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alternative title(s): Les Yay; Men Yay; Gay Yay; Homoeroticism Yay; Ho Yay Shipping
Ho Yay

"I'd say there was a subtle subtext here that Sam is deeply in love with Frodo, but it's more like skywriting with brass band accompaniment."

Homoeroticism, yay!

Those moments of plot, dialogue, acting, etc., that fans delight in interpreting as homoerotic.

It probably originates from the old days, when the homosexuality taboo was serious enough that every gay pairing was considered a Crack Pairing, so when authors wrote characters as very intimate with each other, everyone just accepted that they are just very good friends, and moved on, or when they wrote outright references to homosexuality, everyone just laughed at the sheer absurdity of the thought, and moved on.

With the emergence of Yaoi Fans and Yuri Fans, and the more open-minded writers, this changed forever. Nowadays, fans willingly interpret any interaction as potentially gay, even for characters without canon orientations and even for those specifically stated by their creators to be straight.

In the related trope called Foe Yay, even rivals or mortal enemies can get this treatment by fans and writers alike, especially if they have a more friendly past together, or one is inordinately obsessed with the other. In Fan Fic, this is the direct cause of many a Slash Fic.

This list does not include genuine ship teases or scenes of objective Homoerotic Subtext between straight characters.


Examples:


Contractual Genre BlindnessAbridged Series TropesJust A Stupid Accent
Het Is EwShipping TropesFoe Yay Shipping
Homosexual ReproductionQueer as TropesIncompatible Orientation
Horror TropesIndex IndexHyperspace Index
Hilarious in HindsightAudience ReactionsHoly Shit Quotient
Good Eyes, Evil EyesBoys Love TropesIf It's You, It's Okay
High Heel Face TurnGender and Sexuality TropesFoe Yay
Hot MomOlder than DirtHuman Mom, Non-human Dad
Hot BloodedTropes of LegendFoe Yay
Hiding Behind ReligionNo Real Life Examples, PleaseHolier Than Thou
Holy Shit QuotientYMMVHumor Dissonance
Tear JerkerOverdosed TropesExactly What It Says on the Tin

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