'''Basic Trope''': A character is gay but shows no obvious gay traits.
* '''[[AccidentalPun Straight]]''': Bob is gay but doesn't fit into any gay stereotypes. He dresses like the average heterosexual man and has typical male interests.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Bob is gay but takes all of the heterosexual male stereotypes to an extreme, being more stereotypically male than even his straight friends.
** Bob even engages in flirting (if not making out) with women, [[HaveIMentionedIAmGay but is always claiming that he is gay.]]
** Bob is a rather chauvinist pig who is also gay with no camp mannerisms, he even claims that [[HeManWomanHater women]], camp gays, and even straight men are inferior.
** ManlyGay.
* '''Downplayed''':
** Bob has both stereotypically straight ''and'' gay interests (For example, he watches football and ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace''), but otherwise he looks and acts masculine.
** Bob isn't exactly CampGay, but he [[RealMenWearPink likes few "unmanly" things like musicals and mani-pedis.]]
** Bob is a gay {{Bishonen}} who [[TheDandy likes to groom himself]] and he acts [[GentlemanAndAScholar world-wise, gentlemanly, and sophisticated.]]
** Bob is an introverted nerdy gay guy who plays VideoGame/TeamFortress2 as well as watches several {{Seinen}} {{Moe}} anime.
* '''Justified''':
** It is simply Bob's natural personality.
** Or, he [[FlyingUnderTheGaydar has to hide his gay mannerisms because he lives in a conservative area, or for the sake of his career]].
** Bob actively avoids campy behavior [[StopBeingStereotypical out of fear of being a stereotype]].
* '''Inverted''':
** CampStraight.
** CampGay
* '''GenderInverted''': LipstickLesbian.
* '''Subverted''':
** Bob is gay and seems to show no obvious gay mannerisms, but when he is around more intimate friends or by himself, he becomes a CampGay.
** Bob is really straight after all. He just [[FauxYay faking his orientation]] [[Series/ThreesCompany to get closer to the girls]].
* '''Double Subverted''': Bob is gay and seems to show no obvious gay mannerisms, but when he is around more intimate friends, he becomes a CampGay... but it turns out he does that just so he can fit in with them, and isn't CampGay naturally.
* '''Parodied''': Bob has no gay mannerisms and never acts gay, to the point where no one has any reason to believe that he is gay other than the fact that he says he is, leading to HaveIMentionedIAmGay, as well as hilarious misunderstanding.
* '''Zig Zagged''':
** Bob shows no gay mannerisms, but acts CampGay around his gay friends, but when he comes home, he loses the gay mannerisms, but then he wishes he weren't in the habit of hiding them, but then it turns out he isn't gay at all...
** DependingOnTheWriter Bob is either straight gay, {{camp gay}}, {{camp straight}}, [[HaveIMentionedThatIAmHeterosexualToday 'definitely' straight]], or simply bi.
* '''Averted''': Bob isn't gay, even though he is [[AlwaysCamp the type of character than normally would be]].
* '''Enforced''':
** Bob doesn't show any gay mannerisms because the producers of the show are afraid of angering gay rights activists or turning off their viewers by showing a CampGay man.
** The producers of the show are gay themselves and want to counteract the stereotypical portrayals of gay characters in the media because they're fed up of them.
** The creator is a heterosexual YaoiFangirl and she [[AuthorAppeal lets her types of men]] bleed into her official couple since she doesn't find attractiveness in [[CampGay overly flamboyant male characters]].
** He's a straight actor playing a gay character, and the ExecutiveMeddling convinces that he shouldn't display flaming mannerisms due to the fact [[NWordPrivileges he isn't gay himself.]]
* '''Lampshaded''': "You know, not all of us gays are [[CampGay flaming]]; some of us act just like you."
* '''Invoked''': Bob uses the fact that he has no gay mannerisms to pretend to be straight and reap some sort of benefit from doing so.
* '''Exploited''': Bob poses as straight to [[FlyingUnderTheGaydar fly under the gaydar]].
* '''Defied''': Bob tries to show gay mannerisms, even though they don't come naturally to him, to avoid being a StraightGay.
* '''Discussed''': "I know Bob isn't flaming, but that doesn't mean he isn't gay."
* '''Conversed''': "Just because Bob is Alice's gay best friend on this show doesn't mean he needs to act like a poof; not all gays are flaming, you know."
* '''Implied''': Bob has no love interest at all in the story, and a throwaway line suggests that [[AmbiguouslyGay he isn't entirely straight.]]
* '''Deconstructed''':
** Bob's super-butch exterior hides deep [[InternalizedCategorism insecurity and self-loathing]] about being gay. He plays up his manliness every chance he gets, looks down on more effeminate gays, and he avoids gay bars and queer-themed events even if it's something within his scope of interests. Furthermore, he will only date men as "str8-acting" as he is.
** Bob is alienated from both sides, the homophobic straight men for being gay, and the {{Camp Gay}}s [[NoTrueScotsman for not acting like them]].
* '''Reconstructed''':
** Bob is able to use his lack of gay mannerisms to avoid other peoples' gaydar, helping his career or allowing him to go unnoticed in a homophobic area. More generally, Bob's lack of gay mannerisms allows the audience to see him as a well-rounded character, rather than a token gay.
** Bob flat-out ''rejects'' what society keeps telling him. He can be gay and still be a non-camp guy if he damn well pleases.
* '''Played For Laughs''':
** Bob's lack of gay mannerisms is used as the butt of a joke.
** When trying to spot Bob from a crowd of gay or CampStraight men, he's the only one not engaging in any feminine activity, and is puzzled by everyone else's camp attitude.
** In a comedy with an ensemble cast of gay men, Bob is, ironically, TheStraightMan.
* '''Played For Drama''': Bob doesn't show any gay mannerisms because he is afraid of people finding out his sexuality, for fear of homophobia. To make matters worse, the {{Camp Gay}}s always see [[NoTrueScotsman Bob still in the closet]].
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