History Main / ManlyGay

* Frost from ''TrintonChronicles'' fits this troupe well being a muscled guy with a masculine set of traits and yet still being into other men.

Manly Gay is also relatively more recognizable in Japanese culture, considering in the not-too-extreme past, many samurai and Buddhist monks of the Edo Period were openly Manly Gay in a testosterone-saturated society. The Meiji Period embraced certain aspects of English Victorian culture in an effort to modernize, but these things did not disappear, only becoming more discreet. Most portrayals of gay characters in Japanese entertainment are either this trope (for sheer {{Badass}}) or MachoCamp (for humor).

A character who is ManlyGay is the complete opposite of the camp stereotype. Typically such characters are large and strong, and shown doing "manly" things like sports and working class jobs. He may have a CarpetOfVirility, he may be a BadAss, or he may have StoutStrength...but regardless of how he got here, the result is the same: Despite being gay (or perhaps ''because of it''), he's manlier than your average straight man.

* Referenced in ''DoctorWho'' using the term "clones" for those sorts of gay people in a reference to the RL American gay community, which refers to them as "Castro clones" because the look was extremely popular in the Castro District of San Francisco.

[[caption-width-right:350:Now ''that's'' a man. [[RatedMForManly He's a man's man]]. [[StupidSexyFlanders He's a man's man's man]]. Are ''[[HoYay you]]'' man enough for him? [[hottip:*:In case you're wondering, no, the picture does not go down any lower. What you see is what you get.]]]]

Can overlap with the HardGay but is still different in that the Hard Gay is still too campy to qualify, despite having a muscular body.

This is not a depiction of homosexuality commonly seen in most media, generally being limited to [[{{Bara}} genres that focus on these characters]] or having a token appearance in [[CastFullOfGay settings where the majority of the cast is gay anyway]]. Sometimes such characters can also be introduced into shows to give us a GayAesop about how [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready gay men don't have to all be flaming queens]] -- though they ''can'' be flaming...[[StupidSexyFlanders hot]].

[[caption-width-right:350:Now ''that's'' a man. [[RatedMForManly He's a man's man]]. [[StupidSexyFlanders He's a man's man's man]]. Are ''[[HoYay you]]'' man enough for him? [[hottip:*:In case you're wondering, no, the picture does not go down any lower.]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Now ''that's'' a man. [[RatedMForManly He's a man's man]]. [[StupidSexyFlanders He's a man's man's man]]. Are ''[[HoYay you]]'' man enough for him?]]

Note that while to many people ManlyGay is a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] or [[InvertedTrope inversion]] of expected tropes, it is not subverted or inverted by its nature. TruthInTelevision is that lots of gay guys are this manly, and it's always been that way (whether open or not). It is [[CoconutEffect the audience]] that expects CampGay SmallReferencePools.

Manly Gay is also relatively more recognizable in Japanese culture, considering in the not-too-extreme past, many samurai and Buddhist monks of the Edo Period were openly Manly Gay. The Meiji Period embraced certain aspects of English Victorian culture in an effort to modernize, but these things did not disappear, only becoming more discreet. Most portrayals of gay characters in Japanese entertainment are either this trope (for sheer {{Badass}}) or MachoCamp (for humor).

Manly Gay is also relatively more recognizable in Japanese culture, considering in the not-too-extreme past, many samurai and Buddhist monks of the Edo Period were openly Manly Gay. The Meiji Period embraced certain aspects of English Victorian culture in an effort to modernize, but these things did not disappear, only becoming more discreet. Most portrayals of gay characters in Japanese entertainment are either this trope or MachoCamp.

Note that while to many people ManlyGay is a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] or [[InvertedTrope inversion]] of expected tropes, it is not subverted or inverted by its nature. TruthInTelevision is that lots of gay guys are this manly, and it's always been that way (whether open or not). It is [[CoconutEffect the audience]] that expects SmallReferencePools.

Manly Gay is also more recognizable in Japanese culture, considering in the not-too-extreme past, many samurai and Buddhist monks of the Edo Period were openly Manly Gay. Most portrayals of gay characters in Japanese entertainment are either this trope or MachoCamp.

* Many [[ProfessionalWrestling professional wrestlers]] get accused of being Manly Gays (must have something to do with the oiled-up muscleman physiques and those tight trunks), but the WWE tag team of Billy and Chuck actually had being [[AmbiguouslyGay ambiguously]] ManlyGay as their gimmick, until they finally came out of the closet... ''as straight''. During a gay wedding ceremony that had been heavily advertised and talked about in the press. Suffice it to say, [[EthicalGuardians [=GLAAD=]]] (who actually endorsed the "wedding") was ''not'' happy with WWE.

A character who is ManlyGay is the complete opposite of the camp stereotype. Typically such characters are large and strong, and shown doing "manly" things like sports and working class jobs. He may have a CarpetOfVirility, he may be a BadAss, or he may have StoutStrength...but regardless of how he got here, the result is the same: Despite being gay, he's manlier than your average straight man.

A character who is ManlyGay is the complete opposite of the camp stereotype. Typically such characters are large and strong, and shown doing "manly" things like sports. He may have a CarpetOfVirility, he may be a BadAss, or he may have StoutStrength...but regardless of how he got here, the result is the same: Despite being gay, he's manlier than your average straight man.

* [[StarFox Wolf O'Donnell]] is going to tan your hide.

* Many [[ProfessionalWrestling professional wrestlers]] get accused of being Manly Gays (must have something to do with the oiled-up muscleman physiques and those tight trunks), but the WWE tag team of Billy and Chuck actually had being [[AmbiguouslyGay ambiguously]] ManlyGay as their gimmick, until they finally came out of the closet... ''as straight''. During a gay wedding ceremony that had been heavily advertised and talked about in the press. Suffice it to say, [=GLAAD=] (who actually endorsed the "wedding") was ''not'' happy with WWE.

* Spike in Robert B Parker's ''Sunny Randall'' books.

Compare and contrast with StraightGay and MachoCamp. May be TheBear or a LeatherMan. Many a {{Gayngster}} qualifies. May also be an ArmoredClosetGay. See also: {{Bara}}, the genre where men of this type...[[IfYouKnowWhatIMean have fun with one another]].

* TomOfFinland (who drew the top picture) was the TropeCodifier of the modern version of the trope.

* The VillagePeople were this when they were released. Though as their act has aged, it has become more passably MachoCamp.

This is not a depiction of homosexuality commonly seen in most media, generally being limited to [[{{Bara}} genres that focus on these characters]] or having a token appearance in [[CastFullOfGay settings where the majority of the cast is gay anyway]]. Sometimes such characters can also be introduced into shows to give us a GayAesop about how [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready gay men don't have to all be flaming queens]].