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| 14 | ->''"When I grew up, being gay, being a sissy or anything like that was verboten. I disliked myself intensely and feared this part of myself intensely and had to hide it and became "Perfect Richard, All-American Boy" as a place to hide."'' |
| 15 | -->-- '''Creator/RichardChamberlain''' |
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| 17 | AKA Haggard's Law[[note]]Named by [=RationalWiki=] after Rev. Ted Haggard, a fundamentalist Christian pastor who was vocally against gay marriage in his sermons, yet was caught fornicating with male prostitutes[[/note]], or the Law of Inverse Homosexuality: ''The more [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial vocally opposed]] a person is to homosexuality, the more likely they are [[YouAreWhatYouHate to be gay themself and closeted about it]].'' |
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| 19 | He's the strongest, toughest, manliest man on the sports team. He might hate gays and be vocal, or even violent about it. He will remind everybody that [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday he is completely, 100% straight]]. That is, during the daytime. When night falls, you can find him WhereEverybodyKnowsYourFlame with the {{Club Kid}}s and {{Gym Bunn|y}}ies. He might be browsing Grindr with a headless torso pic. He's the self-loathing gay guy who hides behind a macho homophobic façade. |
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| 21 | If FridgeLogic is applied, this trope can become a MortonsFork. ''Anyone'' who is homophobic might be suspected of being a secretly self-hating gay person. On the other hand, if you go in the opposite direction and ''defend'' gays, you're ''[[SarcasmMode obviously]]'' speaking up on behalf of your people, which means you're gay anyway! (Then again, people who would try to catch you out this way are probably homophobes, and thus potentially gay themselves, so in that sense it sort of evens out. This is a prime example of a [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Kafkatrap Kafkatrap]], where any denial of something is used as proof that you're guilty.) |
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| 23 | This is one of the most common variants of YouAreWhatYouHate. It's also a subtrope of BigotWithACrush, BoomerangBigot, InternalizedCategorism, PsychologicalProjection, and SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny. See also {{Gayngst}} if the character is particularly self-tormented about it and GayConservative if they have politically conservative (American-style) views as well. Not to be confused with StraightGay, who is out of the closet but just non-flamboyant, or GymBunny or ManlyGay, also out of the closet and macho all the same. |
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| 25 | Subtrope of ClosetGay. Polar opposite of GayBravado -- acting gay to affirm your heterosexuality -- unless it's a [[DoubleSubversion double bluff]], of course. Sometimes overlaps with {{Gayngster}} and with TransparentCloset -- just because the armor's there doesn't mean that people can't see through it. May result in IrrationalHatred of gays, or {{tsundere}} behavior toward the object of such a character's same-sex affection. |
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| 27 | This isn't ForcedOutOfTheCloset, though this character may end up being a target of that. Remember that the character's homosexuality has to be mentioned in-story. If it's never said but you have good reasons to believe that a character is an armoured closet gay, explain it at WildMassGuessing. |
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| 31 | !!Examples: |
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| 33 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 35 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 36 | * ''Manga/BlueFlag'': [[spoiler:Touma]] is very popular, friends with everyone, and generally a very nice guy. But when another character reveals that she knows that he is in love with Taichi, he pins her against a fence, horrified that she might have told Taichi about his feelings. |
| 37 | * Mizuho from ''Manga/DandelionAmongLilies'' is implied to have been this as a teenager. She would get very offended at the very ''idea'' of homosexuality and believed that same-gender romances never ended happily. Years later, she accepts the love confession of Ena and begins dating her. |
| 38 | * ''Anime/Danganronpa3TheEndOfHopesPeakHighSchool'': [[spoiler:Juzo Sakakura, the former Ultimate Boxer]] is absolutely in love with his [[spoiler:longtime friend, Munakata]] ever since they were in High School. He is a violent man who has dedicated his life to this UnrequitedLove, helping said crush in everything, including [[spoiler:supporting his relationship with their mutual friend Chisa]]. He is extremely afraid of anyone finding out about these feelings, which is actively and torturously used by the BigBad in order to blackmail him to [[spoiler:keep him quiet about Junko's involvement with the First Killing Game]]. |
| 39 | * In ''Manga/HappyYarouWedding'', Yuuhi suspects that his brother-in-law Kazuki's vitriol towards homosexuals is just a cover for his {{gayngst}}, especially after he meets [[ClosetKey Chiharu]]. He's right. |
| 40 | * {{Downplayed}} in ''Manga/IThinkOurSonIsGay''. Hiroki's closet usually [[TransparentCloset doesn't go that far]], but when Akiyoshi noted he finds it's [[InnocentlyInsensitive "kind of unpleasant to watch a same-sex kiss scene" on TV]], Hiroki's response is what one would expect from this trope, while still blushing heavily: |
| 41 | -->'''Hiroki:''' R-Right! It's impossible between two men! |
| 42 | * Downplayed in ''Manga/{{Moyashimon}}''. Sawaki notes that his childhood friend Kei always hated being called girly looking. He notes this ''after'' he finds Kei [[OldFriendNewGender dressed up in gothic lolita]]. Kei replies that she believes a person's mentality lies underneath things they hate. |
| 43 | * ''Manga/NamelessAsterism'': [[spoiler:Kotooka]] is a closeted lesbian who has feelings for her friend [[spoiler:Tsukasa and a complicated relationship with another friend Washio]]. While seeing nothing wrong with being gay in and of itself, she thinks that her feelings and the feelings of her friends [[spoiler:will break apart their friend group, as her feelings for a previous friend ruined a previous friendship of hers. In order to avoid this, she dates boys she isn't attracted to and tries to get her friends to date boys as well.]] |
| 44 | * ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': Shinji Ikari, particularly in the manga, is all but stated to be explicitly bisexual, even admitting to having fallen for Kaworu, even though he says he was afraid of liking a boy, he is very shy and insecure about that side of him and actively avoids recognizing this crush up until [[spoiler:he has to kill Kaworu]]. |
| 45 | * Tomoko Kuroki, the protagonist of ''Manga/NoMatterHowILookAtItItsYouGuysFaultImNotPopular'', generally disparages people she sees as "lesbos" and looks down on anime that trade on LesYay subtext. This is despite the fact that Tomoko herself has more scenes [[AmbiguouslyBi demonstrating sexual interest or romantic attraction in other women than every other character put together]]. Downplayed, however, in her disdain for "lesbos" has less to do with homophobia and more with her [[TallPoppySyndrome disdain for any relationships or attraction not involving herself]]. |
| 46 | * Kanou from ''Manga/OkaneGaNai'' would like to remind you that he thinks that homosexuals and [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} Okama]] are unnatural and he's totally straight! He just loves [[{{Bishonen}} Ayase]], dammit! |
| 47 | * In the [[BoysLove yaoi]] ''Manga/TheTyrantFallsInLove'', Souichi's homophobia is a major plot point in the series. He sleeps with his kohai, Morinaga, voluntarily kisses him, and even "moves in with him" [[HypocriticalHumor while vehemently denying that he is gay]]. |
| 48 | * Hitomi Shizuki from ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' mistakes Sayaka and Madoka's newfound telepathy for them being in a romantic relationship and runs away yelling "Girls can't love girls!" Subsequent entries in the franchise has shown that Hitomi has had a crush on girls herself, namely [[AloofDarkhairedGirl Homura]]. |
| 49 | * Sumika from ''Manga/YuriIsMyJob''. She doesn't hate lesbians, but she's the only character who explicitly identifies as a heterosexual. She [[HateAtFirstSight takes an almost instant dislike]] to her lesbian coworker Goeido, prompting her lesbian friend Saionji to ask if Sumika dislikes Goeido for being a lesbian, something Sumika denies. After Saionji and Goeido's relationship ends badly, Sumika becomes convinced that romantic love is "selfish" and has no place in their (all-female) workplace. As such, Sumika is initially convinced that her feelings for her kohai and friend Kanoko are platonic, and it isn't until she's asked [[ArmorPiercingQuestion several difficult questions]] that Sumika starts to realize that she's in love with Kanoko. |
| 50 | * ''Anime/YuriKumaArashi'' is this trope on crack; post-apocalypse shelter Tokyo claims they're at war against the uplifted cannibalistic Bears, but they're secretly a homophobic elitist cutthroat organization mostly consisting of lesbian couples who routinely vote on which public transgressor to throw under the bus as bait for bears, or even execute their comrades in the dark and point fingers at bears. At this point, the cast can only be classified under one of three categories: "definitely gay and publicly denying it", "possibly gay", or "mauled by bears". |
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| 53 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 54 | * ''ComicBook/AllNewXMen'' revealed that Iceman was gay, but was trying to suppress that so that he wouldn't face discrimination on another front in addition to the FantasticRacism he already got for being a mutant. |
| 55 | * ''ComicBook/TheBoys'': Although given that just about every supe is TheHedonist, it's more Armored Closet Bisexuality. |
| 56 | ** When Teenage Kix is blackmailed into firing one of the members, Shout Out is blackballed into quitting them supposedly for being gay (in fact, because the team leader was cheating on him with another teammate, and apparently Shout Out wasn't as good). |
| 57 | ** Soldier Boy has sex with the Homelander (the former is stupid enough to believe his worthiness to enter the Seven is being tested and found wanting, just like it is every year), but has to be reassured that "there's nothing gay about it". |
| 58 | * ''ComicBook/ExMachina'': [[spoiler:Bradbury talks a lot about banging girls, acts overly macho, and uses many gay slurs, but is actually a closeted gay man with a crush on Hundred. When Bradbury finally comes out to Hundred and gets rebuffed, Bradbury goes right back into denial, punching Hundred and calling him a faggot.]] |
| 59 | * Creator/FrankMiller has said that the characters "subliminate their sexual urge into crime-fighting" in [[ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder his comics]] and that Batman would in fact "be much healthier if he were gay". |
| 60 | * In the ''ComicBook/PostCrisis'' Franchise/DCUniverse, original Franchise/GreenLantern Alan Scott told his son, Obsidian, who's gay, that he couldn't completely accept being gay as normal. Yet after ''ComicBook/DoomsdayClock'' restored Alan's place in the timeline, the ''Green Lantern 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular'' implied that Alan, much like Obsidian and his own counterpart in ''ComicBook/Earth2'', is gay himself and his "friend" Jimmy was actually his boyfriend. [[spoiler:He officially came to his kids in ''ComicBook/DCInfiniteFrontier'' #0.]] |
| 61 | * The "Naked City" arc of ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'' has a belligerent cop named Paul Bridges who is an outspoken bigot towards black people, Asians, Muslims, and--more than anything--gays. He is only tangentially involved with the plot, but a short while later, the main character stumbles on him in a bondage club, getting it on with a couple black guys. After that, the arc ends with his black partner John Tool discovering him, leading to Paul bursting into tears and coming out to him. |
| 62 | -->'''Paul Bridges''': I think I'm gay.\ |
| 63 | '''John Tool''': Are you sure you're not just fucked up in the head? |
| 64 | * In ComicBook/ThePunisherPresentsBarracuda, we have President Luna, who ''really'' hates gays, but his wife says he can't get it up unless she dresses up as Che Guevara. He also has sex with Barracuda's very obviously crossdressing buddy Fifty while remaining oblivious to his gentials, and when the UnsettlingGenderReveal hits he jumps out of a helicopter at the realization. |
| 65 | * ''ComicBook/RickAndMortyOni'': One issue insinuates that Summer is this, although it's also possible that she's only lesbian in that alternate dimension and Summer Prime really is straight or at least bi. |
| 66 | * In ''ComicBook/TheTwelve'', the Phantom Reporter notes that Dynamic Man's extremely outspoken prejudice towards gays has gotten the other heroes talking. It turns out [[spoiler:he feels no sexual attraction to anyone or anything, as he's a robot with no genitalia. His creator was bigoted and wanted Dynamic Man to be above and opposed to the ills of society, which in his mind included homosexuality; this is also why Dynamic Man is virulently racist.]] |
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| 69 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 70 | * In the [[Blog/AskAPony Ask a Pony blog]] ''Blog/AskHoopsAndDumbbell'', Dumbbell cites this as the reason why he picked on [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Rainbow Dash]] when they were young. |
| 71 | --> '''Dumbbell''': When you're... scared, the tomboy with a rainbow on her head is an obvious target, you know? |
| 72 | * ''Fanfic/TheKingNobodyWanted'': Ser Alliser Thorne is suspicious of Jarman Buckwell and Jaremy Rykker's close relationship and scorns Aegon "Bloodborn" Frey as a likely "buggerer". He also shows no interest in women sexually, has a clear infatuation with Jon Connington, shows signs of a crush on Aerys, and describes an admiration for watching Jaime Lannister's skill with the sword that sounds distinctly sexual. |
| 73 | * The ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Bloom|Mogatrat}}'' depicts Victoria Chase as going to great lengths to hide her lesbianism from her friends. Her ex, Rachel Amber, uses this against her by [[ForcedOutOfTheCloset threatening to out her]] if she keeps bullying Max. When Victoria gets her own spin-off, ''In The Night We Trust'', this aspect of her character puts a strain on her budding romance with her friend, Taylor. |
| 74 | * In ''WebVideo/DeathNoteTheAbridgedSeriesKpts4tv'' Mr. Yagami is a [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero homophobic]] JerkAss [[CompensatingForSomething obsessed]] with [[ManlyMan "manliness"]] but at one point he dressed up as Franchise/SailorMoon... and he hits on [[NoYay Ryuk]]. |
| 75 | * In ''Manga/FromEroicaWithLove'', it is often speculated by writers (and Dorian) that Klaus protests too much. In one story, Dorian points this out to Klaus, whom responds his usual way. |
| 76 | * ''Fanfic/ThePokemonSquad'': [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius Jimmy Neutron]] is a StrawConservative who uses his racism and homophobia to cover up a disturbing crush on [[WesternAnimation/ChalkZone Rudy]]. |
| 77 | * ''Fanfic/RipHerToShreds'' is a ''Mean Girls'' prequel where Regina's homophobic behavior is a cover-up for her attraction towards Janis. |
| 78 | * ''Fanfic/SupperSmashBrosMishonhFromGod'': Sara is one of the most homophobic characters ever written in fiction, yet she also has a lot more romantic subtext with her female friends ([[FoeRomanceSubtext and enemies]]) than with her supposed boyfriends. [[spoiler:This ends up confirmed in "The Lauren Chapter", in which the titular character tells us that she and Sara are in a relationship.]] |
| 79 | * ''Fanfic/ThereWasOnceAnAvengerFromKrypton'': In this universe, [[WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug Chloe]] is gay but very uncomfortable with anyone knowing her true sexuality, and goes to great lengths to hide it, even throwing homophobic insults towards Juleka and Rose both to hide it and out of jealousy with how they can show their true selves without shame unlike her. |
| 80 | * In ''Fanfic/ThisIsAWildGameOfSurvival'' Kim Ji-min sleeps with her best friend Na-yeon, who is bisexual... and then proceeds to freak out because her parents are homophobic and her family has already cast aside one gay family member. To cover her tracks, she tells Na-yeon she's unlovable and that Ji-min doesn't want to be seen with 'someone like you'. |
| 81 | * In ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'', Pegasus is Armored Closet ''Straight''. He [[FauxYay deliberately acts]] as CampGay as possible and is willing to kill to protect his secret. Also, Marik Ishtar; despite the obvious signs of being gay (hanging around with an attractive man, reading yaoi, flaunting his abs, and stroking a phallic symbol), he frequently denies his homosexuality. |
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| 84 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 85 | * ''Film/TwoThirtySeven'': [[spoiler:Luke's crew pick on Sean for being gay, and when Luke mentions an interest in trying anal sex with his girlfriend to a friend of his, he denies there being anything gay about it. However, the porn Luke watches is gay porn, and he has at least a casual relationship with Sean. When Steven finds out about the latter, Luke punches him in the face and threatens him with further violence if he tells anyone.]] |
| 86 | * ''Film/AmericanBeauty'': [[spoiler: Colonel Frank Fitts]] is virulently homophobic. He is hostile towards his openly gay neighbors and throws out his son Ricky when he suspects he is in a relationship with another man. It turns out [[spoiler: Frank]] is a repressed gay man himself who reacts with violence when he is [[spoiler: rejected by Lester, his neighbor]]. |
| 87 | * Champ Kind, from ''[[Film/AnchormanTheLegendOfRonBurgundy Anchorman]]''. |
| 88 | ** He hits on women more aggressively than any of the other newsmen, but then basically professes his love for Ron [[InVinoVeritas when he gets drunk]], and at the end of the movie, the narrator tells us that he later got fired from a job as an NFL commentator for sexually harassing Terry Bradshaw. |
| 89 | ** In the [[Film/Anchorman2TheLegendContinues sequel]], when he meets up with Ron again, he constantly keeps on hugging him, to the point Ron gets a little weirded out. He also apparently believes that the census is a way for the U.N. to make children gay. |
| 90 | %% The spiritual sequel to the film, "Wake Up Ron Burgundy", invokes this trope far less subtly. |
| 91 | * ''Film/AssassinationNation'': Mayor Bartlett has been a vocally conservative anti-LGBT+ politician during his career. A hacker reveals photos of him cross-dressing while partying with male escorts. Bartlett kills himself at a town hall meeting after this. |
| 92 | * Max in ''Film/{{Bent}}'' is willing to do unspeakably depraved things to keep the Nazis from thinking he was gay. This is somewhat {{justified| Trope}} because you ''really'' don't want ''[[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany the Nazis]]'' to think you're gay. |
| 93 | * ''Film/BlueJean'': Siobhan, the student who mocked and bullied Lois over her lesbianism, kisses her later in the shower. When she's caught this way by Jean, Siobhan then says Lois assaulted her. |
| 94 | * ''Film/Bruno2009'' decides his homosexuality is preventing him from being famous, he first tries to consult an ex-gay ministry, then attends a swinging party. After running away from the party, he vows to be back, and be straight, and a few months later, he's organizing a cage fight event under the pseudonym [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday Straight Dave]], and holds a homophobic speech at the audience, before making out with his male assistant inside the ring. |
| 95 | * Bobby Kent from ''Film/{{Bully}}'' is a sexual sadist who can't find anyone who appreciates his homemade gay porn movies. Gay themes constantly follow Bobby's character; his repressed sexuality might be his defining character trait. |
| 96 | * ''Film/ButImACheerleader'': Mike, a staff member at the [[CureYourGays gay conversion]] camp True Directions, calls himself "ex-gay". But his [[LongingLook lingering stares]] at his boss's son indicate the "treatment" he's been through hasn't worked. |
| 97 | * ''Film/CarmenYLola'': On realizing that Lola finds her attractive, Carmen angrily calls her a dyke and says that lesbians disgust her. Her initial hostility quickly becomes curiosity though, and before long they're a couple. |
| 98 | %%* Zac Beaulieu from ''Film/{{CRAZY}}'', partly because the film is set from the 1960s to the 1980s and partly because his parents are a conservative father and a devout Catholic mother who believes he's a miracle child after consulting a Tupperware selling mystic. |
| 99 | * Annette's friend Greg in ''Film/CruelIntentions'' plays on the football team, makes anti-gay comments, and presents himself as a heterosexual jock type. He isn't, which is taken advantage of by Sebastian. |
| 100 | * ''[[Film/{{Cursed 2005}} Cursed]]'': JerkJock Bo, who is secretly crushing on Jimmy, making homophobic remarks toward him multiple times before Jimmy's calling him on this leads to Bo's coming out with him. |
| 101 | * ''Film/DatingAmber'': Eddie acts homophobic at times when he panics due to his {{gayngst}}. When seen kissing a young man at the gay club by someone he knows, his reaction was to push the guy away angrily. Later also once Amber comes out the stress causes him to lash out and call her a dyke, hurting her deeply. Eddie soon apologizes to her and accepts himself as being gay. |
| 102 | * Implied to be the case with the [[SubparSupremacist Neo-Nazi]] killed by Bill in ''Film/FallingDown''. Despite chasing a gay couple out of his store with homophobic slurs & violent threats, he dresses in ManlyGay fashion and graphically fantasizes about Bill suffering PrisonRape at the hands of a [[BlackIsBiggerInBed black man]]. |
| 103 | %%* ''Film/DoingTimeOnMapleDrive'': Matt, who is engaged to Allison, and pressured by his parents to be utterly perfect. |
| 104 | * ''Film/GiantLittleOnes'': It's implied that this might be Ballas' situation. He is only ever shown throughout the movie having some form of sex with Franky, although he constantly boasts about having sex with his girlfriend (a classic sign that one is overcompensating) and acts overtly hostile to Franky over their sexual encounter, attempting to paint Franky as the only "gay" one so he's shunned by most people. |
| 105 | %%* Aiden from ''Film/TheGuard'' complete with sham marriage. |
| 106 | %%* [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] in ''Film/{{Heathers}}'' -- the football players' fake suicide note makes them out to be lovers. |
| 107 | %%--> '''"I love my dead gay son!"''' |
| 108 | * Otto, Karl's agent in ''Film/{{Magicians}}'', strenuously denies that he has any kind of homosexual love for his client. His denials ring a bit false considering that he once snogged the guy completely out of the blue (and then had the nerve to challenge Karl's own understanding of his sexuality with accusation that "we just kissed..."), and then, whilst trying to pep Karl up before a gig, blurted out "I love you!" |
| 109 | * A strong case can be made for Johnny from ''Film/MyBeautifulLaundrette'', which even gets addressed when his Pakistani boyfriend Omar when [[WhatTheHellHero confronting him about his right-wing past]]. |
| 110 | -->'''Johnny''': Ain't nothing I can say to make it up to you. There's only things I can do to show you... That I am with you. |
| 111 | * Neil [=McCormick=] in ''Film/MysteriousSkin'' is picked up by an exceedingly dangerous man: possessed of strong homosexuality and physically violent hatred of gays, both sides of his character manifest simultaneously in bed. |
| 112 | %%* In the autobiography film ''The Naked Civil Servant'', Quentin Crisp and a group of his friends are at a club when a gang of drunks come in and harass them. Quentin himself is confronted with a huge guy who is leading the pack. Quentin whispers in his ear 'If I were you I'd bugger off back to Hoxton before they work out you're queer'. The lesson he learned from this experience is 'some roughs are queer'. |
| 113 | * ''Film/PromWars'' : Hamish constantly taunts Rupert about his AmbiguouslyBi status but makes the occasional homoerotic comment himself. During one celebratory scene, he excitedly grabs Joe and kisses him, only to shove Joe away and storm out of the room after realizing what he did. |
| 114 | %%* The former lead singer of fictional band Steel Dragon in the movie ''Film/{{Rockstar}}''. WordOfGod on the DVD commentary states that Bradley, the rival singer who replaces Chris in the cover band, is also deeply in the closet, the source of his antagonism towards Chris. |
| 115 | %%* Ray from ''Film/ScaryMovie'' is gay, but he hides it, rather poorly though. |
| 116 | * ''Film/ShallWeDance2004'': Chic is a burly flirt who insists that he is only joining the class to attract girls, complains about having to practice dancing with men, and brags about his romantic exploits, but he is seen romantically dancing with a man during the final scene. |
| 117 | %%* Rod Steiger in ''The Sergeant'', playing an Army Sergeant stationed in postwar Europe who uses his rank to bully his men, especially John Phillip Law. It becomes painfully obvious that he has a more-than-friendly interest in Law, who's unnerved by Steiger chaperoning him on dates with a Frenchwoman and forcing him to work late hours as Steiger's batman. It does not end well. |
| 118 | * [[spoiler:Rex]] from ''Film/SexDrive''. Loves his car more than anything and is violent (and violently homophobic) towards Ian, who he thinks is gay, but [[spoiler:he comes out at the end]], and his sexuality is implied to be the motivation for his {{Jerkass}} behavior. |
| 119 | * Bill Reynolds, the housemaster in ''Film/TeaAndSympathy'', is implied to have struggled with his sexuality before marrying his wife. This is likely why he treats the main character, Tom Lee, so harshly. (More overt in the play; the film, [[MediaNotes/TheHaysCode considering when it was made]], drastically tones it down.) |
| 120 | %%* ViolentGlaswegian Francis Begbie in ''Literature/{{Trainspotting}}'', [[http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-12174.html/ according to Robert Carlyle]]. |
| 121 | * ''Film/TropicThunder'' has a less extreme version of this with Alpa Chino, a famous rapper who's branching into acting. [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday His catchphrase as a rapper seems to be "I love the pussy" and he hawks a soda based on his music called "Booty Sweat."]] Toward the end of the film, as all the actors talk about their love lives, he's asked if he has anyone special that isn't just a sexual thing, and Chino replies that he's had a crush on someone he was too shy to ask out. When asked the girl's name he wistfully replies "Lance." When they naturally question it, he falls into a long, denial-filled rant about how he isn't gay and how much he "loves da pussy." [[spoiler: He's last seen in the movie hugging [[Creator/LanceBass Lance Bass]] at the Oscars.]] |
| 122 | -->'''Alpa Chino''': No, I always wanted to. I guess I just never had the courage to ask. It's complicated. |
| 123 | -->'''Kirk Lazarus''': Nah! It's simple as pie man: you plant your feet on the ground, you look her square in the eyes you say "Hey! baby, you and me's goin' on a date, that's the end of the story". What's her name? |
| 124 | -->'''Alpa Chino''': ...Lance |
| 125 | -->'''Kirk Lazarus''': You say “Listen here, Lance”... Lance? What the fuck did I just hear? Lance? |
| 126 | -->'''Kevin Sandusky''': Did you just say Lance? |
| 127 | -->'''Alpa Chino''': No! I said Nance. That's what I said, Nance. |
| 128 | -->'''Kevin Sandusky''': It sounded like Lance. |
| 129 | -->'''Alpa Chino''': Dammit, I'm Alpa Chino! 'I Love Tha Pussy', aight? Lay yo ass back down and look at the stars. |
| 130 | -->'''Kirk Lazarus''': When you wrote 'I Love Tha Pussy', was you thinking about danglin your dice on Lance's forehead? |
| 131 | -->'''Alpa Chino''': Aw hell no! What!? C’mon look- |
| 132 | -->'''Kirk Lazarus''': Everyone is gay once in awhile, this is Hollywood! |
| 133 | * The villain from the early gay rights film ''Film/Victim1961'' is strongly implied to be this. He's a blackmailer who wears leather and sunglasses, has nude male artwork and photographs of musclemen in his apartment, and seems to enjoy humiliating his victims a little ''too'' much. |
| 134 | %%* From a British movie, ''Film/VictorVictoria''. One of the guys (though not self-loathing) revealed that he was gay. The main character was shocked, pointing out that he always worked out, and was the captain of the football team. The gay man replied that the best way to hide that you're gay is to always work out, and be the captain of the football team. |
| 135 | [[/folder]] |
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| 137 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 138 | %%* In the Adrien English mysteries, by Josh Lanyon, Jake Riordan [[spoiler:(the main love interest)]] is this. |
| 139 | * ''Literature/TheAgeOfMadness'': Leo dan Brock's thoughts frequently linger on how handsome his gallant young friends are, particularly his closest confidant Jurand. When his thoughts get a little too passionate, however, he cuts himself off. It soon becomes clear that he's in love with Jurand and just can't admit it to himself. When he catches Jurand having sex with another man, he banishes them both as "perverts," but it's pretty clear that he's secretly jealous of Jurand's unfaithfulness. |
| 140 | * ''Literature/TheBlackMagicianTrilogy'': A strange case in that there's no macho posturing, and only a little gay-bashing. Dannyl -- a magician from a country that has very strong prejudices against homosexuality -- is so incredibly deep in the closet (due to the aforementioned prejudice and an incident as a teen) that he constantly uses his magic to suppress any and all attraction to men utterly subconsciously--he doesn't even know he's doing it till he exhausts himself magically and can't do it anymore. |
| 141 | * A double case in ''Literature/{{Camouflage}}''. The protagonist himself, who's bisexual and firmly not liking his homoromantic side, and [[spoiler:the main antagonist, who becomes a massive prick about it]]. Ultimately, [[spoiler: the latter's monstrous actions serve as a cautionary tale to Danilo, and he accepts himself and goes on to fight for LGBT rights.]] |
| 142 | %%* Titan from ''Literature/{{Corpies}}'' was one before the start of the story. He later says that he deeply regrets lying to himself and the world, and leaving the Hero scene when the truth came out. |
| 143 | * In ''Literature/FellowTravelers'' by Thomas Mallon, Hawkins Fuller is very much in the closet. He even bashes homosexuals at work. The book was set during [[RedScare the McCarthy era]] when being gay meant being blacklisted and possibly never working again. Fuller had no choice but to play the part. To a lesser extent, Timothy Laughlin fits the self-loathing part, and he was also in the closet for a long time because of necessity. |
| 144 | * In ''Literature/TheFiresStone'', Aaron is UsefulNotes/{{bisexual}}, but getting him to admit to his attraction to men, particularly Darvish, after the trauma his father's religion inflicted on him, takes just about the entire book. He has a lot of {{Gayngst}} involved and is repulsed by the idea of same-sex relationships. |
| 145 | * In ''Literature/TheHaremProtagonistWasTurnedIntoAGirlAndDoesntWantToChangeBack'' [[spoiler:Augusta is in deep denial about being bisexual partially due to wanting to have an heir to her very rich family estate]], she's the last love interest of protagonist Svetlana's girlfriends to come around to Svetlana's [[TransRelationshipTroubles transition]] and [[spoiler:only does when alien warrior Plynx reveals her species' tech can easily allow two women to have children together]]. |
| 146 | * Harry Black in Creator/HubertSelby's ''Literautre/LastExitToBrooklyn'' and in the film adaptation, where he's played by Creator/StephenLang. He affects a macho demeanor (though nobody takes his bluster seriously), is married to a woman whom he loathes and finds physically revolting, and has clandestine affairs with local drag queens while embezzling money from his union to wine and dine his homosexual lovers. |
| 147 | * In the first book of the ''Literature/LastHeraldMageTrilogy'', a young Vanyel Ashkevron is sent from the backwater where he grew up to the big city, where he [[DefrostingIceQueen defrosts]] meeting Tylendel, the love of his life. Knowing that his father will [[HeteronormativeCrusader be extremely displeased and ruin things for him if he finds out]], they keep a SecretRelationship and Vanyel plays up [[ObfuscatingStupidity his own snooty tendencies]], then contrives a violent hatred of Tylendel, going as far as physically attacking him in public. Tylendel treats this as a game and thinks it's great fun to play along. Unfortunately, this naturally has all of Tylendel's peers ''absolutely despising'' Vanyel and when all in one night Tylendel dies and Van is [[TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening empowered]] and [[TheChosenMany Chosen]], [[YouShouldHaveDiedInstead they wish Vanyel had been the one to die]]. |
| 148 | * OlderThanFeudalism: The Roman poet Martial (38-102 CE) wrote about a friend who despised effermate clothing: |
| 149 | -->He will ask why I suspect him to be a 'soft' man. |
| 150 | -->We go to the baths together. He never looks at anything above, |
| 151 | -->but examines the athletes with devouring eyes, |
| 152 | -->and looks at their dicks with constantly moving lips. |
| 153 | * ''Literature/MitchTobin'': Bruce in the fourth book hotly denies that he's gay despite having had sex with men and threatens anyone who he thinks will tell his mother. |
| 154 | * ''Literature/ModernFaerieTales'': In the original edition of ''Valiant'', Ruth responds to Jen's homophobic behavior by calling her a "closet case." |
| 155 | * In ''Literature/OutOfTheShadows'' by Sue Hines, Jodie is continually picked on by the AlphaBitch because of her [[PseudoRomanticFriendship extremely close friendship]] with Ro. She gets back at the Alpha Bitch later on in the book by suggesting that she's trying to cover up her own lesbian yearnings with her bullying. It's never confirmed if her accusation was right or not, but the Alpha Bitch ''does'' leave her alone after that. |
| 156 | * In the horror novella ''Literature/TheSchoolHouse'' by Simon Bestwick, the protagonist's friend committed suicide after being raped by two classmates who had mercilessly tormented him on suspicion of being gay (it's never revealed whether he really was.) Although it's possible this happened because they were in an all-male boarding school where there were no girls around, the protagonist seems to suspect that the bullies put up a front as tough-guy thugs because they were unsure about their own sexuality. |
| 157 | * ''Literature/TheSecretHistory'': When narrator Richard first meets Bunny, he thinks he's the gay kind of homophobic, but after getting to know him more he changes his mind. |
| 158 | -->''I’ve known men who run down homosexuality because they are uncomfortable with it, perhaps harbor inclinations in that area; and I’ve known men who run down homosexuality and mean it. At first I had placed Bunny in the first category. His glad-handing, varsity chumminess was totally alien and therefore suspect; then, too, he studied the classics, which are certainly harmless enough but which still provoke the raised eyebrow in some circles. [...] The more I listened to Bunny, however, the more apparent it became that there was no affected laughter, no anxiety to please.'' |
| 159 | * Deconstructed with James Toranaga of ''Literature/{{Touch 2017}}'', who gets very angry when his friend Casper notices his crush on another boy. Given that James is a recent rape victim still figuring out his sexuality, the outburst is fairly justified. |
| 160 | * ''Literature/TheTraitorGame'': |
| 161 | ** Michael suggests that Shitley, TheBully who likes to target gay or effeminate kids, is a case of this in order to anger him. It's left ambiguous whether he was correct or not. |
| 162 | ** Downplayed with [[spoiler:Francis]]. He isn't homophobic (going by fifteen-year-old boy standards) and his EstablishingCharacterMoment has him rescuing a boy who is being bullied and accused of being gay by Shitley, but he's definitely StraightGay, and it's implied that this is a front when he thinks he is outed by Michael and demands to know how he managed to figure out his secret. |
| 163 | * In ''Literature/TheWayYouAre'', the main character spends most of the novel in the closet. His armor is slowly chipped away as the story progresses. |
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| 165 | |
| 166 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 167 | * ''Series/Accused2023'': Jamie is attracted to men but firmly in the closet about it. He insults Robyn over being an openly gay drag queen, despite also sleeping with him. |
| 168 | %%* The AmbiguouslyGay Louis in ''Series/AlphaHouse'' is trying to become more macho, as he's a Republican Senator facing a primary challenge from a cowboy type. |
| 169 | %%* Along with almost every other gay trope, this was sometimes used by Tobias on ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment''. |
| 170 | * ''Series/BadEducation'': |
| 171 | ** Though he directs very little homophobia at the openly gay student Stephen, TheBully Frank Grayson often calls other students and even teachers gay and uses it as an excuse to bully them. In the season 2 Christmas Special, however, he turns out to have a crush on Stephen and kisses him in front of the whole school. Later he invites Stephen on a date to a football match while other students can hear him. He tries to hold on to his macho persona but Stephen tells him to drop it and none of the other students seem to care that he's gay anyway. They were made an OfficialCouple in the series finale when they went to prom together. Also, they won prom king and queen. |
| 172 | ** The fighting instructor in the "Self Defence" episode is rampantly homophobic, but also seems to enjoy [[GroinAttack grabbing Alfie's crotch]]. |
| 173 | * ''Series/TheBoys2019'': Ezekiel, it turns out, is a closeted gay man who has secret trysts with men while publicly touting his conservative Christian beliefs, saying homosexuality can be cured by prayer. Hughie initially plans to blackmail Ezekiel with a video on his phone, but he forgets to take it out during an impromptu baptism, so the phone is waterlogged. He improvises and claims that he personally had sex with Ezekiel. Given that most Supes have a ButForMeItWasTuesday mentality about regular people, Ezekiel believes him. |
| 174 | * ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': |
| 175 | ** Larry is a big brute bully who sexually harasses girls to cover up his gayness until he comes out in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E15Phases Phases]]". After he comes out, his attitude changes dramatically. |
| 176 | ** Four seasons after his last appearance, we learn this about Buffy's brief love interest Scott Hope in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E7ConversationsWithDeadPeople Conversations with Dead People]]". He told people that every girl he broke up with was a lesbian, "and then last year, [[SarcasmMode big surprise]], he comes out." This was likely an ActorAllusion gag, as the actor who played Scott went on to star on the American ''Series/{{Queer as Folk|US}}''. |
| 177 | * The Creator/StephenColbert character from ''Series/TheColbertReport'' is implied to be one of these, e.g. with a reference to a Keanu Reeves DVD he inexplicably finds in his player every Monday morning, while also being an anti-gay conservative commentator. In a bit of a CastingGag, he sometimes interacts in a "[[TransparentCloset we're totally not gay]]" way with a character played by Paul Dinello, who played Mr. Jellineck in the above-mentioned ''Strangers with Candy''. |
| 178 | * In the ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode "[[Recap/CommunityS5E11GIJeff GI Jeff]]" [[Franchise/GIJoe Cobra Commander]] is jokingly depicted as being secretly bisexual, having been Destro's lover. He spends a lot of the episode denying it even in the middle of battle, shouting that he'll get vengeance for his "[[BlatantLies totally platonic friend]]". |
| 179 | * In December 2011, ''Series/{{Conan}}'' referred to a news story in which a schoolteacher in Michigan struck the word "gay" from the popular Christmas carol "Deck the Halls." The sketch which followed depicted two men pitching a CD entitled ''Straight-Up Christmas,'' which included such carols as "Little Drummer Boy (To Whom I Am Not Sexually Attracted)," "Jingle Breasts" and "Do You Hear What I Hear? (Yes! Monster Trucks!)" They also pitch a bonus CD of music performed on power drills. After they believe the cameras have stopped filming, they start making out. |
| 180 | * ''Series/ControlZ'': Gerry is vocally homophobic, but it turns out he likes to watch gay porn. This naturally gets him called gay himself, though he insists that he's not. [[spoiler:Season 2 reveals that he's lying, even to himself; he really does like men.]] |
| 181 | %%* In the ''Series/{{Cracker}}'' serial "Best Boys", Stuart Grady joined the army, married, and had a child to try and cover the fact that he is gay. Then he meets Bill Nash (played by a very young Creator/JohnSimm)... |
| 182 | * The unsubs of ''Series/CriminalMinds'' episodes "In Heat" and "Broken" are both gay men who have been driven to be self-hating, primarily by their fathers. The unsub in "In Heat" kills open gay men to take over their lives in hopes of experiencing their confidence. The unsub in "Broken" attempts to seduce women to prove that he's been fixed; when he can't perform sexually, he kills the women in a rage. |
| 183 | * Riley of ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'': star track runner, football team captain, and quarterback, summertime lifeguard, insatiably attracted to men. Early on any insinuation of his sexuality led him to lash out violently, including clocking a gay lifeguard in the jaw. But anger management classes and his new boyfriend's coaxing have helped him to [[CharacterDevelopment not only calm down]] but even [[ComingOutStory come out publicly]]. |
| 184 | * Inverted in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' spoof "Recap/TheFiveishDoctorsReboot". Turns out Creator/JohnBarrowman is actually married to a woman and has children, a fact that Creator/PeterDavison, Creator/ColinBaker, and Creator/SylvesterMcCoy use to blackmail him into driving them from London to Cardiff. |
| 185 | * ''Series/{{Euphoria}}'': It's heavily implied that most of the reason why Nate is so fucked up is that he is suffering mental strain from repressing same-sex attraction, which explains his extreme heteronormative views, like fantasizing of attacking a man that attacked his woman just to protect her. His sudden attraction to Jules, a trans girl, brings all of them to the surface worse than ever. |
| 186 | * ''Series/FellowTravelers'': It's made clear Roy Cohn is a closeted gay man, who's also pushing an effort to fire LGBT+ people with federal jobs as {{blackmail}} threats by communist agents, and "deviants" unsuited for employment. Later on, Hawkins Fuller gets evidence that UsefulNotes/JosephMcCarthy himself, who'd started this push against LGBT+ employees, had paid for sex with a man. |
| 187 | * ''Series/AFrenchVillage'': Lucienne, after acting quite homophobic toward Marguerite, kisses and even has sex with her (though after she apologizes). In her case, she's probably bisexual, since her previous relationships were with men and there's no sign she didn't like them. |
| 188 | * ''Series/{{Glee}}'': |
| 189 | ** [[spoiler: Dave Karofsky (one of the jocks and [[YouAreWhatYouHate Kurt's main bully]])]] starts out as this. After [[spoiler: forcefully kissing Kurt, he denies that it ever happened and attacks Blaine, a guy whom he doesn't know who's only there to let him know he's not alone. He then switches to another school where he is so cruelly bullied by the boys there that he's DrivenToSuicide and only barely survives.]] |
| 190 | --->'''Blaine:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Well, he's not coming out any time soon.]] |
| 191 | ** Santana is a female example -- she 'fesses up to Brittany that the reason she [[AlphaBitch acts like such a bitch]] is because she is angry, and she is angry because she has feelings for Brittany that she can't handle. Some parts of the fandom then quickly decided that Santana's ExtremeOmnisexual behaviour is because she subconsciously has decided that it is easier being the school slut rather than the school dyke. |
| 192 | ---> '''Santana:''' I'm a closet lesbian and a judgmental bitch, which means that I have ''excellent'' {{Gaydar}}. |
| 193 | * In the Dutch soap series ''Series/GoedeTijdenSlechteTijden'', there was a storyline where a man from a Muslim immigrant background made many disparaging remarks towards homosexuals and was determined to marry a Muslim woman to prove himself to be a "real man". This arrangement falls apart on the wedding day due to a variety of factors and causes him to come out of the closet. |
| 194 | %%* JerkJock Max on ''Series/TheHardTimesOfRJBerger'', although this was not revealed until the next to last episode of the series. |
| 195 | * Brendan of ''Series/{{Hollyoaks}}'' genuinely is homophobic—it's not a façade. He is also gay, and quite jealous and possessive with his sometimes-boyfriend Ste....who he also abuses as a result of said homophobia. It's...twisted. |
| 196 | * ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'': |
| 197 | ** One episode centered around a conservative Congressman who went to the police claiming that he had been kidnapped. Pembleton is assigned to investigate, and he quickly discovers that the "kidnapper" was actually the Congressman's boyfriend; the Congressman had broken his arm in a fight and tried to frame him for kidnapping out of fear he'd expose their relationship as revenge. |
| 198 | ** Bayliss starts out as a HeteronormativeCrusader uncomfortable with homosexuality, but in the sixth season he comes out as bisexual and starts sleeping with men. |
| 199 | * Ted Altman of ''Series/{{Intelligence 2006}}'' is implied to be one. In one episode, he is seen checking out another man at the bar, then freaks out when the guy notices him and starts checking him out back. In a later episode, he appears to be cruising a group of male prostitutes before being scared off by a patrol car. |
| 200 | * ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'': Mac begins the series as a ManChild who is obsessed with heavily muscled action heroes. The homoerotic undertones of his obsession get turned into a RunningGag that he is secretly gay but unable to admit it because of his staunch Catholicism. Over the seasons, [[NoBisexuals he slowly loses all interest in women]], and the rest of the gang become increasingly vocal about how he's obviously gay. In the 12th season, Mac finally comes out of the closet to win a dispute over a lottery scratcher. |
| 201 | -->'''Mac:''' Well, I'm gay.\ |
| 202 | '''Everyone Else:''' Yeah, no shit. |
| 203 | * On ''[[Series/TheJerrySpringerShow Jerry Springer]]'' and ''Series/{{Maury}}'', a common show topic is the manly man who also enjoys dating/sleeping with men (or the occasional drag queen) and claims to the end that he is 1000% heterosexual, and is not even bisexual, or even bi-curious. |
| 204 | * A ''Series/TheKidsInTheHall'' sketch has Scott Thompson playing a macho actor who constantly denies that he's gay, even when he's seen in bed with a man. The sketch ends with him dead and in an open-casket funeral, with two women wondering how he died. One of them says it was AIDS, but his corpse keeps muttering "Cancer." (This is HarsherInHindsight as Scott - who is gay in RealLife - was successfully treated for cancer in 2009.) |
| 205 | * Kaldrick King on ''Series/TheLAComplex''. He's a tough, violent rapper with a criminal record who's spent time in jail. He also falls in love with the slightly less armoured Tariq and starts to let his guard down a little. True to the trope, though, when the two are caught kissing, Kaldrick beats the crap out of Tariq to save face, even though Kal still claims to love Tariq afterwards. |
| 206 | %%* this is pulled out a few times on the various ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'' incarnations, either played straight or subverted depending on the episode. |
| 207 | * ''Series/LawAndOrderSVU'': In "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS5E20Lowdown Lowdown]]" closeted gay Bronx D.A. Jeff York is found murdered in his car. They exhaust the list of their suspects until they land on his black male coworker. Fin then explains the phenomenon of being on the "down-low" in the African-American community. They investigate the coworker's poker group, and sure enough, they are all "on the down-low" and have sex with each other when they are supposedly playing poker. One of the friends, a former football player, actually refuses to testify after revealing this because he does not want to tarnish his image, while vehemently denying that he's gay [[InternalizedCategorism in a homophobic manner]]. |
| 208 | * In ''Series/LoveAlarm'', a male high school student beats up another one for ringing his [[FictionalSocialNetwork Love Alarm]], but he immediately stops and runs away when Hye-yeong comes in his defense. The truth is that he likes men himself, and the reason he runs away from Hye-yeong is that he has a crush on him. |
| 209 | * ''Series/LovecraftCountry'': Montrose was quite in denial about gay as a teen, telling Thomas (who was also gay) they couldn't stay friends because he "wasn't like that" (using an anti-gay slur). |
| 210 | * ''Series/TheLWord'': |
| 211 | ** Burr Connor is a famous actor who's shown making homophobic remarks toward another actor who's a closeted gay man in the past and then Jenny, an open lesbian. It soon turns out that he's a closeted gay man himself, and regrets doing this. |
| 212 | ** Alice and Tasha meet an NBA star at a closet party. A few days later, said player makes homophobic comments about a fellow player, and Alice outs him in public. |
| 213 | * ''Series/MadMen'': Sal's entire LatinLover, ladies man persona is put on to cover up the fact that he's gay. When approached by a client who can recognize him for who he is because he too is a ClosetGay, Sal shuts down the entire proposition saying he simply can't. |
| 214 | * ''Series/MrShow'' plays this for laughs with Wyckyd Sceptre, a brainless hair metal band that becomes infamous overnight for a viral tape of one of their parties... which features the guys giving each other copious amounts of oral and anal sex. They not only reject the idea that it's gay, and mockingly call one of the record execs a "faggot" when he tries to commiserate with them as a gay man, but seem to have no ''concept'' of how this could possibly be construed as such when they do it ("dude, stop sayin' that, it was just a party!"). [[spoiler:They later get marketed for flamboyantly gay audiences by the label, become sponsored by Menuco Butt Plugs, and perform a song -- "Gettin' the Shaft" -- that suggests their catalogue is already full of innuendo.]] |
| 215 | -->'''Record Exec #1:''' ...Guys, I'm going to take your tape out, okay?\ |
| 216 | ''[He shuffles the tape behind his back]''\ |
| 217 | '''Record Exec #1:''' Now, I want you to do me a favor, and watch this OTHER tape of gay men having sex; take a look.\ |
| 218 | ''[He puts it back into the VCR, and the band watches themselves going down on each other in the hot tub]''\ |
| 219 | '''Lead Singer:''' Aw, man...\ |
| 220 | '''Guitarist:''' Aw, that's --\ |
| 221 | '''Lead Singer:''' This shit is fuckin' SICK, man!\ |
| 222 | '''Record Exec #1:''' ''[furious]'' ...THAT IS ''YOU!!''\ |
| 223 | '''Lead Singer:''' AWRIGHT!\ |
| 224 | ''[They all high-five and congratulate each other]'' |
| 225 | %%* ''Series/NoahsArc'': Wade starts out as this. |
| 226 | * ''Series/OctoberFaction'': Phillip, who bawled out Geoff for being a "fag" when they first met, is himself in the closet. |
| 227 | * On ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'', Marshall Langman, who along with his wife Marcia heads the [[MoralGuardians Society For Family Stability Foundation]], is heavily implied to be this. In "Sex Education" when they try to shut down Leslie's sex-ed classes for the elderly, they go on TV and talk about the importance of abstinence-only education. |
| 228 | -->'''Marshall''': We all have some crazy urges from time to time, but you just can't act on them. You have to bury them, way down deep inside. You have to say, "Get out of here you crazy urges, you are not welcome in this brain of mine." |
| 229 | * In ''Series/{{Playmakers}}'', Thad Guerwitcz even beats up his own boyfriend in the presence of his teammates and proposes marriage to a girl he just met just to avoid being ostracized by his team. |
| 230 | * Paige in ''Series/PrettyLittleLiars''. She spends her entire introduction episode making jabs at Emily for being gay and physically threatening her -- and then kisses Emily two episodes later and becomes Emily's on-again/off-again girlfriend. |
| 231 | * The ''Series/QuantumLeap'' episode "Running for Honor" featured Sam as an AmbiguouslyGay cadet at a military academy with a no-gays policy trying to protect an openly gay ex-cadet from the violent intentions of a campus hate group. Sam calls out the leader of the group and accuses his homophobia of being a front to conceal his own homosexuality. The group leader never admits to being gay, but he backs down from the raid he was planning, and later leaves school, claiming he doesn't belong there. |
| 232 | * In ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'', Cheryl Blossom has been this since middle school, after her mother caught her sharing a bed with her best friend and romantic interest, Heather, and [[AbusiveParents verbally abused Cheryl with homophobic attacks.]] This caused Cheryl to feel ashamed of her sexuality and actively repressing it, eventually leading her to express it in a very toxic way such as threatening Josie and mocking Toni for her bisexuality. Though with Toni's emotional support and reassurances, Cheryl is able to accept her sexuality and openly dates Toni. |
| 233 | * In ''Series/{{Queer as Folk|US}}'' Drew Boyd is a macho football player who was engaged. Then he hooked up with Emmett and insists on staying in the closet until near the end of the series. |
| 234 | %%* On ''Series/{{Scandal}}'', the client in the pilot episode is a decorated war hero and a prominent conservative activist so deep in the closet that he'd rather be arrested for a murder he didn't commit than allow his lover to provide an alibi for him. |
| 235 | * Parodied in an episode of ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', with The Todd. Carla and Elliot suspect that Todd is gay (since he hasn't actually slept with any woman he supposedly has) and that his womanizing personality is merely an act he puts on to avoid suspicion. They confront him and get him to tearfully come out of the closet... but then he proceeds to act exactly the same as always, only towards men instead. Then he reveals to the two of them that [[FauxYay he was only pretending to be gay]] because "[[GuyOnGuyIsHot chicks dig gay dudes]]". Then he walks away and starts hitting on both men and women equally. |
| 236 | -->'''[[DeadpanSnarker Janitor]]:''' What ''are'' you?\ |
| 237 | '''[[ThirdPersonPerson The Todd]]:''' ...I'm the Todd. |
| 238 | * ''Series/SexEducation'': [[spoiler:Adam Groff]] is revealed to be an Armoured Closet Bisexual when he kisses Eric Effiong. |
| 239 | * During Season 2 of ''Series/ShamelessUS,'' Ian and his boyfriend Mickey Milkovich are caught having sex by Frank of all people. Micky was gonna kill him out of fear he'd tell everyone, but after seeing Frank being wasted, he instead punches out a cop to violate his parole. He'd rather do more time in jail than come out of the closet. |
| 240 | * ''Series/{{Skins}}'': |
| 241 | ** In the second season, Maxxie is verbally taunted by a macho, apparently gay-hating thug who turns out to have a serious crush on him. |
| 242 | ** Naomi was this for much of Series 3, assuring everyone how very straight she was in between make-out sessions with Emily. [[TransparentCloset It didn't really work]] -- well, except for Cook, who was probably too horny to care. |
| 243 | ** Katie Fitch was an aversion; her constant harping on Naomi for being a "lezzer bitch" who "is coming to gay us up" made it seem like she was being set up to be this trope, but it turns out she's straight. But her homophobia does cause a world of pain for her twin sister, Emily, who actually ''is'' gay and crushing on Naomi. Emily was in an armoured closet with Katie (until the end of the third series) but didn't seem to have as much trouble opening up to others, especially as it became increasingly apparent that Naomi [[TransparentCloset was lying about being straight]]. |
| 244 | %%** Cook often appears to be an Armoured Closet DepravedBisexual, or at least [[IfItsYouItsOkay gay for Freddie]]. |
| 245 | %%** Mini came across as this in the fifth series, with a history of obvious unrequited crushes on her female friends - Franky during the show's run and, in the prequel novel, Liv. However, this was [[AbortedArc completely abandoned]] in the sixth series, where she was suddenly only into boys. |
| 246 | * Chuck Noblet from ''Series/StrangersWithCandy'', played by Creator/StephenColbert, is an English teacher / history teacher, assistant to the principal, gun enthusiast, stepmom-attracting, gay-bashing, emotionally unstable badass who has armored his closet so thickly that he is in an unhappy marriage with ''children'' and willing to kill his boyfriend when he threatens to out them both in front of the whole school. Don't worry though. In spite of Noblet's fear of being found out and acting like Mr. Jellineck means nothing to him in public, they both [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther really do love each other]]. This is demonstrated most prominently when Noblet almost came out to save Jellineck's life after a horrible accident with a "ray of hope" after his surgery, but when he proved to be OK, he quickly stopped the explanation of their 'friendship'. |
| 247 | * {{Downplayed|Trope}} with Colin Hughes from ''Series/TedLasso''. Professional soccer is not the most gay-friendly environment, so Colin pretends to be straight around his teammates and reluctantly joins in on some mildly homophobic locker room banter in order to fit in. However, he's perfectly comfortable with his sexuality in his private life. |
| 248 | * In ''Series/{{Teenage Bounty Hunters|2020}}'', [[spoiler:April, the leader of the "straight-straight" alliance at Willingham Academy, is secretly gay.]] |
| 249 | ** [[spoiler:This is mostly a subversion as April doesn't have any self-loathing or denial that usually accompanies this trope and isn't shown to be hostile. She's just very afraid of coming out in a conservative Christian environment and to her homophobic parents, Sterling nearly convinces her to come out, but then her father returns from prison driving her back into the closet before she can come out.]] |
| 250 | * Officer Paul Woodrugh from season 2 of ''Series/TrueDetective'' is constantly battling with himself over his sexuality, and very clearly wants the world, as well as himself, to believe that he's straight. He needs to take a Viagra to have sex with his girlfriend and is ecstatic when she reveals that she's pregnant and expresses his desire to marry her, though it's evidently not for the right reason. When a man that he had had a homosexual encounter with in the military tries to bring it up to him, he reacts violently, but later falls back into bed with him while drunk. Also early on, he claimed that he was tempted to punch a "fag" who flirted with him. |
| 251 | * ''Series/TheWilds'': Shelby. It's mostly a result of her father's religious views. She gets vocally uncomfortable when Toni talks about her sex life, stating homosexuality is sinful, and lashed out at her best friend after being caught kissing her. Later she kisses Toni before they have sex offscreen. |
| 252 | [[/folder]] |
| 253 | |
| 254 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 255 | %%* The music video for Music/BrokenSocialScene's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS6Ycu148O0 "I'm Still Your Fag."]] |
| 256 | %%* Music/{{Oomph}}'s "Kleinstadtboy" is entirely about this trope. |
| 257 | * The song [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CTIncDdEWHI "I'm Not Gay"]] by Jesse Pepe has the singer talk about enacting various homoerotic situations while insisting he's not gay, and that he "like(s) vag more than a porn star scandal", etc. [[spoiler:Until the end, where he declares "I'm fucking gay!"]] |
| 258 | * ''Mann Gegen Mann'' by Music/{{Rammstein}} is a poetic exploration of this trope. The title literally means "Man Against Man", which has the same double meaning in German as in English: Man ''Fighting'' Against Man or Man ''Leaning'' Against Man, with the former definition alluding to violence and the latter to sex (and, for an added layer of entendre, it's also a homonym with "Mann gaygen Mann" - literally "Man gay for Man"). The song mixes depictions of the singer seeking love from other men, with homophobic lyrics ("I am every father's nightmare" and "My gender calls me a traitor") and, in the song's bridge, lead singer Till Lidemann yells a German homophobic slur between screaming. |
| 259 | * Music/{{Spoon}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmS7djrOut0 "The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine"]] seems to deal with this trope, describing a man who tries very hard to be masculine: "in his coat and his boots/and his black-heart machine/no one sees the two sides of Monsieur Valentine." Later, the man "makes love to the duke." |
| 260 | * Musical comedian Music/RoyZimmerman has a series of songs satirizing anti-gay politicians and activists who turn out to be closeted gays. Here's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlnQZVTAcRc the latest one.]] |
| 261 | [[/folder]] |
| 262 | |
| 263 | [[folder:Podcasts]] |
| 264 | * In the ''Podcast/CoolKidsTable'' game ''Creepy Town''. [[spoiler:The toughest jocks in town, Ethan and Frank, are revealed to be secret boyfriends just before Frank's death]]. |
| 265 | [[/folder]] |
| 266 | |
| 267 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 268 | * ''Theatre/AngelsInAmerica'' features a famous real-life example in Roy Cohn. He's so deep in the closet that even when admitting to sex with men against undeniable evidence (which was only brought up because he freaked out at even a hint of him being linked to the gay community), he still finds a way to claim that this doesn't make him a homosexual, as in his mind true gay men are weak and devoid of clout, which makes a supremely powerful man like him heterosexual. Adding onto his hypocritical homophobia, Roy refuses to even be officially diagnosed with AIDS, stating that the disease afflicts gay men, and has his record changed to state he has liver cancer. As in real life, his death from AIDS forever links him to the community that he despised whilst alienating him from his bigoted allies. |
| 269 | * ''Theatre/BeMoreChill'''s Rich continually bullies Jeremy and Michael, most of the attacks being homophobic. At the very end of the show, when his [[AIIsACrapshoot SQUIP]] is deactivated, he realizes that he's been bisexual the entire time, and actually has a crush on Michael. He once again asks Jeremy if Michael is his boyfriend, this time genuinely curious as opposed to cruel. |
| 270 | * ''Theatre/TheBookOfMormon'' features Elder [=McKinley=], a MauveShirt who demonstrates this as a RunningGag whenever the show draws attention to him, violently rejecting his sexuality even though everybody knows he's attracted to men. |
| 271 | * Dean in ''Theatre/EverybodysTalkingAboutJamie'' is heavily implied to be this. While he continually harasses Jamie for being gay and flamboyant, he walks into prom holding his hand at the end of the show. |
| 272 | * Kurt and Ram's dads in ''Theatre/HeathersTheMusical''. At the funeral, where he believes his son killed himself over being gay and ashamed, Ram's previously mega-macho man's man dad reveals that he and Kurt's dad have been having a secret affair for years. |
| 273 | [[/folder]] |
| 274 | |
| 275 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 276 | * The [[http://bioshock.wikia.com/wiki/Brute Brute Splicer]] model in ''VideoGame/BioShock2'' is a violently homophobic man who is always complaining about "poofs" and prefers boxing to wrestling because the latter involves two men touching each other too much for his liking. However, when under the effects of the Hypnotize plasmid, he can get downright flirtatious with Delta. |
| 277 | * In the video game ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}'', one of the jocks, Kirby, behaves the same way, until you finally make out with him. ''All'' of the cliques have one boy who will kiss Jimmy if his respect for their gang is high enough. If it's not, even Cornelius, the Urkel-like gay nerd, will try to whup Jimmy's ass with a yardstick. |
| 278 | * ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'': |
| 279 | ** James Garret is an... interesting example of this trope. He fits all the criteria, appearing to be disgusted to the point of anger by what he turns out to be himself. But he is not so much an armored closet gay man as he is an Armored Closet ''{{Robosexual}}''. The similarities to this trope are only further highlighted when the robot in question turns out to have a masculine personality. |
| 280 | ** Enforced by Caesar's Legion. Caesar himself punishes homosexuality with death but according to various characters it doesn't seem to stop his underlings, especially since they styled themselves after [[EveryoneIsBi ancient Rome]]. In fact, despite "don't ask, don't tell" being enforced on pain of death, homosexuality is said to be more accepted in Legion territory than neutral ground like the Mojave. Veronica comments that they "mount each other more than they mount their women", although it's left vague how much of that is NCR propaganda/her being a smartass. |
| 281 | * ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'': |
| 282 | ** Bryce Dawkins, the largely [[TheUnseen unseen]] Deputy Mayor of Liberty City, notorious for his vitriolic homophobic rants (thus pandering to his right-wing voter base). So it is perhaps no surprise that he turns out to be the lover of Bernie Crane, a ''very'' CampGay fitness trainer. In fact, most of Niko's missions with Bernie involve fending off members of TheMafiya trying to blackmail Bryce. The secret ends up getting revealed anyway (as a post-game radio news feed reveals), but Bryce still insists he's not gay, will not change his anti-gay stance, and instead "visited a rehab", presumably to "correct personal failures", or at least lie low for a while until the issue dies down in favor of celebrity scandals. Quoth a press statement meant to deflect accusations of homophobia against him... |
| 283 | --->'''Dawkins:''' I like gay people. Some of my best friends are gay, [[YouAreWhatYouHate I just don't want to know about it]]. [[ElephantInTheLivingRoom Can't we all get back to the important matter of]] [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror fighting terrorism by any means possible?]] |
| 284 | ** The same game also features Brucie, who is somehow both this ''and'' in the TransparentCloset. |
| 285 | * Invoked and played with for Kanji Tatsumi in ''VideoGame/Persona4''. When he was a kid, the other kids [[KidsAreCruel teased him]] for liking things like sewing and other "girly" things, so he developed a BadassBiker facade in order to defend himself. These feelings manifest themselves as a half-naked CampGay EvilTwin [[ShadowArchetype Shadow]] with shades of HeManWomanHater. However, since part of acquiring one's Persona is learning to accept your suppressed feelings, Kanji learns to be more at ease with himself (especially once he learns that there are people who ''do'' accept him for who he is). Although he remains [[ManlyGay a tough guy]], he stops worrying about whether or not he's "strange." Worth noting that his sexuality is [[ShrugOfGod deliberately left ambiguous]] in both (English and Japanese) versions, as the original focus of his issues that his interests make him "unmanly" by Japanese values, which is a problem that [[ValuesDissonance doesn't convey as well to Western audiences]]. Thus, Kanji is AmbiguouslyBi with his LoveInterest [[spoiler:famously being a girl with a ''very'' {{Tomboy}}-ish appearance, and who herself struggles with [[{{Bifauxnen}} wanting to work in a heavily male-oriented environment]] which her own Shadow is merciless about.]] |
| 286 | * In ''VisualNovel/YearningAGayStory'', Carlos starts out talking about how much he loves pussy every other sentence but it's very obvious in multiple scenes that he secretly checks out the male protagonist when they're swimming or running and he confesses after he eventually comes out as gay that he slept around with women so much because he hoped it would somehow make him straight. Not to mention how his family is very religious, which made him terrified about what might happen if they ever found out about his homosexuality. |
| 287 | [[/folder]] |
| 288 | |
| 289 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 290 | * ''WebAnimation/ActuallyHappened'': Downplayed in the video ''My Mom Entered My Room Without Knocking. Sorry, Mom...''. The protagonist mention how her friend tried to kiss her at age twelve. Though she liked her friend back, she didn't know what to do and got angry. She yelled at her friend that they couldn't be friends and tried to run away (only to accidentally fall off the roof). |
| 291 | [[/folder]] |
| 292 | |
| 293 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 294 | * ''Webcomic/TheBedfellows'': Sheen lives with, sleeps with, and [[BlackComedyRape rapes]] Fatigue, but is nevertheless abrasive to the point of borderline sociopathy. |
| 295 | * At a party, Shay from ''Webcomic/BetweenTheLines2006'' notices a girl as being a kid who used to beat her and throw homophobic slurs at her when they were younger. Shay comments that Nikki became like how she hated - they're both transgender - which gets Nikki quite mad. |
| 296 | %%* One of many traits that make Arthur Bennett from ''Webcomic/ButImACatPerson'' get loudly defensive. |
| 297 | * ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': |
| 298 | ** Tony is acting like a {{Jerkass}} to cover his crush on Tedd, according to Grace. It's been well-established that Tedd really is [[DudeLooksLikeALady just that girly]] and, as Justin puts it, doesn't have to worry about ''gay'' guys being attracted to him. So really the trope is just being triggered by a StupidSexyFlanders. |
| 299 | ** It's eventually revealed that the reason Lucy was constantly belittling Rhoda and making jibes about her being attracted to Diane (and ''stopped'' when Rhoda actually got a girlfriend, although the previous comments made her feel like she couldn't tell her friends) was that ''she'' was attracted to Diane and saw the third member of the group as competition. Once this is all sorted out, they make plans for a double date. |
| 300 | * If [[http://www.exiern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Exiern-2013-09-05-06.jpg this]] ''Webcomic/{{Exiern}}'' strip is saying what it sounds like, [[spoiler: Typhan-knee may have been gay all along, and that in part influenced the GenderBender curse, as well as post-transformation Tiffany's attraction to Denver]]. |
| 301 | * Possibly Roscoe from ''[[http://www.agameoffools.com A Game of Fools,]]'' if his terrified rantings about homosexuals are anything to go by: |
| 302 | -->'''Roscoe:''' The homosexuals be everywhere, behind every bush! Sometimes, I wake up after being real drunk, and there be naked homosexuals next to me! They be bewitching me! |
| 303 | %%* ''Webcomic/{{Kagerou}}'' [[http://www.kagerou.org/23/03.html here.]] Quite explicitly, too. |
| 304 | * ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons'': |
| 305 | ** Angels [[NoBiologicalSex are normally genderless]], though they generally use he/him pronouns. The KnightTemplar angel 6 Juggernaut Star Scours the Universe especially hates mortals (''especially'' humans) and any angels who ascribe to mortal concepts like gender, calling them deviants and seeking to kill them whenever possible. It even [[ItIsDehumanizing prefers being called "it"]] just to distance itself from such mortal concepts. [[spoiler:It later turns out its Void form's spiked skeleton apperance is an intentionally cultivated GameFace: When its concentration slips, 6 Juggernaut Star turns out to be a BrokenAngel who looks like a human woman in a pretty dress, with burnt-away wings. Even TransTribulations sufferer 82 White Chain, who considers herself a woman and hates 6 Juggernaut Star for representing the worst of angelkind, is given pause when she discovers this and tries to reach out to 6 Juggernaut Star as "sister".]] |
| 306 | ** Allison is a more traditional version. The comic starts with her trying to [[VirginShaming lose her virginity]] to her boyfriend, but she later admits that he's a bit of a jerk and she was just trying to do it because it felt important at the time. Gay communities sometimes refer to this as "compulsory heterosexuality" where questioning people, especially lesbians, date people they're not actually interested in to try to fit in. Allison has a lot of sexual tension with Cio, a female devil, [[spoiler:and they kiss during ''Seeker of Thrones''. While Allison tries to brush it off at first (she was barely even conscious, for one thing), she soon agrees to go on a date with Cio]]. |
| 307 | * Mitch from ''Webcomic/LongExposure'' used to bully Jonas because he didn't know how to handle having a crush on him. By the time the comic starts, though, he's trying to make amends for his past behavior by acting (sort of) friendlier towards Jonas and eventually admitting to him the real reason behind his bullying of him. [[spoiler:Soon after, they hook up.]] |
| 308 | * The reason why Pyper is so abrasive towards Jen and Max in ''Webcomic/MagicalBoy'' is that she harbored attraction towards other women (most likely Jen) and is fully aware of how her pastor father would think about it, internalizing these feelings and taking out her frustration on them. |
| 309 | * ''Mr. Normal'' is a webcomic about a very closeted trans woman trying to suppress her wants by acting ultra-masculine and lashing out at effeminate men and transgender women. She makes friends with a trans woman who can't get that she dislikes her. |
| 310 | %%* [[http://nonadventures.com/2011/07/02/when-in-chrome/ Robot version]] in ''Webcomic/TheNonAdventuresOfWonderella''. |
| 311 | * Olly and Mondo in ''Roommates''. After beating up on Gian and finding out Junior actually ''is'' openly gay (and not just GayBravado as they had always assumed), they return to their dorm and [[SlapSlapKiss have a frank heated argument punctuated with spontaneous rough sex]]. At least twice. |
| 312 | * The Faroe Islands in ''Webcomic/ScandinaviaAndTheWorld''. Being outed makes him invoke a [[http://satwcomic.com/ungodly-surprise DESPERATE HOLY SLAM!]] |
| 313 | ** Possibly America, too, though that one isn't as obvious. |
| 314 | * After a comic in which the token gay character of ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'' gets propositioned by an alien from Uranus, a number of readers simultaneously commented that the alien is a dead ringer for Seymour, the [[ComicallyMissingThePoint overenthusiastic]] bible-thumping Christian. Seymour has also shown up in a comic where Satan tempts Jesus with the promise of hot bitches. |
| 315 | ** Li'l E also had distinctively armoured-closet behavior. A notable comic has him nagging Buddha for his feminine traits, only to swoon and gush when Satan walks by. [[spoiler: Subverted with the reveal that Li'l E is actually Satan's ''son''.]] |
| 316 | * In [[http://skin-horse.com/comic/of-ancient-gears/ this]] ''Webcomic/SkinHorse'', Sweetheart, an [[UpliftedAnimal Uplifted Dog]] who is canonically in love with her female roommate, advocates [[CureYourGays "curing"]] a same-sex couple of Uplifted Opossums because she fears that LGBT Uplifted Animals will harm the UpliftedAnimal cause. For context, the other characters are concerned about the couple because the couple wants to use MadScience to evangelize people for the ChurchOfHappyology they're founding. |
| 317 | * ''Webcomic/{{Spinnerette}}'': Sarah is quite against [[spoiler: homosexuality despite being gay herself,]] and the drugs she happily distributes to everyone can turn gay people straight among other effects. She even continues to dose herself to [[spoiler:keep herself straight]]. However, since the drugs ''do'' alter people's personalities to make them more "wholesome," it's not clear whether or not she was like this before [[spoiler:the church gave her the drugs. Depends on if she willingly sought out a cure for being gay, or if it was forced on her.]] |
| 318 | * ''Webcomic/StringTheory2009'' has Dr. Benjamin Langstrom, thanks to the 1950s-esque morality of the American DaysOfFuturePast setting looking almost as unfavorably on homosexuality as on [[RedScare communism]]. Per WordOfGod: |
| 319 | -->''Langstrom had to remain closeted or else he'd risk his career. Especially risky with a teaching career. His friend Dr. Auditore was outed, unfortunately, and now the only job he can get is as a drug rehabilitation counselor at a prison out in the middle of nowhere (and only because his friend's sister runs it).'' |
| 320 | * In ''Webcomic/TailsGetsTrolled'' Bugs Bunny joins the Troll Slaiyers due to his ability to screw with trolls by crossdressing and kissing them (he's nicknamed "The Gay"), but he mentions that he hates doing so. Later, Bugs confesses that he actually became gay with Daffy. |
| 321 | * PlayedForDrama in ''Webcomic/WelcomeToRoom305''. [[spoiler:Yoona]] has heavy baggage about being lesbian, no thanks to her [[spoiler:twin brothers]] homophobic backlash when he learned her secret. She begins pretending to be straight and [[spoiler:Yoon Sung]], realizing the emotional damage he's causing, tries to stop her. She resists and their relationship continues to sour. [[spoiler:Yoon Sung]] pretends to be gay in order to get her to stop but [[spoiler:Yoona]] in turn becomes overprotective and highly homophobic towards ''him''. |
| 322 | * ''Webcomic/WinterBeforeSpring:'' After Hana confesses to her friend Min-ji and is betrayed, she is terrified of being put through the same with her new friend Yura, and expresses some mild anti-gay sentiments, calling it “unnatural.” |
| 323 | [[/folder]] |
| 324 | |
| 325 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 326 | * ''Website/TheOnion'': |
| 327 | ** Parodied by [[http://www.theonion.com/articles/why-do-all-these-homosexuals-keep-sucking-my-cock,11150/ this article]] titled "Why do all these homosexuals keep sucking my cock?" |
| 328 | ** Parodied in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZujnzuPIEPM this video]] where "Rick Santorum" reveals why he doesn't like gay marriage is because his boyfriend cheated on him and married some other guy. |
| 329 | ** Parodied in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=simV1ZXFsxI this video]] where Republican politicians are reported to seek services of male prostitutes at the RNC convention Tampa Bay. |
| 330 | * Rational Wiki refers to this as [[http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Haggard%27s_Law Haggard's Law]], in reference to an infamous RealLife incident where Ted Haggard (known for his staunch, aggressive anti-gay stance) continued to claim that he's not gay or bi [[ImplausibleDeniability despite being caught paying male prostitutes to have sex with him]]. |
| 331 | * Deconstructed with James Toranaga of ''Literature/{{Touch 2017}}'', who gets very angry when his friend Casper notices his crush on another boy. Given that James is a recent rape victim still figuring out his sexuality, the outburst is fairly justified. |
| 332 | [[/folder]] |
| 333 | |
| 334 | [[folder:Web Video]] |
| 335 | * Heavily implied with Jace Connors of ''WebVideo/DeagleNation'' -- [[EasterEgg one of his past Google searches]] is "how to tell if your gay". |
| 336 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuA7l9vQQXQ This]] animatic for a cover of "Hellfire" from ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'' changes the implications of the song due to the singer being female. The protagonist of the short is a nun who is lusting over another woman. Frollo's hypocritical and violent attitude is still there. |
| 337 | * In the final episode of ''WebVideo/HellsingUltimateAbridged'', [[spoiler:Alucard, after seemingly being destroyed, finds himself trapped with the souls of several million dead Londoners. [[TookALevelInKindness Without even thinking about it]], he helps one guy deal with his insecurities about his own appearance and discovers that by helping them resolve their UnfinishedBusiness they could all move on and he could come back to life. He then helps a second person whose emotions about a "guy kissing another guy" turn out to be rooted in "wishing it ''could'' be him but not thinking it can", then he fwips out, and taking what followed in macro, an improbable fraction of them -- he claims "like a third" -- were "just in the closet", and it's implied he developed a habit of calling out, "You're ''gay!...''"]] |
| 338 | * Vanessa on ''WebVideo/OutWithDad'', due to her strict Catholic upbringing. Her homophobia is mostly a reaction to her being terrified that she might be gay. |
| 339 | [[/folder]] |
| 340 | |
| 341 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 342 | * Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad''. Terry's father Tank Bates is homophobic and deeply disapproves of his son's homosexuality. Stan accuses him of being a homosexual and outs him in front of a crowded football stadium. It turns out that Tank truly is not homosexual. Stan's attempts to reconcile the father and son reveal that Tank actually subverts ''every'' other homophobia-explanation trope as well. He doesn't think it's against God, he doesn't think it's a choice, he doesn't think they are all CampGay or after his butt, etc. He is unable/unwilling to offer ''any'' explanation or justification for hating gays in general and his son specifically (his son even produced a grandchild for him already, what is this guy's deal?). |
| 343 | * Gangstaliscious from ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' is a gangsta rapper who is secretly gay. In his second appearance, Gangstalicious drops increasingly obvious hints about his homosexuality, but he still keeps denying it. |
| 344 | * ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'': Clara is racist, xenophobic and religious but can't resist making out with Foxxy in a hot tub. |
| 345 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode where Chris dates Connie [=DiMico=] and becomes popular, there's a jock who keeps mentioning how he plans to bully the "gay" nerds (with each mention becoming more and more homoerotic), until he finally says at the end "I'm gay, alright?!" |
| 346 | * Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' where Professor Farnsworth is against [[{{Robosexual}} human-robot]] marriages because he dated a robot who eventually left him. |
| 347 | * This is a fairly popular AlternativeCharacterInterpretation for Murderface in ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'' fanfiction, expanding on the series's running gag of his insecurity in his sexuality. |
| 348 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 349 | ** In one episode, Lisa invokes this trope when Nelson is teasing Bart and calls him gay. Lisa points out that homophobic people who accuse others of being gay often have sexuality issues. This shuts up a wide-eyed Nelson, as he runs away. |
| 350 | ** Moe once suspected a politician of being a closet gay because of how anti-gay the politician acts. |
| 351 | * ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': |
| 352 | ** Mr. Garrison (prior to coming out in the fourth season). |
| 353 | ** Craig Tucker and Tweek Tweak are heavily implied to be this in Season 19's [[Recap/SouthParkS19E6TweekXCraig Tweek x Craig]], as they repeatedly state that they are not gay, but the whole town either ignores or disregards their statements and eventually, Tweek and Craig get together in the end, realizing that they are gay, as confirmed by WordOfGod by Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone on Twitter, which is further shown on Season 21's [[Recap/SouthParkS21E2PutItDown Put it Down]]. |
| 354 | * Naturally, a major plot twist in ''WesternAnimation/SuperDrags''. [[spoiler:Sandoval, the religious nutcase running an anti-gay camp, was the DragQueen villain Lady Elza all along.]] |
| 355 | [[/folder]] |
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| 358 | ->''"[[Music/RoyZimmerman Now Ted would like you all to know the story has a moral]]...\ |
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