History Main / ButNotTooGay

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXVI'' features multiple actual sex scenes involving straight couples, showing just about everything but the women's nipples and the genitals. The gay couple kisses once, briefly, while fully clothed. (The game still got [[BannedInChina banned in Saudi Arabia]], likely for refusing to cut that scene.)

* Creator/VH1's basketball soap ''Hit The Floor'' both averted this and played it straight with the gay couple introduced in the second season, Jude and Zero. Show creator James [=LaRosa=] (a gay man himself,) [[http://www.thebacklot.com/hit-the-floor-interview-brent-antonello-james-larosa/08/2014/ citing frustrations]] from previous examples of this trope, such as Matt on ''Melrose Place,'' took it as a point of pride that the gay sex scene in one episode was on par with the heterosexual sex scene earlier in the episode in terms of how steamy it was. However, almost immediately after that first scene, the characters in question immediately started enduring relationship drama that left them not even so much as hugging each other for the rest of the season (also not helping things was the fact that one of the characters was a still-closeted pro athlete, leading to a scene after a championship game where everybody was kissing their significant others, and all they could do was stare at each other across the room.)

Of course, this is a common source of UnfortunateImplications. ValuesDissonance plays heavily into this trope regarding acceptance of homosexuality, though, and it varies from country to country, from decade to decade, even within countries and communities. It is all too easy to look at the prevalence of this trope and come to the conclusion that homosexual couples are fine if they're on TV...as long as they don't show any sexuality. As the tolerance toward homosexuality grows, this trope is fading little by little, though old habits can die hard. This Trope may also occur due to heterosexual actors feeling uncomfortable going too far with someone of their own gender. In historical shows set in time periods where it would have been unsafe for gay and bi characters to be out, this trope is probably due to DeliberateValuesDissonance and is arguably [[JustifiedTrope justified]].

* ''Literature/CanYouSpareAQuarter'': Jamie and Jason are stated to be more than just friends, and the epilogue implies they are a couple after they grow up.

* Albus Dumbledore of the ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' franchise was confirmed as homosexual via WordOfGay but never portrayed as such in the books and films. The third movie of the prequel series, ''Film/FantasticBeastsTheSecretsOfDumbledore'' finally confirms the past relationship between Dumbledore and Grindelwald onscreen after it was only hinted at in the previous movies. Other than the heterosexual relationships in the series, there is never seen any physical interaction between them.

* One Website/TikTok video mocks the concept and how it's used in 2010s American banking commercials. The spoof shows various heterosexual couples who have various onscreen moments of physical intimacy...and one gay couple, who is only allowed to stand next to each other and smile at the camera. By the end of the commercial, the couple is royally pissed at the narrator for downplaying their relationship and forces them to acknowledge the couple once, and the narrator reluctantly obliges in a backhanded way (by finally saying they also cater...to "[[SymbolSwearing f**gots]]").

* Steve from ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'' is the only Warehouse agent in the show not to have had a partner or potential partner onscreen. His ex-boyfriend eventually does show up for one episode and they work through some of their issues, leading to a very touching...hug. And some canoodling implied only through dialogue.

* In one episode of ''Series/{{Castle}}'', it turns out that the (male) victim was bisexual and had a boyfriend. After the initial reveal, the boyfriend is then referred to as the victim's "friend" for the rest of the episode.