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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:
  • 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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