The stereotype known as "the flaming queen" — a male homosexual in tight (often leather) pants and a loose, blousy shirt, often with a silk kerchief or scarf knotted around their neck, and all of these usually in pastel colors. Sometimes speaks with a lisp, and is given toward feminine body language and "limp-wrist" gestures. Carries a European Carry All, but isn't afraid to call it a purse. They often have "effeminate" jobs too. While there is generally no reason they'd need to overlap with Have I Mentioned I am Gay?, they often do anyways.
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Anime and Manga
Hanagata from Saber Marionette J. He is filthy rich, pretty delicate-looking, and always fantasizes about having a relationship with the poor, dark-skinned, hard-working Otaru. In the Latin American dub, he even speaks with a grossly effeminate voice.
In the anime series Blood+, Nathan Mahler is a Flamboyant Gay, but don't mistake him for harmless. If you anger him, he'll start talking in a deep, creepy voice, then transform into a Chiropteran and tear you to shreds.
Dorian in From Eroica with Love practically defines this trope on the surface, but don't think that he's harmless, it's an mostly affected act to annoy people specifcally the Major.
Leeron in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. Subverted in that he's easily the smartest person on the show and a highly skilled mechanic.
Made even more hilarious by the fact that he is flamboyantly played by Steve Blum in the English dub, a VA often typecast for portrayals of growly macho badasses. And he does such a good job it's almost kinda creepy.
However, it's worth pointing out that he basically has two theme songs (one pre-timeskip and more ambient, and one post-timeskip and more electronic). The first features an electronic voice spelling out L E-E R-O-N I S G A Y H E I-S S O G A Y G A Y H E L O V E S M Y A S S H O-L E A S S H O L E. The second features a vocoded voice which is difficult to make out, but seems to be saying (among other thing) "He is super macho man, uber macho man. Leeron is so hard gay I don't have a choice."
Ginka from Kyouran Kazoku Nikki, due to gender identity issues, is mostly in this state, but if someone threatens his family, he gets sufficiently badass. Chika prefers the badass side.
Okuyama from Nodame Cantabile is so flaming it's a miracle his timpani mallets don't catch fire when he grabs them.
Nene, the openly bisexual (although more lesbian overall) class representative from Hyakko, may be a rare female example. She dresses very much like a stereotypical male homosexual with all those frilly garments—and also has the mannerisms down pat.
Mr. 2/Bon-chan from One Piece. There's a certain amount of humor derived from how him and Luffy add the suffix 'chan' to each other's name, the latter apparently oblivious to the implications the uninitiated would pick up from a teenager and a flamboyant older man referring to each other this way.
Film
Hollywood Montrose in Mannequin.
Quentin Crisp in the film adaptation of The Naked Civil Servant. He's the protagonist, and not played for comedy.
Zorro's limp-wristed twin brother Bunny Wigglesworth, in "Zorro, the Gay Blade". He wears exceedingly frilly, pastel clothes, a male but foppish wig and mounds of makeup. During his tenure as Zorro, Bunny uses a whip instead of a sword, wears a different-colored costume every night and dresses in drag to infiltrate the Big Bad's costume party.
Literature
In Stephen King's It the killing spree in the 80-ies starts off with a bunch of thugs beating a gay man within an inch of his life and then throwing him into the canal where Pennywise awaits. The thugs all claim that they were provoced into beating the man up because he was such a flamboyant gay person.
Live Action TV
Jack in Will and Grace. Will actually said once, "Is there any part of the stereotype you don't fit?"
Parodied by Daffyd, 'The Only Gay In The Village' in Little Britain, who struts around town in an increasing variety of stereotypically 'gay' outfits camping it up as much as possible. Meanwhile, all of the other gay or bi- people in the village (whose existence he strenuously denies) are for the most part about as mixed and varied a bunch as you'd expect in real life.
Kind-of parodied on Extras: Andy Millman almost loses his chance to get his sitcom filmed by calling his writing partner "too gay." He subsequently apologises... although another recurring character is the definition of the stereotype, (and who works in theatre, no less) with his flamboyance played for laughs without apparent irony.
Herbert in Tanz der Vampire- tall, slender, blond, soft-spoken though with a (usually, depends on the actor) deep voice, androgynously pretty and smothered in ruffles, his main purpose is to serve almost as the male equivalent of a Vampire Bride who latches onto the hero while he's looking for the girl he thinks is his true love.
Video Games
The Magimel brothers from the Shadow Hearts games, who always seem to show up whenever you visit a new town. One of them makes outfits for dolls, and the other sells items (and often likes to comment on the [male] main character's appearance), but only if you collect naked men trading cards to get his "creative juices" flowing.
Florian "Bernie Crane" Cravic in the fourth Grand Theft Auto. Of course, it's more of an achievement to find non-stereotypical characters in GTA than the other way around...
Jann from the PS3 game Valkyria Chronicles. While having to wear a male militiary uniform prevents him from wearing dresses, he still wears women's make-up. The gameplay mimics this too - his potentials are things like "Fancies Men" and "Pollen Allergy" and he also has a unique potnetial named "Largo Lover" that activates whenever he is around Largo, which gives the player a short sequence of Jann girlishly squealing with excitement. The English dub even gave him a voice that may as well be Big Gay Al.
This tropers theroy is that he's Bi. His claims feel more like denial and he seems to have a thing for Naoto even before Naoto is discovered to be a she. His description for a perfect women could easily be a description of the perfect man as well. In the long run, this tropers a bit disappointed that you couldn't date him, the tropers not gay...I just think it would have been cute. Regardless it's excusable as if you could that would conferm him being at least bi and thus you'd lose some funny reactions from him.
Makoto from the 360 RPG Enchanted Arms has long hair and women's makeup and basically plays the role of Clingy Jealous Guy to popular student Yuki in the game's introductory sequence.
Dennis from Ty the Tasmanian Tiger. It gets weird in the third game, where the same tree frog who was gushing about cooking a "scrumptious" lunch at length one game earlier suddenly is going around with a rocket launcher...
One of Vega's winning quotes in Street Fighter 2 HD Remix is "I'm so fabulous!" Couple that with his fighting style and you get... well...
Webcomics
Dillon of Menage a 3 is by no means subtle when it comes to his sexuality. Honestly, it begs the question of how Gary didn't notice earlier than he did.
Mark from Khaos Komix. Suprisingly, his homophobic friend Jamie doesn't really pick on it. Also, Murfs, to some extent.
Western Animation
Clarence in Code Monkeys, who is such a *ahem* fairy that he literally floats in the air trailing pixie dust.
Drama teacher Mr. Bickles in Fairly OddParents fits this trope to a T. Oddly enough, in one throw-away gag he tried to take up Green-Skinned Space Babe Man-Die's marriage offer, but that may just be a consequence of having only a handful of adult males on the show, or a subtle aversion of No Bisexuals. (Subtle by the show's standards, anyway)
Various extras in Family Guy, of note, Brian's cousin Jasper from Los Angeles and Stewie's drama teacher.
Greg Corbin and Terry Bates in American Dad. Roger the alien talks like the trope, but he himself isn't particularly gay, even though he can play a staggering amount of different personas.
On Jimmy Neutron, Ambiguously Gay Principal Willoughby seems more interested in staging Broadway-style shows than education.
The Random persona of Blitzwing in Transformers Animated is, according to him, "light on his oscillating servos". Unlike his other two personas he has a rather high-pitched and giggly voice and has markedly more feminine behavior. On one occasion he referred to a crane (that he did not know was nonsentient) with "it's big, it's bold, it's sassy!".
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