Basic Trope: A third party informing someone else that the person they like is gay.
- Straight: Bob asks Alice out. Carol says, "Dude, Alice is a lesbian."
- Exaggerated: Bob asks Alice out. Carol says, "Dude, she's my wife."
- Downplayed: Bob has his suspicions and dials down his flirting a bit just in case, and Carol takes him aside to tell him he's right because she knows he's thinking it.
- Justified: Alice is shy and/or in a homophobic milieu and would not say it out loud.
- Inverted:
- Carol asks Alice out. Bob says, "Girl, she's straight."
- Carol likes Alice, but thinks that Alice is straight. She confides this with Bob, who informs her, "She's a lesbian, you know."
- Alice asks Bob out. Clay says, "Girl, he's gay."
- Subverted:
- Alice: "...You know, from the island of Lesbos!"
- Alice: "I like guys too."
- Double Subverted:
- "...and I'm only attracted to women."
- "...but only platonically."
- Parodied:
- Bob asked Alice out at a lesbian bar. Carol says, "Dude, do you know were we are?"
- Bob runs into Alice and Carol (the latter of whom he knows already) at a bar and asks Carol to introduce them. Carol says, "Dude, she's a lesbian." Bob, undaunted, sits down next to Alice and says, "So, what's Lesbia like then, gorgeous?"
- Zig-Zagged:
- Alice is a median system; some facets are lesbians, some are straight, some are bi. Bob only ever runs into her when a lesbian facet is fronting.
- Alice is abrosexual. Somehow, Bob only runs into her when she's a lesbian.
- Averted:
- Alice is straight or bisexual.
- Alice herself tells Bob "Sorry, I'm Gay."
- Enforced:
- "We need Alice to be a lesbian but not act like a lesbian."
- "We need to sink any possibility of Alice×Bob because we have other plans for them."
- Lampshaded: Bob asks Alice out. Carol says, "Dude, she's a lesbian. I Always Wanted to Say That."
- Invoked: Bob: "I think you're pretty; that probably means you're a lesbian."
- Exploited: Alice informs Bob that Carol is a lesbian in hopes he will rebound to her.
- Defied: "You think I'm going to tell him? No way, this is too funny. I want to see how long it takes him to work it out!"
- Discussed: Bob asks Alice out. Alice tells him Sorry, I'm Gay. Bob's taken aback, not because she's a lesbian but because he didn't think she'd straight up shoot him down like that. Alice notices this and replies, "What, did you really think we were on a sitcom where my friend Carol would have to step in and tell you that for me? Why wouldn't I just tell you myself?"
- Conversed: "It'd be kinda awkward to have to have one of your friends tell someone who's hitting on you that you're gay, wouldn't it?"
- Implied: Bob leaves the room to go to where Alice is. He then comes back to Charlie and says that Bob can't date Alice.
- Deconstructed: Bob is informed that Alice is a lesbian. His response? "Oh, fair enough. What, you thought I should assume that from her haircut? Dude, how homophobic is that? And anyway, I figured she might be bisexual."
- Reconstructed: Turns out she is bisexual, and both Carol and Bob end up in a relationship with her.
- Played for Laughs:
- Bob asks Alice out and is surprised that she's a lesbian even though she's wearing a gay pride shirt and making out with Carol.
- Bob says, "I'm a lesbian, too."
- Played for Drama: Alice and Bob live in a world where homophobia reigns supreme. Bob would have to be a heartless Jerkass not to protect her now.
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