The Queer Quill
Characterization, narrative and sexuality tropes commonly applied to queer characters, e.g. homosexuals, bisexuals, transgender people, etc. While in the real world, LGBTQ+ persons are just as varied in personality and traits as straight/ . This entry is trivia, which is cool and all, but not a trope. On a work, it goes on the Trivia tab.
Queer Romance
Perhaps you have a male character who is visibly touch-feely towards another male character, while being similarly open in rejecting the advances of any female characters who come his way. Or when the other male characters ogle the resident Ms. The all lesbians want kids trope refers to a plot point wherein two women-love-women WLW characters in a relationship decide that they want often biological children. The plot line typically triggers a response from the other straight women in the series, prompting them to "realize their biological clock".
Mistaken for Gay
Originally treated as a subversion of the standard gay stereotypes, the Straight Gay is a homosexual male or female character who has no camp mannerisms, Butch Lesbian tendencies, or obviously "gay" affectations. In the earliest cases, Straight . Congratulations on liking that trope! For those not in the know, a trope is a recurring theme or motif in books, movies, songs, plays, etc.
LGBT Representation in Media
The Queer Romance trope as used in popular culture. Works that have a same-sex and/or transgender romance as their major theme. In the West, gay and lesbian . I mean, I like guys. I can't help it.
LGBTQIA+ tropes in media
A Cast Full of Gay in real life. It's the part of a major city where its LGBT+ community either lives or visits to party. Rainbow flags hang from the streetlights, and the streets are lined with gay bars, boutiques, trendy cafes, and overpriced . This page is under review in the Trope Repair Shop. Word of Gay examples do not go here: the character's identity must be established within the work itself.
Word of Gay
When Word of God explains that a character was actually LGBTQ+ outside of the series, choosing to portray them as Ambiguously Gay or with an Ambiguous Gender Identity (at most) in the actual story. This may be because of Media Watchdogs, local . . Straight Gay
This page is under review in the Trope Repair Shop. Media with a prominent focus on LGBTQIA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual and/or aromantic) characters and people. . Ambiguously Gay
The Mistaken for Gay trope as used in popular culture. A comedy plot line in which a character wrongly believes another character to be gay, either because . .