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A Camp Straight is a man who exhibits some or all of the common characteristics of a CampGay but is clearly heterosexual. Basically, he's so much like a woman that he can't help but be attracted to them - it makes sense when you think about it. He either has a girlfriend or only shows sexual attraction towards women despite his flamboyance.

A Camp Straight is a man who exhibits some or all of the common characteristics of a CampGay but is clearly heterosexual. Basically, he's so much like a woman that he can't help but be attracted to them. He either has a girlfriend or only shows sexual attraction towards women despite his flamboyance.

Up until the 1970s or so (this is when people began to get more comfortable with openly gay characters as a result of social change), in many segments of society and media, men were assumed to be straight unless outed, no matter how feminine they acted. Thus, many films from the era of UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode contain Camp Straight characters who are ''sometimes'' proven straight by a LastMinuteHookup.

* Donut of ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' '''might''' be this. While he wears pink armor, spouts innuendo nigh-constantly, and likes to talk about fashion and interior decorating, in one of the alternate endings to episode 100, it's revealed he later marries an exotic dancer named Tiffany and they have twelve children together. While those endings aren't even remotely canonical, if they're canonical in spirit, then it would make Donut firmly Camp Straight, as opposed to Camp... We-Don't-Really-Know-and-Everyone's-Afraid-to-Ask.

* ''Series/FlandersCompany'' introduced in season 4 an AlternateUniverse where the {{Villain Protagonist}}s are heroes. Alternate version of [[CombatSadomasochist Hippolyte]] is whiny, dress in white, acts effeminate, and pretty much looks like a CampGay in every way... except he is in a relationship with his universe's Carla.

[[caption-width-right:350:He can't help it. He's a Barbie doll.]]

* ''Series/ThreesCompany'' has Jack Tripper, who is pretending to be gay so The Ropers wouldn't kick him out for living with two women.

* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': {{Lampshaded}} with the 1989 sketch "Lyle, the Effeminate Heterosexual." Lyle (Creator/DanaCarvey) is so Camp Straight that everyone, including his own kids and even his wife, thinks that he's gay.

* Pegasus from ''Anime/YuGiOh'' [[spoiler:In fact, his being straight is part of his whole motivation -- he's trying to revive his dead lover, Cyndia/Cecellia.]] Yet he still manages to be the most fabulous character on the show.

* Queen "The Plague" from ''Manga/OnePiece'' wears lipstick, acts dramatic and flamboyant, likes to sing and dance, and is named... Queen, but his EstablishingCharacterMoment is him ogling an oiran's photograph and suggesting a visit to the RedLightDistrict after work. (Also, the name "Queen" is because he's part of a group with [[PlayingCardMotifs "Jack" and "King"]].)

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'':

** The Monarch. Despite his flamboyance and FoeRomanceSubtext with Rusty Venture (down to having sex with a robot with Venture's face), he's clearly fully dedicated to Dr. Girlfriend/ Mrs. The Monarch. Monarch in turn witnesses the trope first hand when he spots a member of Music/DepecheMode showing up at a party with a girl and refuses to believe his eyes.
** Pete White is often accused of being gay, both by his best friend Billy and by Shore Leave, but he has shown on a few occasions to prefer ladies.

* In ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'', ComicBook/{{Robin}} is this. He has many effeminate mannerisms, but he also claims to have slept with [[Literature/SherlockHolmes Irene Adler]].

* ''WebVideo/OutWithDad'': Owen comes off as this a bit from the way he talks.

* Just like his ''Toy Story'' equivalent, Ken of Creator/SamAndMickey is a sensitive, fragile, dolls and fashion-obsessed example of this trope who still loves his emotionally abusive and self-destructive Barbie. It's even implied that he's had a crush on Creator/ZacEfron.
* Richard Sapogov, the charismatic Channel Nine host from ''WebOriginal/WithinLapenko''. He has a feminine hairstyle, he loves clothes and fashion, but his only love interest is his female colleague, Tatiana Vosmiglazova.

* Mr. Humphries of ''Series/AreYouBeingServed'' seems to be a typical CampGay character... but as the series progresses, it seems that he's attracted to women... predominantly. WordOfGod from the (CampGay in RealLife) actor who played him supports this.

A Camp Straight is a man who exhibits some or all of the common characteristics of a CampGay but is clearly heterosexual. It seems that he's so much like a woman that he can't help but be attracted to them. He either has a girlfriend or only shows sexual attraction towards women despite his flamboyance.

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A Camp Straight is a man who exhibits some or all of the common characteristics of a CampGay but is clearly heterosexual. I guess you could say he's so much like a woman that he can't help but be attracted to them. He either has a girlfriend or only shows sexual attraction towards women despite his flamboyance.

A Camp Straight is a man who exhibits some or all of the common characteristics of a CampGay but is clearly heterosexual -- in other words, he's so much like a woman that he can't help but be attracted to them. He either has a girlfriend or only shows sexual attraction towards women despite his flamboyance.

* In ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'', Kyle Rayner once worked with a man named Andre Choi who acted textbook gay, but later was indignant when Kyle asked him about coming out, making it clear to Kyle that he's straight and complaining that people think he's gay just because he's thin, dresses well, wears earrings and is an art director. This was probably a retcon on the part of the writer, as in his first appearance, during Kyle's job interview, he mentioned Kyle having a "nice butt" when he came into the bosses' office.

* In ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'', Kyle Rayner once worked with a man named Andre Choi who acted textbook gay, but later was indignant when Kyle asked him about coming out, asking "Why does everyone think I'm gay just because I'm thin and dress well?". This was probably a retcon on the part of the writer, as in his first appearance, during Kyle's job interview, he mentioned Kyle having a "nice butt" when he came into the bosses' office.

* In ''Franchise/GreenLantern'', Kyle Rayner once worked with a man who acted textbook gay, but later was indignant when Kyle asked him about coming out, asking "Why does everyone think I'm gay just because I'm thin and dress well?". This was probably a retcon on the part of the writer, as in his first appearance, during Kyle's job interview, he mentioned Kyle having a "nice butt" when he came into the bosses' office.

* All the Kens in {{Film/Barbie2023}} are very flamboyant and have a more special fashion sense (as is also noted by some gays on Barbie's and Ken's trip to the real world early in the movie). On the same time, it's very clear that they are romantically interested in the Barbies. {{Justified|Trope}}, as they live in a parallel world designed around the Barbies and to catch on with the imagination of little girls, trying to appeal to them.

The DistaffCounterpart is very rare: there are few female characters in Western fiction (although rather more women in real life) who [[ButchLesbian look and act butch]] while actually being heterosexual, although {{Bifauxnen}} (the closest equivalent in Japanese media) may be of any orientation and it is not uncommon for them to be heterosexual.

* Jonah, Frederica's best friend in [=MaryJanice=] Davidson's ''Fred the Mermaid'' trilogy is obsessed with hair care (justified as he's a chemist who works for a hair products company), interior decoration, has the typical over the top speech patterns and hyper mannerisms of a CampGay and plans his own wedding, which is to a woman.

* Takuto from ''Anime/StarDriver''. He's officially the ''[[{{Bishounen}} Galactic Pretty Boy]], for crying out loud''!