History PlayingWith / ForcedOutOfTheCloset

** [[TransparentCloset Everyone already knows that Alice is a lesbian.]]

** Bob looks up A. Aaronson and Z. Zzyzwicz in the phone book...and only those two people, although [[DontExplainTheJoke it's made to look like he called everyone in the phone book]]. He then mentions to Charles that A. Aaronson and Z. Zzyzwicz are the two biggest gossips in town, and in an hour, everyone will know.

** Not only does Bob tell Alice's very traditional family that Alice is part of the LGBTQ+,but she is forced out of a literal closet.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Sometimes this trope is parodied,sometimes exaggerated,and sometimes both.

** Bob does not out Alice InUniverse.

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* '''Justified''': Alice gave Bob her permission to tell people, or even asked him to do it.

** Bob [[TragicallyMisguidedFavor seriously thought that he was helping her.]]

** Bob looks up A. Aaronson and Z. Zukowski in the phone book...and only those two people, although [[DontExplainTheJoke it's made to look like he called everyone in the phone book]]. He then mentions to Charles that A. Aaronson and Z. Zukowski are the two biggest gossips in town, and in an hour, everyone will know.

** In a setting where everyone is LGBTQ+ except Bob, Alice tells Bob's [[HasTwoMommies two moms]] behind his back that he's straight.

** Everyone already knows that Alice is a lesbian.

** [[InnocentInsensitive Bob assumes she means she's Greek, and specifically from the island of Lesbos]], not realizing what she ''actually'' meant.

* '''Basic Trope''': An [[QueerAsTropes LGBTQ]] character is forcibly outed to others by someone else or circumstances out of their control.

* '''Subverted''': Although Bob threatens to do this to Alice if she doesn't tell him where the {{MacGuffin}} is, he isn't actually going to do it.

* '''Double Subverted''': Just the threat of Bob telling her very traditional family about her sexuality is enough to cause Alice to panic.

* '''Parodied''': Bob shouts the news over the intercom. Everyone just goes back to what they were doing.

* '''Averted''': Bob does not out Alice InUniverse.

* '''Exploited''': Bob wants Alice to tell him where the {{MacGuffin}} is, so he threatens to expose her deepest secret, one that has potential to bring her great harm if the wrong people were to hear it.

* '''Deconstructed''': Alice is mad that Bob told others without her permission. Those who already know her are either mad that she didn't trust them enough to tell, or bothered by her sexuality. Either way, she ends up getting distanced from most of her friends [[NiceJobBreakingItHero because of Bob's actions]].
** Alice ends up getting [[IHaveNoSon disowned by her traditional family]], or even ''[[HonorRelatedAbuse killed]]'' because of what Bob told them.

* '''Inverted''': Alice tells everyone Bob is straight.

* '''Deconstructed''': Alice is mad that Bob told others without her permission. Those who already know her are either mad that she didn't trust them enough to tell, or bothered by her sexuality. Either way, she ends up getting distanced from most of her friends [[NiceJobBreakingItHero because of Bob's actions]].

* '''Basic Trope''': An [[QueerAsTropes LGBTQ]] character is outed to others by someone else.

** Not only does Bob tell everyone that Alice is part of the LGBTQ+,but she is forced out of a literal closet.
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

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* '''Basic Trope''': An LGBTQ character is outed to others by someone else.

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