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* [[spoiler:Nancy and Ginger]] deal with this in ''ComicBook/AfterlifeWithArchie''. [[spoiler:Ginger]] wants to be open about it but [[spoiler:Nancy]] is afraid that their families will react negatively, or people will be less accepting of them due to their ethnic backgrounds combined with their sexualities.
* Renee's ex-girlfriend Katherine "Kate" Kane (a.k.a. ComicBook/{{Batwoman}}) had her own issues. [[MilitaryBrat The daughter of two career soldiers]], when her mother and twin sister were killed during her childhood kidnapping Kate's sole dream was to follow in her parents' footsteps in the army and somehow make a ''difference''. Accepted to the Military Academy at West Point, Kate actually became Cadet Captain and, in the estimation of her instructors, would go on to become a high-ranking, well-respected officer once she graduated...until rumors regarding her sexuality began to circulate around the campus. Army regulations require the discharge of any soldier confirmed to be homosexual, and Kate's [[HonorBeforeReason refusal to lie about herself]] resulted in her being "[[UnusualEuphemism separated]]" from the army, ending the only dream she has had since she was ten years old. It is only once she sees Franchise/{{Batman}} after a hapless individual [[MuggingTheMonster attempts to steal her wallet]] that she sets a ''new'' goal for herself, and she still needs to deal with the criticism and rejection of her "family" and "friends" (everyone but her dad) from high-society.

* Pointedly averted in ''ComicBook/Bloom2019''; it seems like everyone knows both Ari and Hector are gay and homophobia plays no role in the story.

* The [[OldShame discontinued]] ''ComicBook/ChickTract'' "[[http://www.enterthejabberwock.com/?p=465 Wounded Children]]", fit this to a T (although it is also full of {{Narm}}), because of his views of homosexuality Chick's tracts on the subject had the message "There is nothing gay about being gay" before shifting to "Those who support or tolerate homosexuality are evil".

* This is a frequent and longstanding part of Renee Montoya's character, starting from when she was first outed in ''ComicBook/GothamCentral''. A police officer, Renee already had extensive personal issues due to being an [[TwoferTokenMinority honest Hispanic woman]] in a primarily male, primarily white, ''completely'' corrupt police department. When [[StalkerWithACrush Two-Face]] outed her to friends and family her captain, Maggie Sawyer (an open lesbian), attempted to help her deal with the issues that arise in this situation. Unfortunately, as Renee rather vehemently points out, their situations are nothing alike, as Maggie did not already have racial and gender baggage to deal with, and she was from Metropolis, not Gotham, and the differences between the two societies run deeper than just the different operating hours of their heroes. Combined with other factors, (including the normal drama and angst that comes with being a police officer) Renee eventually descends into alcoholism and serious contemplations of suicide while she bounces from one-night-stand to one-night-stand. She gets better, eventually, but some comics have her relationships plagued with conflict and drama. This cocktail of angst and social trauma about her own identity [[ComicBook/TheQuestion eventually helps shape her own career as a masked vigilante]].
* In the later albums of ''ComicBook/LesNombrils'', [[spoiler:Vicky]] is [[ClosetKey kissed by Megane]], but refuses to admit she could like her back. [[TheBeard She then starts dating her brother despite not really liking him]], mainly to impress her parents and {{s|oreLoser}}ister. Then, one evening, as her new boyfriend kisses her, she sees Megane by the window and [[LoveEpiphany realizes Megane is the one she loves as her heart starts beating]]. They have several instances of UnresolvedSexualTension and DistractedByTheSexy until she [[LoveConfession drunkenly tells Megane her feelings,]] but that makes [[spoiler:Vicky]] realize that she can never be happy since [[IHaveNoSon her parents are homophobic and clearly stated they wouldn't hesitate to disown her if she was gay (it's actually the only thing they still agree on)]]. And then she is almost ForcedOutOfTheCloset when Jenny reveals that [[KissingUnderTheInfluence she saw her and Megane kiss]]... Panicked, [[spoiler: Vicky]] [[ForcefulKiss blames Megane]] who uses the occasion to do her coming-out. [[spoiler: Vicky's]] parents buy it, but her boyfriend rejects her, realizing why she didn't like to touch him.
* Inversion: In "Loving Gay Men", a rewrite of the ''Theatre/SwanLake''/''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'' story, "A Heart Full of Dreams", by Jeanne Martinet (found in ''[[https://www.amazon.com/Truer-Than-True-Romance-Classic/dp/0823084388/ Truer Than True Romance]]''), Lora falls for Alex before discovering that he is her gay housemate's new boyfriend. She [[IJustWantToBeNormal bemoans the lack of straight men in her life]] and is convinced that [[CastFullOfGay there are none left]]. She becomes even more alarmed when she starts [[SpeaksFluentAnimal talking to swans]] and dreaming about Alex, swans, and poofy hats.
* Gay superhero couple ComicBook/{{Midnighter}} and Apollo were created to [[AngstWhatAngst avoid this trope]] like the plague, with especially Midnighter being a ''very'' "out and proud" ManlyGay but his lover/husband Apollo also being completely unconflicted about his sexuality. However, it was revealed in the DC Rebirth mini-series ''Midnighter and Apollo'' that Apollo suffered quite a lot of this during his early adolescence (as described in the new, retconned version of his origin story). His father actually threw him out[[note]](not out on the streets, but he sent him to live with his aunt and didn't speak to him again)[[/note]] when he came out to his parents at the tender age of 12. And when Apollo tried to re-connect with his family after finally managing to escape from the aliens who'd abducted him a year after that and turned him into a copy of [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Superman]] over the course of his teenage years, his father ''still'' rejected him - now having ''two'' reasons to consider his son "not human". Thankfully, all this suffering only made Apollo stronger in adulthood.
--> '''Apollo''': (speaking to ''the Devil'') "You think you can ''break'' me, Neron? People have been trying to break me my entire life."
* Karolina Dean of Marvel's ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' has a crush on her best friend Nico, made out with a guy she'd just met [[IJustWantToBeNormal because she wanted to feel "normal"]], and tried to commit [[SuicideByCop suicide by proxy]]. However, the fact that she's an alien and that her parents are supervillains probably adds to her angst.

* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' has several minor gay characters, none of whom get happy endings.

* The early chapters of ''Webcomic/{{Alfie}}'' have an unexpected amount of this [[PornWithPlot all things considered]]. The title character was having a few drinks and watching her closest friend[=/=]confidant[=/=]Partner in Offences Against Public Morality Melly make out with one of the human caravan guards they had [[CoughSnarkCough *ahem*]] befriended when it [[ClosetKey hit her]]; she was not just fascinated by attractive women getting it on with attractive men, she was ''fascinated by attractive women as well as attractive men''. She spent the next couple of chapters quietly terrified that Melly (who was well aware she slept around a fair bit before turning out to be somewhat of a [[InterspeciesRomance xenophile]]), let alone the other villagers who were [[CovertPervert convinced she was a "Good Girl"]], would [[HeteronormativeCrusader turn on her]] in an ''instant'' if they even had a hint of such desires.

** Riley hit on his best friend, then threatened to beat him up if he ever told anybody. Then he started popping steroids, believing it would turn him straight. He eventually came [[CanadaEh oot]] almost by mistake by signing himself and Zane up for prom couple which was posted [[EverythingIsOnline online]].