa about a suicidal teen who gets abducted by a falsely accused gang member. Naturally it's full of HoYay.
* ''Manhwa/ImAtEndOfYourSight'' is BoysLoveGenre {{manhwa}}, so is full of this.
* Plenty In ''Manhwa/KillMeKissMe'': Kai sure does want Ghoon-Hahm to kiss his boots... And his obsession with hurting Jung-Woo, whom he constantly refers to as "pretty" and "the Prince". It also sounds almost as if he has this impression of Ghoon-Hahm and Jung-Woo.
** Yeong Joon and Jin Lee are canonically gay and in a relationship.
** In-universe example: The Pretty Boy Fanclub get Ghoon-Hahm and Jung-Woo to act like this in order to take photographs.
** Several people mistake Ghoon-Hahm and Jung-Woo for a couple, although admittedly a few of them were likely joking.
** Jung-Woo and Ghoon-Hahm have a lot of close moments for rivals in love. Jung-Woo even starts sleeping over at Ghoon-Hahm's house from the fourth book onwards, a fact which makes Que-Min think interesting things about the two of them.
** Half of the male named population of the game think Jung-Woo pretty enough to be flirt with.
** Toyed with in regards to Kun and Ga-Woon - while Ga-Woon thinks that Tae is a boy, Kun proceeds to tease and kiss "him" knowing that he's a girl. Ga-Woon views it as this.
* ''Manhwa/LetDai'' is another shonen-ai manhwa.
* Frank and Rai in ''Webcomic/{{Noblesse}}''.
* Lots in the ''Manhwa/TheTarotCafe'' due to EveryoneIsBi.
* In the official French translation of ''Manhwa/WitchHunter'' the attachment from Xing to Tasha is admitted to be romantic.
* ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'': Ja Wangnan and Nya Nia. Nia quickly became Ja's friend after he ran into him being beaten up by loan sharks. He gives him a free food coupon and wishes him best luck. They later meet on the testing grounds of the 20th Floor and quickly form a team and share a room, around the time Ja notices that Nia is a [[DudeLooksLikeALady boy]]. The final clue: Ja has Nia's number under "My Beloved Nia ♥".
* In ''Webcomic/OrangeMarmalade'' Si-Hoo, a vampire, is instantly attracted to Jae-min and, while he says he's only interested in Jae-min's blood, he does start stalking him and [[IfItsYouItsOkay to swing that way for him]].
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[[folder: Mythology & Religion]]
* In the story of Amaterasu and the Cave, the titular sun goddess runs away to sulk in a cave after her brother kills one of her servants (whom she may or may not have been in a relationship with. Did we mention the servant was female?). Having the literal sun leave to sulk in a cave is obviously pretty bad for the rest of the world, so the other gods try to lure her out. First with a bunch of roosters ([[IncrediblyLamePun a cocktease]], if you will). This did not work. The next plan involve tricking her into seeing her own reflections. The reason this was supposed to work varies, but it did not. Their final plan is to go get local fun goddess and party girl Ama-no-uzume and get her to lure out Amaterasu with a ''striptease''. They make enough noise to get Amaterasu to stick her head out, upon which she sees the naked goddess, and [[DoubleEntendre comes out]] [[WebAnimation/OverlySarcasticProductions for real]]. [[DoubleEntendre And that is how Ama-no-uzume gets the sun to rise]].
** Some stories change this to narcissism, with the other gods telling Amaterasu that they found another sun goddess that is way hot, and when Amaterasu, curious, sticks her head out, she sees her reflection. Still makes her suspiciously interested in the female form, though.
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[[folder: Newspaper Comics and Political Cartoons]]

* Peppermint Patty and Marcie from ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''. This was [[LampshadeHanging pointed out and played with]] on two ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketches (one with Rachel Dratch as Marcie telling Ted Koppel about how Peppermint Patty wasn't going to marry her, and again in a sketch about newspaper comic characters having a meeting on what to do to make print media more relevant in a world where people are relying more and more on TV and the Internet to get their news where Peppermint Patty and Marcie [played by Kristen Wiig and short-lived feature player Michaela Watkins] making out for no reason other than the fact that [back then] it's 2009 and they should be free and open with their sexual orientation), a ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' sketch, was referenced in a throwaway reference gag in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', and it's implied that they're married in the webcomic ''Webcomic/AndShineHeavenNow''.
** Magazine/{{Mad}} had a parody strip where the two ran off to San Francisco together, with Marcie making a Melissa Ethridge mix tape for the trip.
** ''And'' in a strip of ''ComicStrip/TheBoondocks'': '''Jasmine:''' Hey, Daddy? Peppermint Patty and her friend Marcie kinda remind me of Auntie and her 'special friend."
** Charles Schultz based Peppermint Patty on his friend Billie Jean King, one of the most famous [[LesbianJock Lesbian Jocks]] in the world.
** A twenty-something Marcie [[LawyerFriendlyCameo turns up]] in the Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}, and is openly bisexual, [[AnythingThatMoves four women topping her dance card]] for most of ''Webcomic/ItsWalky'' Sadly, [[WildMassGuessing unless she grew up to be]] [[{{Shorttank}} Guns]] (one of the four), Patty is nowhere to be seen.
* In ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'', Beetle and Sarge have their moments, though this may or may not be intentional.
** In a comic, Sarge and Cookie. Some [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/BeetleBaileyHoYay.jpg homoerotic tones into this one strip]]. It ''really'' looks like Sarge... towards Cookie... from behind... and then Cookie's voice "gets sweet"... [[NoYay AGH]].
** Blatant HoYay is nothing new for this comic, as [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/omgsuchhoyay_6236.jpg this 1968 strip]] ably demonstrates.
*** [[FridgeBrilliance So]] ''[[FridgeBrilliance that's]]'' [[FridgeBrilliance why he had a heart tattoo on his arm!]]
*** There is a strip that closes up on the heart, and it says... [[ShipSinking Patty]]. [[note]] Though it was a punchline of a one-off joke regarding Cookie having served a lot of patties recently, and she's never seen in person nor mentioned again).[[/note]]
** And then there are the times where it goes from being [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar subtext]] to just being...[[http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b398/ninetails2000/content.gif Text....]]
* Even animals aren't immune. Lots of ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' merchandise featuring [[http://www.garfieldposters.com/shop/catalog_regular.asp?action=1&catalog_unique={48E16DB5-A2C4-455E-8FD0-DD7376772455}&product_unique={CF1E15BC-57EB-4A5F-A84F-74EFE609BDD9} him and Odie]] [[http://www.garfieldposters.com/shop/catalog_regular.asp?show=8&page=3&action=1&catalog_unique={48E16DB5-A2C4-455E-8FD0-DD7376772455}&product_unique={03EAEDC0-6480-427C-AC61-15B1551200A0} seems to be trying to cater to this]]. (Why? Either RuleOfFunny or a very [[{{Squick}} squicky]] scenario.)
** [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2008/ga081214.gif The December 14, 2008 strip]]. Oh my god...
*** There is a strip where Jon has hung up a mistletoe over his door in order to kiss the first person to ring the bell. Said person is the mailman. Garfield's response[[note]]beware, it's translated from swedish back to english[[/note]] "You two look really cute together!"
** There's also the strip from the early '90s in which Garfield sneaks up behind Odie and scratches his butt. To say that this gets Odie ''really'' excited would be an understatement. (Just look at him drool!)
* The relationship between the butch girl-hater Dennis Mitchell and the... quite delicate Joey [=McDonald=] in ''[[ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUS Dennis the Menace]]'' has raised some eyebrows.
* ''Rex Morgan, M.D''. [[http://joshreads.com/?p=529 Just]] [[http://joshreads.com/?p=1141 Rex]] [[http://joshreads.com/?p=1144 Morgan]] [[http://joshreads.com/?p=1262 MD.]]
* The Finnish newspaper comic ''Nanna'' takes this trope far enough to be somewhere between HideYourLesbians and TransparentCloset. The main characters, Hanna and Ritu are "roommates" who happen to share a bed (Nanna SleepsInTheNude), and share random shows of affection, up and including Ritu sneaking behind Nanna to kiss her ears.
* Considering the fact that ''ComicStrip/KrazyKat'' never establishes the titular character's gender, it's a distinct possibility that the story's pivotal {{love triangle}} is entirely male. [[QueerRomance Which would make this another trope entirely.]] This strip started ''[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar in 1917]]''.
* [[https://punch.photoshelter.com/image?_bqG=146&_bqH=eJzzTErVTY4vy8szL4j3ds9INct1MjEx964s83K0MrSwtDI0MABhIOkZ7xLsbOudmFmcWqQdnpmTkZqTq.3pqQYWj3f0c7EtAbJDg12D4j1dbENBerK8sjJNg5LycjzT1eIdnUNsi1MTi5IzABLAI8Q- This]] political cartoon from ''Magazine/{{Punch}}'' has Britannia and Colonia sharing a rather romantic dance, with each of them saying dialogue that amounts to "you're the only one I need". Granted, they're the {{anthropomorphic personification}}s of the United Kingdom and its various colonies, respectively, but it still comes off as ''very'' Sapphic.

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[[folder: Opera ]]
Yes, yes; especially with all the modern productions running around, some weird lines have been played up to scandalous levels:
* In Rossini's "La Cenerentola" (Opera version of Cinderella), the incessant boot-licking on part of the evil stepfather don Magnifico to Dandini (the valet passing from the Prince, all too often camped up as is to be expected from his name), crowning just before Dandini reveals his true identity, when Magnifico, exasperated that the "Prince" won't tell him which of his two daughters he's going to marry, but rambles on about what a bizarre case he is exclaims "Well then, do you want to marry me?"
* Unulfo -who isn't at all helped by the fact he's a lyric counter-tenor- in Rodelinda has in various productions to have an unhealthy attraction to his master king Bertarido -the lines "If I save my lord, my heart wants nothing more" sung in a mezzo-soprano voice leave very little to imagination-; some directors have even paired him up with the bad baritone Garibaldo.
* Captain Corcoran and Sir Joseph Porter KCB from HMS Pinafore have actually been slashed.
* Sgt.Belcore and Nemorino from l'Elisir d'Amore; it seems some directors find Belcore WAY too manly for his own good...
* One Polish adaptation of "Lucrezia Borgia" made Gennaro and Orsini canon lovers, complete with making out on stage.
* In Verdi's ''Don Carlo'', Carlo has to give up the woman he loves (to a political marriage to ''his father!''), so he and his devoted friend Rodrigo decide to go fight for Flemish independence from Spain, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93Cg25lNVkQ in a splendid duet]][[note]]"We swear to live and die together/joined on earth and in heaven..."[[/note]]. Rodrigo eventually [[DiedInYourArmsTonight dies in Carlo's arms.]] In former times this was perfectly aboveboard. Today, it's [[http://bit.ly/1ILcBB5 just another slash pairing]].
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[[folder: Print Media]]
* The Warwick University Rowing Club's Men's Rowing Team [[http://www.buzzfeed.com/mattbellassai/the-naked-british-rowing-team-strips-down-again-for-a-whole calendar]].{{NSFW}}
* ''Magazine/{{Cosmopolitan}}'' is a magazine aimed at women that regularly features scantily-clad women on the cover.
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[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* Pro wrestling has an entire [[TheGimmick gimmick]] built on this reaction known as exotico, though the reaction is more PlayedForLaughs than for sexy, as plain pro wrestling itself is usually enough for the people who watch for that reason.
* Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels and Wrestling/AJStyles, both as tag team partners and opponents for the large majority of their careers, with poor Wrestling/SamoaJoe having to endure it. The two have named their kids after each other.
* The Radiant Rain and The Lovely Lacey, the Minnesota Home Wrecking Crew. Lacey may have set Rain up with her husband but that didn't stop her from calling the radiant one the love of her life.
* Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley openly refer to themselves as HeteroSexualLifePartners, so this was sure to come.
* [[CharlesAtlasSuperPower Stupid strength]], a perpetual grin and suspect holds are Hiroyo Matsumoto's three calling cards. The holds especially when facing off against [=LuFisto=].
* Wrestling/ClaudioCastagnoli had a feud with his {{tag team}} partner Wrestling/ChrisHero in Wrestling/ProWrestlingGuerilla involving trying to get rid of Hero's girlfriend Candice [=LaRae=].
* Wrestling/TheBeautifulPeople were oozing with Les Yay. Wrestling/MadisonRayne and Wrestling/VelvetSky's warmup stretches were obvious enough, though at least had some ''hint'' of ambiguity. Sky and Wrestling/AngelinaLove actually [[TheTease teased]] the audience by leaning in to kiss only to pull away at the last second and laugh. Then there was the feud with [[Wrestling/KatarinaWaters Winter]], who was basically gay for Love, with Sky acting like a jealous girlfriend. Sky was acting like a jealous girlfriend ''before'' it was revealed Winter was the gay party.
* [[Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron Tara]] and [[Wrestling/BrookeAdams Tessmacher]] in [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]]. A blatant example: They would often hold hands on the way to the ring.
* Madison Rayne also seemed go gay for Wrestling/GailKim when the latter returned to TNA, completely out of the blue. It didn't help that the feuded with an actual couple in Eric Young and ODB over the knockout TagTeam titles.
* The 2018 reunion of [[Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling NJPW's]] Golden Lovers tag team (Wrestling/KotaIbushi and Wrestling/KennyOmega) was very much framed as a reunion of former romantic partners. And that's before Wrestling/{{Cody|Rhodes}} kissed Kota on-screen to make Kenny jealous. In fact, Kenny retweeted a Twitter thread that called the storyline "a happy gay romance".
* Wrestling/TaelerHendrix used a 69 pin to win her [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIDBmXk0c8E no-DQ match]] with Wrestling/MandyLeon in Wrestling/RingOfHonor.
* Cara Noir and Ilja Dragunov in PROGRESS. Hand holding, embracing, getting very cuddly, Ilja even calling Cara "beautiful" - twice, ''to his face'', while they gazed intensely at each other - and all while they were supposedly rivals. And that was all in the space of just a few weeks!
** Their 2 out of 3 falls match at Chapter 99 upped the ante. It began with a handshake-turned-homoerotic-embrace, continued with Ilja willingly taking the first fall ''by getting down on one knee and gazing lovingly at Cara'' (pretty obvious what that was meant to look like), and Ilja - for the second time - kissed Cara on the forehead.
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[[folder: Radio ]]
* Scumspawn with {{Satan}} in ''Radio/OldHarrysGame'' is incredibly gay as he follows him around near constantly and it eventually all comes down to [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Scumspawn declaring his sort of platonic love for him in Season five]]... [[MakesSenseInContext while he's eating himself.]] Satan spends a good amount of time tormenting him, angry at the fact a devil is in love with him, but does appreciate him sometimes. In the very least they're HeterosexualLifePartners as Satan points out "Scumspawn, we are not a gay couple."
** Also they lack genitalia so it would be [[{{Asexuality}} asexual]] HoYay at the most.
* ''Radio/LoZooDi105'': Mazzoli himself often gleefully alludes to his (alleged) homosexuality, despite being HappilyMarried with a woman. Of course, he's just joking. Let's just say that in this show nobody ever takes each other seriously - nor is the show itself one to be taken seriously.
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[[folder: Sports ]]
* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m83m6GlRmcc#t=1m52s this clip]] from ''Sunrise On 7'', men's water polo looks and sounds like a homoerotic sport to reporter Edwina Barthowlmew. Braxton calls water polo "a mix of soccer, wrestling, swimming and hardcore gay fetish porn" and she [[http://braxtonssportsblogaboutsports.com/2012/08/10/underwater-speedo-soccer elaborates in more detail]] on her blog.
* The [[{{Kayfabe}} "sport"]] of ProfessionalWrestling may have a significantly inherent element of homoeroticism, since the typical match consists of two muscular, sweaty men [[BelligerentSexualTension who claim to hate one another]] stripping down to small clothes and grappling at each other but amateur wrestling is actually [[http://straightmendont.wordpress.com/2011/10/05/wrestle more homoerotic]].
* In rugby, players often engage in a lot of physical contact and rip each other's clothes off as [[http://www.buzzfeed.com/mattbellassai/definitive-proof-that-rugby-is-the-best-sport-for-butts shown here]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmAhlrT2xcg here]] and [[http://vamonoslibrarian.blogspot.com/2011/09/eye-on-sports-rugby-world-cup.html explained here]].(mildly {{NSFW}})
* UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball has muscular men piling up on each other, grabbing each other's butts and then getting naked in the locker room.
* UsefulNotes/AustralianRulesFootball is very similar to UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball and rugby in terms of men grabbing and piling on top of each other, but in even skimpier clothing, given the uniform typically consists of [[SleevesAreForWimps tank tops]] and [[WhoWearsShortShorts short shorts]].
* [[http://straightmendont.wordpress.com/2011/09/18/play-volleyball This blog]] describes beach volleyball as a homoerotic sport. However, when a pickup volleyball game is coed, the game in question would be full of bi-yay.
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[[folder: Textbooks and accompanying material ]]

* A Chinese textbook used in some Australian universities features a scene of example dialogue, the accompanying video of which is glorious in its HoYay overtones. An effeminate man walks into his roommate's room completely uninvited or unprovoked, ''[[BigLippedAlligatorMoment hangs a pot plant on the ceiling]]'', strides over to his sleeping roomate, bends over to get in close, and starts stroking his roommate's face. The roommate then wakes up and the not even vaguely related conversation in Chinese ensues, and they're still fairly close together throughout the entire thing. Somehow, the textbook itself only improves on this: it depicts the sleeping man with no shirt. Truly, this is an achievement in the realm of TextbookHumor.

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[[folder: Theme Parks]]

* In the Christmas overlay of Disneyland's ''Ride/TheHauntedMansion'', Madame Leota recites, instead of her classical incantation, a ghostly parody of "The Twelve Days of Christmas", titled "The Thirteen Days of Christmas", with various words throughout the poem being replaced by similar-sounding ones associated with ghost stories. For instance, "my true love" is replaced with "my ghoul friend". Why this crosses ([[AccidentalInnuendo probably accidentally]]) into this trope is because "ghoul friend" had already been used in earlier Mansion merchandise as the ghosts' punny version of ''girlfriend''.

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[[folder: Toys]]
* Toys/{{Barbie}}'s massive library of [[WesternAnimation/{{Barbie}} direct-to-video movies]] have their [[HoYay/{{Barbie}} own page]], but the dolls themselves deserve a mention too:
** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earring_Magic_Ken Earring Magic Ken]] from 1993. The idea was to update Ken to make him "cooler", and so this doll came with a lavender mesh shirt, leather purple vest, and most famously, a silver necklace with a circular charm that bears a strong resemblance to a chrome cock ring. He became the accidental gay icon of 1993 and the best-selling Ken doll up to that point in the character's history, despite only being on the market for six months before heteronormative backlash led to his discontinuation.
** Ken as portrayed in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' is CampStraight from here to Malibu. He's even the current page image!

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* One ad for HD TV has two guys, one of them serious, the other a LargeHam who comes off as a Creator/WilliamShatner impersonation. Their sell goes like this.

** That was a Shatner impersonation. and the other guy was the same guy in not-impersonating-anybody mode.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LQpRQh2KSQ This Quizno's ad]] features the distinctly male voice of an oven saying "Put it in me, Scott."

* [[Franchise/{{Popeye}} Popeye and Bluto.]] Because of orange juice. [[http://www.usatoday.com/money/advertising/2001-05-11-popeye.htm No, seriously.]]

* JustForFun/TropeTan and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipe-tan Wikipe-tan]]. Also counts as FoeYay.
* Apple's infamous [[http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/ Get A Mac]] commercials actually have their fair share of fan-interpretation.
* [[http://mashable.com/2010/01/29/mancrunch-super-bowl-ad/ This ad got banned from the Super Bowl rotation.]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qKySNTCkr0 This Czech ice-cream commercial.]]

* Advertising/MAndMs commercials are rather thick with this, from disturbing strip-teases to reenacting the famous scene from Titanic.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQfmpXsLV_4 This]] Planet Fitness commercial.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mjlnZD2eXU This]] 1-900-FUN-MATE commercial.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmbUWa8F6CU Ava the saver and Nikki the spender]].

* M&M's commercials are rather thick with this, from disturbing strip-teases to reenacting the famous scene from Titanic.
--> "I've never ha pretzel inside of me before."

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e-zAljAgqs&feature=youtu.be Mcdonald's Japan]] has made a TV ad which was promptly proclaimed 'best yuri anime of the year' by more than one person. It could just be a case of admiration, up until the last part of the montage, where the AudienceSurrogate girl gives a bouquet of flowers to her sempai, while blushing, and then framing a photo of the moment inside her locker next to a picture of the two of them smiling happily and leaning into each other, with heart-shaped stickers even.

* [[{{Popeye}} Popeye and Bluto.]] Because of orange juice. [[http://www.usatoday.com/money/advertising/2001-05-11-popeye.htm No, seriously.]]

--> '''Cable Guy:''' Thanks, but I'll be sticking with cable. And so is Ted.
--> '''Ted (off-screen):''' No, I'm not.
--> '''Cable Guy:''' Ted's just kidding.

** Their 2 out of 3 falls match at Chapter 99 upped the ante. It began with a handshake-turned-homoerotic-embrace, continued with Ilja willingly taking the first fall ''by getting down on one knee and gazing lovingly at Cara'' (pretty obvious what that was meant to look like), and we finally got a kiss. It may not have been a proper liplock, but it was Ilja kissing Cara tenderly on the forehead in a way that's...well, rather hard to interpret as platonic.

* The Finnish newspaper comic ''Nanna'' takes this trope far enough to be somewhere between HideYourLesbians and TransparentCloset. The main characters, Hanna and Ritu are "roommates" who happen to share a bed (Nanna sleeps in the nude), and share random shows of affection, up and including Ritu sneaking behind Nanna to kiss her ears.

* [[https://punch.photoshelter.com/image?_bqG=146&_bqH=eJzzTErVTY4vy8szL4j3ds9INct1MjEx964s83K0MrSwtDI0MABhIOkZ7xLsbOudmFmcWqQdnpmTkZqTq.3pqQYWj3f0c7EtAbJDg12D4j1dbENBerK8sjJNg5LycjzT1eIdnUNsi1MTi5IzABLAI8Q- This]] political cartoon has Britannia and Colonia sharing a rather romantic dance, with each of them saying dialogue that amounts to "you're the only one I need". Granted, they're the {{anthropomorphic personification}}s of the United Kingdom and its various colonies, respectively, but it still comes off as ''very'' Sapphic.

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[[folder: Mythology & Religion]]
* In the story of Amaterasu and the Cave, the titular sun goddess runs away to sulk in a cave after her brother kills one of her servants (whom she may or may not have been in a relationship with. Did we mention the servant was female?). Having the literal sun leave to sulk in a cave is obviously pretty bad for the rest of the world, so the other gods try to lure her out. First with a bunch of roosters ([[IncrediblyLamePun a cocktease]], if you will). This did not work. The next plan involve tricking her into seeing her own reflections. The reason this was supposed to work varies, but it did not. Their final plan is to go get local fun goddess and party girl Ama-no-uzume and get her to lure out Amaterasu with a ''striptease''. They make enough noise to get Amaterasu to stick her head out, upon which she sees the naked goddess, and [[DoubleEntendre comes out]] [[WebAnimation/OverlySarcasticProductions for real]]. [[DoubleEntendre And that is how Ama-no-uzume gets the sun to rise]].
** Some stories change this to narcissism, with the other gods telling Amaterasu that they found another sun goddess that is way hot, and when Amaterasu, curious, sticks her head out, she sees her reflection. Still makes her suspiciously interested in the female form, though.
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* Wrestling/TaelerHendrix used a 69 pin to win her [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIDBmXk0c8E no-DQ match]] with Mandy Leon in Wrestling/RingOfHonor.

* [[Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron Tara]] and [[Wrestling/BrookeAdams Tessmacher]] in Wrestling/{{TNA}}. A blatant example: They would often hold hands on the way to the ring.

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* [[InnocentInnuendo Entirely unintentional]] example in ''Fanfic/{{Luminosity}}'' between an old vampire named Addy and [[{{Squick}} five-year-old]] Elspeth. The author delayed the next update slightly to edit that particular ending away, but the original ending line of ''Radiance'', chapter 14, was
-->''[[ItMakesSenseInContext I'm very curious about what just happened, Elspeth; why don't we go settle somewhere comfortable, in your room, and try again?]]''
* Sokka and Zuko in ''FanFic/{{Embers}}''. On the beach, they have very similar reactions; they really seem to understand each other, much better than most people; they trust each other, and neither Sokka nor Zuko is naturally trusting; they know that they both have good intentions and respect that, even when they're in conflict; unlike with Toph, Zuko and Sokka are of similar ages.
* In ''Fanfic/TheOfficialFanfictionUniversityOfMiddleEarth'', this is deconstructed in the subjects "Platonic Love 101" by Frodo and Samwise, and "Male Bonding 202", by Legolas and Gloin. Shows what's really behind it. When a hug is just a hug and such.
* The ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' FanFic ''The Girl Who Lived''. Rose swears up and down that she's not a lesbian or bisexual, but spends much of her time describing girl's bodies primarily in the order of breasts, nipples, pubic hair, rest of their body.
* In the ''VideoGame/BackyardSports'' fanfiction ''The Secret Life of the Backyard Kids", Jorge and Tony are [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar "as close as male friends can be in a children's story."]]
* LesYay by the bucketload in ''FanFic/StarsAbove'', as it's an IntercontinuityCrossOver between [[Manga/LuckyStar two of]] [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica the most]] [[YuriGenre yuri-prone]] anime of the last ten years.
* ''FanFic/BrewdeningLove''. Brian and Hugo (Mr. Smith) was the best thing to come out of that fanfic. [[FanFic/BrewdeningLoveExpandedUniverse And has been expanded upon.]]
* In the ''Fanfiction/AlexandraQuick'' series, there is so much HoYay between Alex and Anna. One: They're dorm-mates. Two: They cannot stand when one of them is harmed by an evil entity. Three: At the end of book four, Anna declares platonic love for Alex. Except it might could possibly ''not'' be platonic....
* ''[[Franchize/{{Pokemon}} Pokémon's]]'' Send Your {{Original Character}}s fanfic ''[[PokemonTakeTwo Pokémon: Take Two]]'' gives us a fair share of Ho Yay. And considering [[YaoiFangirl what the authoress is]]...
** Special mention goes to [[UpToEleven Ry]]. The boy considers all males his friends just because they're the same gender, for Christ's sake!
* A lampshaded version occurs in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10670768/5/Clothes-please Clothes, please?]]'', when Ren mocks Pyrrha's inability to confess her love to Jaune.
-->''Still, just saying, if I were Pyrrha, I would have taken Jaune by his scraggly blond head, dragged him back to the room and made'' '''''damn''''' ''sure he had no one else on his mind...No homo.''
* In ''FanFic/AngelOfTheBat'', Cassandra Cain and Stephanie Brown have some LesYay moments (ironically while reading the Bible together) but it's not meant to be much more notable than a lot of their time hanging out in the comics. [[spoiler: Ultimately subverted and even ends up being a plot point- Cassie ''does'' have romantic feelings for Steph, but they're unrequainted.]]
* ''Fanfic/KitsuneNoKenFistOfTheFox'', a ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' HighSchoolAU story, gives us Hinata and Yugito; the one is a sheltered LonelyRichKid, and the other is a former FairCop and a member of the infamous [[TheDreaded Nine Terrors]]. Although both of them are confirmed as straight, the LesYay vibe can be seen here and there between the two of them, with the very first instance of it being shown when Yugito, a self-admitted ShamelessFanserviceGirl, takes a bath in [[WaterfallShower an artificial waterfall]] on the balcony of her hotel suite with the express intention of shocking Hinata's genteelness when the younger woman comes to visit her, and Hinata, after some initial surprise at the sight, spends the next few minutes checking out Yugito's ample body and comparing it to her own. Much later, in the story's Gaiden chapters, Hinata reveals that she's got a bit of a playful side of her own, as shown in the first Gaiden where she gently tickles Yugito's bare feet while the woman is sleeping, and the vibe continues in the seventh Gaiden when Hinata eyes Yugito's body (particularly her [[BigBreastPride boobs]]) up and down [[spoiler:while Yugito's getting ready for her wedding]]. In the latter instance, Yugito actually catches Hinata looking and decides to tease her a bit more.
--> '''Yugito:''' See something you like, dear?
* Career Assassin Miss Alice Band and others, in the ''{{Discworld}}'' writings of Creator/AAPessimal. Alice has a special soft spot for boyish Thieves such as Steffi Gibbet, but a [[SpicyLatina high-wire artiste]] and a complicated relationship with a Seamstress also come into it.
* [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday Despite the author claiming otherwise]], there's a boatload of subtext between Sara and her best friend Lauren in ''Fanfic/SupperSmashBrosMishonhFromGod'', from the former repeatedly referring to the latter as pretty to the fact that they tend to share a room (sometimes even a bed) when they sleep. [[PerspectiveFlip The Lauren Chapter]] all but confirms that this is the case. Then again, considering this is a TrollFic with a homophobic protagonist, this was probably intentional...
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[[folder: Religion]]

* In the ''Fanfiction/AlexandraQuick'' series, there is so much LesYay between Alex and Anna. One: They're dorm-mates. Two: They cannot stand when one of them is harmed by an evil entity. Three: At the end of book four, Anna declares platonic love for Alex. Except it might could possibly ''not'' be platonic....
* ''[[Franchize/{{Pokemon}} Pokémon's]]'' Send Your OCs fanfic ''[[PokemonTakeTwo Pokémon: Take Two]]'' gives us a fair share of Ho Yay. And considering [[YaoiFangirl what the authoress is]]...

* Scumspawn with {{Satan}} in ''Radio/OldHarrysGame'' is incredibly gay as he follows him around near constantly and it eventually all comes down to [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Scumspawn declaring his sort of platonic love for him in Season five]]... [[MakesSenseInContext while he's eating himself.]] Satan spends a good amount of time tormenting him, angry at the fact a devil is in love with him, but does appreciate him sometimes. In the very least they're HeterosexualLifePartners as Satan points out "Scumspawn, we are not a gay couple."