Line #16 PlayingWith/TransparentCloset


1	'''Basic Trope''': A character is closeted, but everyone knows they're gay.
2	* '''[[BlatantLies Straight]]''': Alice is not out, and calls herself straight. Everyone knows she's gay.
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** Alice is gender-conforming, has never been in a relationship with a woman, and is overall StraightGay. She claims to be straight. Everyone still knows she's gay.
5	** Alice is married to another woman but still denies being gay.
6	* '''Downplayed''': Alice's closest friends suspect she's gay, but it's not suspected by the majority of her acquaintances.
7	* '''Justified''': Alice's friends know Alice very well, and--unlike Alice herself--don't have personal reasons to be denial about it.
8	* '''Inverted''':
9	** Alice ''is'' actually straight, but is constantly MistakenForGay.
10	** Alice is very open about being gay, has many stereotypical gay traits, and it ''still'' believed by most to be straight.
11	** Alice ''really'' wants to believe she's gay, but her constant fantasizing about men and clear uninterest in girls fool nobody.
12	* '''Subverted''': Everyone thinks Alice is gay. She eventually comes out... as bisexual.
13	* '''Double Subverted''': Over time, Alice's understanding of her own sexuality changes, and she eventually concludes that actually she ''is'' gay.
14	* '''Parodied''': Everyone knows Alice is gay, even when Alice acts completely straight, has never been attracted to a woman, and ''has no reason to presume she's gay''. [[BeyondTheImpossible (They're right.)]]
15	* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice is either bisexual, bicurious, or questioning her sexuality.
16	* '''Averted''': No one has any assumptions about Alice's sexuality at all.
17	* '''Enforced''': "We don't want a AssPull situation, so let's foreshadow Alice's sexuality by having her family suspect it years before she comes out."
18	* '''Lampshaded''': "I'm not gay! What, just because my best friend sleeps over a lot makes me gay?"
19	* '''Invoked''': "You know, if you want to come out of the closet, no one will judge you..."
20	* '''Exploited''': Bob blackmails Alice with her "secret." This works, because Alice is the only who thinks it's a secret.
21	* '''Defied''':
22	--> '''Bob:''' That whole girl-crush repression act reeks of "Total Closet Case".
23	--> '''Alice:''' Bold of you to assume the repression was me hiding in a closet. I'm just anxious she won't like me.
24	* '''Discussed''': "When will Alice come out of the closet? I mean, everyone can see it!"
25	* '''Conversed''': "Oh, goodness, another gay person who insists she's anything but. When will these TV types learn?"
26	* '''Deconstructed''': Alice is annoyed by everyone presuming to know her sexuality. She spends years repressing her sexuality, not out of homophobia, but out of a ReversePsychology desire to prove wrong everyone's assumptions about her.
27	* '''Reconstructed''': When she finally does come to terms with her sexuality, Alice learns a lesson about listening to other people and not assuming they're wrong out of hand.
28	* '''Played For Laughs''':
29	** Bob is an exaggerated CampGay [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday who claims to be completely straight and utterly manly]], you silly pumpkin!
30	** Alice claims she's still straight ''because'' she likes girls. Since both parties would prefer females, and [[InsaneTrollLogic not liking girls is gay]], there can't possibly be a person in that scenario that isn't heterosexual.
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32	Wait... are you calling me gay? I'm not gay! Just because I enjoy the female form and then doesn't make me gay! ...I'm going back to TransparentCloset.
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34	%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
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36	%%* '''Parodied''': ???
37	%%* '''Implied''': ???

Context PlayingWith / TransparentCloset