History HoYay / OtherMedia

* Advertising/KevinButler in the UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 commercials seems to have a bit of a thing for Jack Tretton, President of the SCEA. If you look carefully, almost every single commercial has a picture of Jack somewhere in it, he plays ''VideoGame/ModNationRacers'' with him and after losing, comments 'Let's not make it weird Jack.' And then there's the latest commercial, where his return to Sony is opened with him looking longingly at a picture of Jack and saying 'You are the boss of me.'

* The 2018 reunion of [[Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling NJPW's]] Golden Lovers tag team (Wrestling/KotaIbushi and Wrestling/KennyOmega) was very much framed as a reunion of former romantic partners. And that's before Wrestling/{{Cody|Rhodes}} kissed Kota on-screen to make Kenny jealous. In fact, Kenny retweeted a Twitter thread that called the storyline "a happy gay romance".

%% * JustForFun/TropeTan and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipe-tan Wikipe-tan]]. Also counts as FoeYay.

* In the story of Amaterasu and the Cave, the titular sun goddess runs away to sulk in a cave after her brother kills one of her servants (whom she may or may not have been in a relationship with. Did we mention the servant was female?). Having the literal sun leave to sulk in a cave is obviously pretty bad for the rest of the world, so the other gods try to lure her out. First with a bunch of roosters ([[IncrediblyLamePun a cocktease]], if you will). This did not work. The next plan involve tricking her into seeing her own reflections. The reason this was supposed to work varies, but it did not. Their final plan is to go get local fun goddess and party girl Ama-no-uzume and get her to lure out Amaterasu with a ''striptease''. They make enough noise to get Amaterasu to stick her head out, upon which she sees the naked goddess, and [[DoubleEntendre comes out]] [[WebAnimation/OverlySarcasticProductions for real]]. [[DoubleEntendre And that is how Ama-no-uzume gets the sun to rise]].

* In ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'', Beetle and Sarge have their moments, though this may or may not be intentional.
** In a comic, Sarge and Cookie. Some [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/BeetleBaileyHoYay.jpg homoerotic tones into this one strip]]. It ''really'' looks like Sarge... towards Cookie... from behind... and then Cookie's voice "gets sweet"... [[NoYay AGH]].
** Blatant HoYay is nothing new for this comic, as [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/omgsuchhoyay_6236.jpg this 1968 strip]] ably demonstrates.
*** [[FridgeBrilliance So]] ''[[FridgeBrilliance that's]]'' [[FridgeBrilliance why he had a heart tattoo on his arm!]]
*** There is a strip that closes up on the heart, and it says... [[ShipSinking Patty]]. [[note]] Though it was a punchline of a one-off joke regarding Cookie having served a lot of patties recently, and she's never seen in person nor mentioned again).[[/note]]
** And then there are the times where it goes from being {{subtext}} to just being...[[http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b398/ninetails2000/content.gif Text....]]
* Even animals aren't immune. Lots of ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' merchandise featuring [[http://www.garfieldposters.com/shop/catalog_regular.asp?action=1&catalog_unique={48E16DB5-A2C4-455E-8FD0-DD7376772455}&product_unique={CF1E15BC-57EB-4A5F-A84F-74EFE609BDD9} him and Odie]] [[http://www.garfieldposters.com/shop/catalog_regular.asp?show=8&page=3&action=1&catalog_unique={48E16DB5-A2C4-455E-8FD0-DD7376772455}&product_unique={03EAEDC0-6480-427C-AC61-15B1551200A0} seems to be trying to cater to this]]. (Why? Either RuleOfFunny or a very [[{{Squick}} squicky]] scenario.)
** [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2008/ga081214.gif The December 14, 2008 strip]]. Oh my god...
*** There is a strip where Jon has hung up a mistletoe over his door in order to kiss the first person to ring the bell. Said person is the mailman. Garfield's response[[note]]beware, it's translated from swedish back to english[[/note]] "You two look really cute together!"

* The Finnish newspaper comic ''Nanna'' takes this trope far enough to be somewhere between HideYourLesbians and TransparentCloset. The main characters, Hanna and Ritu are "roommates" who happen to share a bed (Nanna SleepsInTheNude), and share random shows of affection, up and including Ritu sneaking behind Nanna to kiss her ears.

* [[https://punch.photoshelter.com/image?_bqG=146&_bqH=eJzzTErVTY4vy8szL4j3ds9INct1MjEx964s83K0MrSwtDI0MABhIOkZ7xLsbOudmFmcWqQdnpmTkZqTq.3pqQYWj3f0c7EtAbJDg12D4j1dbENBerK8sjJNg5LycjzT1eIdnUNsi1MTi5IzABLAI8Q- This]] political cartoon from ''Magazine/{{Punch}}'' has Britannia and Colonia sharing a rather romantic dance, with each of them saying dialogue that amounts to "you're the only one I need". Granted, they're the {{anthropomorphic personification}}s of the United Kingdom and its various colonies, respectively, but it still comes off as ''very'' Sapphic.

* Unulfo -who isn't at all helped by the fact he's a lyric counter-tenor- in Rodelinda has in various productions to have an unhealthy attraction to his master king Bertarido -the lines "If I save my lord, my heart wants nothing more" sung in a mezzo-soprano voice leave very little to imagination-; some directors have even paired him up with the bad baritone Garibaldo.

* In Verdi's ''Don Carlo'', Carlo has to give up the woman he loves (to a political marriage to ''his father!''), so he and his devoted friend Rodrigo decide to go fight for Flemish independence from Spain, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93Cg25lNVkQ in a splendid duet]][[note]]"We swear to live and die together/joined on earth and in heaven..."[[/note]]. Rodrigo eventually [[DiedInYourArmsTonight dies in Carlo's arms.]] In former times this was perfectly aboveboard. Today, it's [[http://bit.ly/1ILcBB5 just another slash pairing]].

* The Warwick University Rowing Club's Men's Rowing Team [[http://www.buzzfeed.com/mattbellassai/the-naked-british-rowing-team-strips-down-again-for-a-whole calendar]].{{NSFW}}

* A Chinese textbook used in some Australian universities features a scene of example dialogue, the accompanying video of which is glorious in its HoYay overtones. An effeminate man walks into his roommate's room completely uninvited or unprovoked, ''[[BigLippedAlligatorMoment hangs a pot plant on the ceiling]]'', strides over to his sleeping roomate, bends over to get in close, and starts stroking his roommate's face. The roommate then wakes up and the not even vaguely related conversation in Chinese ensues, and they're still fairly close together throughout the entire thing. Somehow, the textbook itself only improves on this: it depicts the sleeping man with no shirt. Truly, this is an achievement in the realm of TextbookHumor.

* In the Christmas overlay of Disneyland's ''Ride/TheHauntedMansion'', Madame Leota recites, instead of her classical incantation, a ghostly parody of "The Twelve Days of Christmas", titled "The Thirteen Days of Christmas", with various words throughout the poem being replaced by similar-sounding ones associated with ghost stories. For instance, "my true love" is replaced with "my ghoul friend". Why this crosses ([[AccidentalInnuendo probably accidentally]]) into this trope is because "ghoul friend" had already been used in earlier Mansion merchandise as the ghosts' punny version of ''girlfriend''.

** Also they lack genitalia so it would be [[{{Asexuality}} asexual]] HoYay at the most.

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* ''Animation/LinkClick'' has its own page.

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* Liaoyuan Huo and Lu Bu clearly are after Xiao Meng in ''Manhua/RavagesOfTime''. Xiao Meng is also clearly in love with Huo [[spoiler:and they had a LastKiss before Xiao Meng dies tragically in battle]].
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* ''Literature/{{Id}}'' with ''any'' guy that thinks he's an attractive female. And then there's his relationship with Grey, who constantly tries to spend the night together, alone with him, and "teach him things."
* ''Manhwa/CielTheLastAutumnStory'': Right from the start, Daughter and January have a lot of it, and it only gets more and more blatant as the story progresses. [[spoiler: It finally goes from [[RelationshipUpgrade subtext to outright text]] in volume 14.]]
** January also has some with Tenial, who frequently comes across as a little ''too'' interested in working with him.
** There's also a lot of LesYay in the form of pretty much every pair of witches. The most obvious examples are Yvienne and Lariatte, [[SchoolgirlLesbians Ecliche and Judith]], and [[DestructiveRomance Augustine and Saskia]].
* ''Manhwa/DearMyGirls'': A one-sided one with Ravin to Adrian, who is not amused. Granted, Ravin did think that Adrian was a girl when the latter was younger - boys wore dresses when they were that age.
* There's a lot of strong subtext in ''Manhwa/DemonDiary'' though it's all entirely innocent.
* ''Running On Empty'' is a shonen-ai manhwa about a suicidal teen who gets abducted by a falsely accused gang member. Naturally it's full of HoYay.
* ''Manhwa/ImAtEndOfYourSight'' is BoysLoveGenre {{manhwa}}, so is full of this.
* Plenty In ''Manhwa/KillMeKissMe'': Kai sure does want Ghoon-Hahm to kiss his boots... And his obsession with hurting Jung-Woo, whom he constantly refers to as "pretty" and "the Prince". It also sounds almost as if he has this impression of Ghoon-Hahm and Jung-Woo.
** Yeong Joon and Jin Lee are canonically gay and in a relationship.
** In-universe example: The Pretty Boy Fanclub get Ghoon-Hahm and Jung-Woo to act like this in order to take photographs.
** Several people mistake Ghoon-Hahm and Jung-Woo for a couple, although admittedly a few of them were likely joking.
** Jung-Woo and Ghoon-Hahm have a lot of close moments for rivals in love. Jung-Woo even starts sleeping over at Ghoon-Hahm's house from the fourth book onwards, a fact which makes Que-Min think interesting things about the two of them.
** Half of the male named population of the game think Jung-Woo pretty enough to be flirt with.
** Toyed with in regards to Kun and Ga-Woon - while Ga-Woon thinks that Tae is a boy, Kun proceeds to tease and kiss "him" knowing that he's a girl. Ga-Woon views it as this.
* ''Manhwa/LetDai'' is another shonen-ai manhwa.
* Frank and Rai in ''Webcomic/{{Noblesse}}''.
* Lots in the ''Manhwa/TheTarotCafe'' due to EveryoneIsBi.
* In the official French translation of ''Manhwa/WitchHunter'' the attachment from Xing to Tasha is admitted to be romantic.

* In ''Webcomic/OrangeMarmalade'' Si-Hoo, a vampire, is instantly attracted to Jae-min and, while he says he's only interested in Jae-min's blood, he does start stalking him and [[IfItsYouItsOkay to swing that way for him]].

* Peppermint Patty and Marcie from ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''. This was [[LampshadeHanging pointed out and played with]] on two ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketches (one with Rachel Dratch as Marcie telling Ted Koppel about how Peppermint Patty wasn't going to marry her, and again in a sketch about newspaper comic characters having a meeting on what to do to make print media more relevant in a world where people are relying more and more on TV and the Internet to get their news where Peppermint Patty and Marcie [played by Kristen Wiig and short-lived feature player Michaela Watkins] making out for no reason other than the fact that [back then] it's 2009 and they should be free and open with their sexual orientation), a ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' sketch, was referenced in a throwaway reference gag in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', and it's implied that they're married in the webcomic ''Webcomic/AndShineHeavenNow''.
** Magazine/{{Mad}} had a parody strip where the two ran off to San Francisco together, with Marcie making a Melissa Ethridge mix tape for the trip.
** ''And'' in a strip of ''ComicStrip/TheBoondocks'': '''Jasmine:''' Hey, Daddy? Peppermint Patty and her friend Marcie kinda remind me of Auntie and her 'special friend."
** Charles Schultz based Peppermint Patty on his friend Billie Jean King, one of the most famous [[LesbianJock Lesbian Jocks]] in the world.
** A twenty-something Marcie [[LawyerFriendlyCameo turns up]] in the Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}, and is openly bisexual, [[AnythingThatMoves four women topping her dance card]] for most of ''Webcomic/ItsWalky'' Sadly, [[WildMassGuessing unless she grew up to be]] [[{{Shorttank}} Guns]] (one of the four), Patty is nowhere to be seen.

* In Rossini's "La Cenerentola" (Opera version of Cinderella), the incessant boot-licking on part of the evil stepfather don Magnifico to Dandini (the valet passing from the Prince, all too often camped up as is to be expected from his name), crowning just before Dandini reveals his true identity, when Magnifico, exasperated that the "Prince" won't tell him which of his two daughters he's going to marry, but rambles on about what a bizarre case he is exclaims "Well then, do you want to marry me?"

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* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m83m6GlRmcc#t=1m52s this clip]] from ''Sunrise On 7'', men's water polo looks and sounds like a homoerotic sport to reporter Edwina Barthowlmew. Braxton calls water polo "a mix of soccer, wrestling, swimming and hardcore gay fetish porn" and she [[http://braxtonssportsblogaboutsports.com/2012/08/10/underwater-speedo-soccer elaborates in more detail]] on her blog.
* The [[{{Kayfabe}} "sport"]] of ProfessionalWrestling may have a significantly inherent element of homoeroticism, since the typical match consists of two muscular, sweaty men [[BelligerentSexualTension who claim to hate one another]] stripping down to small clothes and grappling at each other but amateur wrestling is actually [[http://straightmendont.wordpress.com/2011/10/05/wrestle more homoerotic]].
* In rugby, players often engage in a lot of physical contact and rip each other's clothes off as [[http://www.buzzfeed.com/mattbellassai/definitive-proof-that-rugby-is-the-best-sport-for-butts shown here]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmAhlrT2xcg here]] and [[http://vamonoslibrarian.blogspot.com/2011/09/eye-on-sports-rugby-world-cup.html explained here]].(mildly {{NSFW}})
* UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball has muscular men piling up on each other, grabbing each other's butts and then getting naked in the locker room.
* UsefulNotes/AustralianRulesFootball is very similar to UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball and rugby in terms of men grabbing and piling on top of each other, but in even skimpier clothing, given the uniform typically consists of [[SleevesAreForWimps tank tops]] and [[WhoWearsShortShorts short shorts]].
* [[http://straightmendont.wordpress.com/2011/09/18/play-volleyball This blog]] describes beach volleyball as a homoerotic sport. However, when a pickup volleyball game is coed, the game in question would be full of bi-yay.
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** Ken as portrayed in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' is CampStraight from here to Malibu. He's even the current page image!

* ''HoYay/TheBreaker'' has its own page.
* ''HoYay/WitchHunter'' has its own page.

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* [[http://www.commercialcloset.org/ This website]] collects any and all LGBT advertisements.

* Aleksandr and Sergei, the star meerkats of the Advertising/CompareTheMeerkat campaign, have gradually evolved from a MeanBoss and BeleagueredBureaucrat dynamic to acting like a married couple. The Meerkat Movies campaign has them frequently go on movie dates -- Sergei even [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dCUyLDtyQk gives up a date]] with Creator/NicoleKidman so he can go with Aleksandr instead, and [[https://youtu.be/jaBMzFbYsiY?list=PLwXZZd-7fH2sdII40JxWbI9g0z_Ug8Xlm in a later ad]], Aleksandr becomes very forlorn when Sergei is missing from the house. [[https://youtu.be/Y0mNC66dHGU Another ad]] has them accidentally reenact the ''Film/Titanic1997'' "king of the world" pose, with Sergei holding on to Aleksandr long enough to make Aleksandr feel awkward. They even engage in PlatonicCoParenting when they adopt the baby pup Oleg (as well as Oleg's friend Ayana later on).

** There's a Czech car ad with a salesman asking why the customer wants this car while they're in each other's personal space, and are in stances that look like they're about to make out. Featuring these lines:

** And then there are the times where it goes from being [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar subtext]] to just being...[[http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b398/ninetails2000/content.gif Text....]]

* Considering the fact that ''ComicStrip/KrazyKat'' never establishes the titular character's gender, it's a distinct possibility that the story's pivotal {{love triangle}} is entirely male. [[QueerRomance Which would make this another trope entirely.]] This strip started ''[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar in 1917]]''.