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* Some people interpret the ending of ''Film/MyBestFriendsWedding'' as this, though others will say this is absurd.

* Lee in ''Lily White'' by Susan Isaacs.

* Jacky and Higgins in ''[[Literature/BloodyJack The Wake of the Lorelei Lee]]''.

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* On ''Series/TheGeorgeLopezShow'', this trope is zig zagged. Carmen has no trouble getting guys, but her parents don't approve of the guy she's with. So she dates all around good guy Noah. George and Benny later find out he's gay and Carmen's using him as a cover (and he's using her as TheBeard).

* ''Podcast/RandomAssault'': Homosexuality is not off limits.

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* A recurring gag at the expense of [[ButtMonkey Meg]] from WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy.
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Compare LastHetRomance, FallbackMarriagePact.

* Branwen's parents from ''SomethingPositive'' were like this. Her dad did have a boyfriend, but her mom just wanted a family without having to be "bugged for sex all the time".

* The classic VisualNovel [[{{Hentai}} H-Game]] ''True Love'' has your gay best friend confess his feelings for you if you don't manage to hook up with one of the girls.

* Terrence Cee from Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold's ''Literature/EthanOfAthos'' at least acknowledges the possibility when he voluntarily exiles himself to the titular [[NoWomansLand planet of men]].

* Jacky and Higgins in ''[[BloodyJack The Wake of the Lorelei Lee]]''.

* Terrence Cee from Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold's ''[[Literature/VorkosiganSaga Ethan of Athos]]'' at least acknowledges the possibility when he voluntarily exiles himself to the titular [[NoWomansLand planet of men]]

* ''[[TowerAndTheHive Talents]]'' series by Creator/AnneMcCaffrey:
** Laria. Sure, living on an alien planet and the dating pickins are slim, but is it really fair to tell a young, gorgeous girl that she'll have to settle for her gay pal and boink the local [[TheCasanova Casanova]] when she wants a shag?
** Inverted - the inevitable boinking happens anyway, and he [[SitchSexuality settles for straight]]. Or as [=McCaffrey=] rather oddly puts it, "turns" straight, impling NoBisexuals.

* The movie of ''AStreetcarNamedDesire'' implies very strongly that Blanche's former husband was a closeted homosexual. It was flat-out stated in the play.
* At the end of ''BendItLikeBeckham'', Jess's friend Tony tries to do this. He doesn't want to tell his parents he's gay, and she wants to go to university in California to take advantage of a football scholarship, so he surprises her by lying to their families that they want to get engaged, on the condition that before they get married Jess should go to university anywhere she wants. Jess chooses instead to tell her parents she wants to go play football.

* Terrence Cee from LoisMcMasterBujold's ''[[Literature/VorkosiganSaga Ethan of Athos]]'' at least acknowledges the possibility when he voluntarily exiles himself to the titular [[NoWomansLand planet of men]]

* A female friend of Tommy's suggests this in MarionZimmerBradley's ''The Catch Trap'' because she wants to concentrate on her career but would like to have a husband who won't interfere with her lifestyle. Tommy is still holding out hope that someday he can openly be with his true love, Mario.

* In the Showtime series ''{{United States of Tara}}'', Marshall gets a girlfriend since he's still trying to figure out his sexuality. When he realizes he has no attraction to her, he tries to break it off, and she tries to invoke this trope arguing that ignoring the whole sex issue, they get along quite well... It doesn't end well.
* On ''TheGeorgeLopezShow'', this trope is zig zagged. Carmen has no trouble getting guys, but her parents don't approve of the guy she's with. So she dates all around good guy Noah. George and Benny later find out he's gay and Carmen's using him as a cover (and he's using her as TheBeard).

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* Some [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-orientation_marriage mixed-orientation marriages.]]
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* At the end of ''{{Bend It Like Beckham}}'', Jess's friend Tony tries to do this. He doesn't want to tell his parents he's gay, and she wants to go to university in California to take advantage of a football scholarship, so he surprises her by lying to their families that they want to get engaged, on the condition that before they get married Jess should go to university anywhere she wants. Jess chooses instead to tell her parents she wants to go play football.

* ''Beginners'': Turns out Oliver's mother knew that Hal was gay all along and actually proposed to ''him'', thinking that she could [[CureYourGays fix him.]] It doesn't work.

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* Branwen's parents from ''SomethingPositive'' were like this. Her dad did have a boyfriend, but her mom just wanted a family without having to be "bugged for sex all the time."

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* The Website/CollegeHumor sketch ''[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6846855/gay-men-will-marry-your-girlfriends Gay Men Will Marry Your Girlfriends]]'' has an assortment of gay men cheerily listing [[AllTheGoodMenAreGay their advantages]] as husband material while explicitly threatening to {{Invoke|dTrope}} and {{Exploit|edTrope}} this trope if the straight male viewing audience refuses to support gay marriage. They go so far as to debunk the idea the marriage would be sexless

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* Some [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-orientation_marriage mixed-orientation marriages.]]

* In Franchise/HarryPotter fanfic ''Fanfic/IfThemsTheRules, [[OCStandIn Melania]] married [[DepravedHomosexual Arcturus Black]] for prestige and after they [[CureYourGays fixed him with potions.]] Melania is furious that Arcturus never tried to be heterosexual and that they never had sex except only to conceive their two children. Arcturus ends up poisoning her so he could be free to woo Harry.

* Laria in the ''[[TowerAndTheHive Talents]]'' series by {{Anne McCaffrey}}. Sure, you're living on an alien planet and the dating pickins are slim, but is it really fair to tell a young, gorgeous girl that she'll have to settle for her gay pal and boink the local TheCasanova when she wants a shag?
** Inverted in the latest book - the inevitable boinking happens anyway, and he [[SitchSexuality settles for straight]]. Or as [=McCaffrey=] rather oddly puts it, [[NoBisexuals "turns" straight]]. [[UnfortunateImplications Hmmm]]...

* In Franchise/HarryPotter fanfic ''Fanfic/IfThemsTheRules, [[OCStandIn Melania]] married [[DepravedHomosexual Arcturus Black]] for prestige and after they [[CureYourGays fixed him with potions.]] Melania is furious that Arcturus never tried to be heterosexual and that they never had sex except only to conceive their two children. [[spoiler: Arcturus ends up poisoning her so he could be free to woo Harry]]

* ''Beginners'': [[spoiler:Turns out Oliver's mother knew that Hal was gay all along and actually proposed to ''him'', thinking that she could [[CureYourGays fix him.]] It doesn't work.]]

* In Creator/MichaelChabon's novel ''Literature/TheAmazingAdventuresOfKavalierAndClay'', [[spoiler: After Joe Kavalier joins the Navy and is declared MIA, his fiancee Rosa Saks -- who is pregnant with his child -- winds up marrying his best friend/cousin Sam Clay, who had been dating a male radio actor but was traumatized into avoiding men after being the subject of a anti-gay raid by the FBI which culminated in him being raped by several agents. Subverted in the end when Joe comes back; Sam divorces her in part so that Joe and Rosa can be together.]]

* [[spoiler:Jacky and Higgins]] in ''[[BloodyJack The Wake of the Lorelei Lee]]''.

* An episode of ''{{Sex and the City}}'' had Carrie think about this option with her PetHomosexual, but decided she didn't want to do it when she found out she wouldn't get all his family's money.
* ''Series/WillAndGrace'' It's sort of the premise of the series. In the first season, she suspects that the reason she wasn't interested in dating because she was too close to and having to much fun with PlatonicLifePartner Will. The two decide to have a baby together, since both expect to be single for the rest of their lives, but Grace decides against it when she meets Leo.
** A particular HideYourGays reversal of sorts would be making Will, who was technically supposed to be StraightGay, also rather [[CampGay campy]] to keep the show on air, apparently.
*** Also, Karen and Jack are a more definitive example by the end of the series, since they lived together into their old age or something because neither could really hit it off with anyone (it was implied once in awhile that Jack mainly liked Will, and neither really ever got together).
* In the Showtime series "''{{United States of Tara}}''" Marshall gets a girlfriend since he's still trying to figure out his sexuality. When he realizes he has no attraction to her, he tries to break it off, and she tries to invoke this trope arguing that ignoring the whole sex issue, they get along quite well... It doesn't end well.

* Heavily implied to have happened to Private Helga and Lieutenant Gruber at the end of the ''Series/AlloAllo'' series..
* Raj from TheBigBangTheory felt increasingly lonely with all of his friends paired off (and especially with his [[HeterosexualLifePartners heterosexual life partner]] getting married) and ended up calling his parents in India to have them set him up with an ArrangedMarriage candidate. Their meeting goes well, she's pretty, and they enjoy each others company, and then it comes out that's she's a lesbian that wants to use him as her [[TheBeard beard]] (although in a twist she thought he was gay as well and it'd be a mutual thing). Poor Raj was so lonely he actually considered going through with it, but his friends intervene and buy him a puppy to help combat his loneliness.

** ColePorter and his wife, who had an abusive first marriage.

* At the end of ''[[Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar Magic's Promise]]'', Melenna offers this to Vanyel, since she loves him and it will make his parents happy. He tells her firmly that he's flattered, but it's not a good idea.

* ''{{Will and Grace}}'' It's sort of the premise of the series.

* In Franchise/HarryPotter fanfic ''Fanfic/IfThemsTheRules, [[OCStandIn Melania]] married [[DepravedHomosexual Arcturus Black]]

* At the end of ''[[HeraldsOfValdemar Magic's Promise]]'', Melenna offers this to Vanyel, since she loves him and it will make his parents happy. He tells her firmly that he's flattered, but it's not a good idea.

Are you a straight girl? Have you not had luck with men of late? Remember your old gay pal Will that you're a FagHag for? Why don't you settle down with/marry him? Because really, he's the love of your life, the best friend you'll ever have, he'll never leave you. So what if he doesn't ever want to boink you? This is the best you can ever do in life, really!

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* ''{{Will and Grace}}'' It's sort of the premise of the series.

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* The Website/CollegeHumor sketch ''[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6846855/gay-men-will-marry-your-girlfriends Gay Men Will Marry Your Girlfriends]]'' has an assortment of gay men cheerily listing their advantages as husband material while explicitly threatening to {{Invoke|dTrope}} and {{Exploit|edTrope}} this trope if the straight male viewing audience refuses to support gay marriage. They go so far as to debunk the idea the marriage would be sexless

* Laria in the ''[[TowerAndTheHive Talents]]'' series by {{Anne McCaffrey}}. Sure, you're living on an alien planet and the dating pickins are slim, but is it really fair to tell a young, gorgeous girl that she'll have to settle for her gay pal and boink the local {{Casanova}} when she wants a shag?