Basic Trope: A character who doesn't realize they're LGBT+ (or come out as LGBT+) until later in life.
- Straight: Carl is 65, and just found out that he is gay. The story is about him accepting his sexuality and coming out.
- Exaggerated:
- Carl is at least 100 years old and is only finding out about his sexuality now.
- All of the elderly people find out that they're LGBT+.
- Downplayed: Carl is 50, and has had a feeling about being bisexual or pansexual for most of his life, and finally comes to terms with his sexuality.
- Justified:
- Due to Values Dissonance, Carl wasn't allowed to come out as LGBT+ when he was younger.
- Alternatively, Carl didn't know anything about the LGBT+ community at all.
- Inverted:
- Carl is a young person that comes out as LGBT+.
- Carl is homophobic.
- Subverted:
- People believe Carl is gay, but in actuality, he's a Camp Straight.
- Or Carl's "coming out" is just a joke by him.
- Double Subverted: He later finds out he's bisexual or pansexual, though.
- Parodied: Carl's dying words are, "Oh, and by the way, I'm gay."
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: No elderly people come out as LGBT+.
- Enforced: "Pretty much any Coming-Out Story features young people, why don't we have an older person for a change to prove that anyone can be LGBT+?"
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: When Carl is 40, he constantly comes out as gay due to the fear that he will be "too old" to come out.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Most of the friends of his age aren't accept Carl due to they grew up in a time when homophobia isn't considered a crime, and they still agree with their values back then.
- Reconstructed: Later, they accept Carl since he is still the same old friend that they know, whether he's gay or not.
- Played for Laughs: Carl comes out, but everyone admits that it was a Transparent Closet anyway.
- Played for Drama: Carl is alienated for coming out as LGBT+.
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