All the Good Men Are Gay: Difference between revisions

== Film ==

* Happens -- oh so much -- in ''Love and Other Disasters''.

* In a rare gender swap of this, the main character of ''[[Chasing Amy]]'' finally finds the perfect girl for himself: she's smart, funny, attractive, witty, creative, and talented. But she's a lesbian.

* Played for laughs in ''In and Out'', where after Emily (played by Joan Cusack) finds out {{spoiler|her fiancee is actually gay}}, she hits on another man, who also is gay. The result is a bit of a [[Heroic BSOD]] and the Crowning Moment of Funny in the movie.

* In ''[[Clueless]]'', the female main character falls for an attractive male classmate, who turns out to be gay.

* Happens in many a [[Lifetime Movie of the Week]] film.

== Live-Action TV ==

{{quote| Every time I meet a man, he's either gay or a bear.}}

** Also used almost unchanged in ''[[Devil Fish]]''':

{{quote| "Every time I met a man, he's either married, gay, or getting eaten by a giant octopus."}}

{{quote| "Every time I meet a guy, he's either gay or Batman...[[Ho Yay|sometimes both!"]]}}

* ''[[Frasier]]'' episode "Out With Dad". [[Sorry, I'm Gay|Martin pretends to be gay, to fend off the advances of an older woman.]] When asked by her daughter, she sighs, "Opera queen" in a tone that clearly states they're quite common. Subverted when Martin's gay act makes him a perfect target for the daughter's uncle.

** It must be noted that Martin only goes along with her when she assumes he's gay when he stumbles over why he can't date her.

{{quote| '''Donna''': 'All the decent men are on the other bus.'<br />

'''The Tenth Doctor''': 'Or Time Lords.' (Make of ''that'' what you will.) }}

* On ''[[Eureka]]'', after discovering that her [[New Old Flame]] is actually a [[Ridiculously Human Robot]], Jo complains that all the good ones are "either married, gay, or robots".

* Subverted by the ''[[Modern Family]]'' third-season episode "Treehouse". After inverting [[Sorry, I'm Gay]] when Cameron wins a bet with Mitchell and their likewise-gay friend Longinus by getting a woman at the bar to give him her phone number (funnier still when you keep in mind that Eric Stonestreet is straight in real life), Cameron winds up getting close enough to her to not want to let her know until Mitchell shames him into doing it. But when he does, after hiding any evidence of Mitchell or Lily from their apartment before she comes over, {{spoiler|it turns out that she knew all along; [[Pet Homosexual|she just wanted to have a gay male friend because it would be cool]]. He then rebukes her for viewing him through a tropish lens (perhaps angry that his portrayal didn't fool her)}}, and then just as Mitchell returns the episode subverts its own subversion: [[Crowning Moment of Funny|she makes the angry, hurt speech you'd expect if the show had simply played the trope (ahem) straight]].

== Video Games ==

== Web Comics ==

** Notable for her having just told her mother [[Accidental Truth|that Justin was gay so he could stay the night.]]

** Later, after Justin becomes popular around school for beating up a fire monster, it comes up again.

'''Girl 2:''' Don't you already have a boyfriend?<br />

'''Girl 1:''' Of course I do. [[Right Behind Me|He's right here]].<br />

* Fletcher of ''[[Nothing Nice to Say]]'' actively attacks this trope in one strip, when a woman at a bar utters it practically word for word. His response? "You mean, why are the only guys you find non-threatening the ones with no possible ulterior motives to sleep with you? Yeah, the mind boggles." Fletcher is, perhaps rather obviously, far from the best example to the contrary of this trope...

* Played with in ''[http://artblock-go.smackjeeves.com/ Girls Only]'', where at a school with over 400 girls and 32 men, they only ''think'' that the men are all gay. It turns out, they're actually straight, they just like to pretend so that their fanservice they deal out allows them to be given better treatment.

== Web Original ==

** Of course, most of them are both.

** Serenity mentions this at the end of her FAQ mini-episode. She thinks Bakura sounds like a jerk, but [[Evil Brit|his accent is hot]] - unfortunately, he already has dinner plans with Marik.

== Western Animation ==

** The gang is at a club, and Bender's built in gaydar shoots down the girls' hopes when they see good looking men. ...Or he's getting interference from a gay weather balloon.

** A [[Gym Bunny]] comes along and tries to wrest Leela away from Fry, but when Fry just gives up because he reckons it's already half-hopeless between him and Leela anyway, the other guy reveals he's a professional beach bully; a guy like Fry ponies up a couple hundred bucks, the muscular guy comes along and starts hitting on the nerd's girlfriend, then backs down when the nerd stands up to him in a staged fight, and the bully leaves with the girlfriend duly impressed. Leela decides she really does prefer the bully, and guess what: [[Sorry, I'm Gay|He's gay.]]

** Another one had a waitress lament that "All the good men are either gay or have no face!" [[It Makes Sense in Context]]. (Granted, she was saying this about a paroled criminal and Sideshow Bob, so she's not exactly the best judge of character).

* Inverted in ''[[The Critic]]''. '''''Everyone''''' assumes Jay is gay, despite his insistence he's not. Love interest Alice tells her ex-husband (who is hitting on her) that Jay is not gay, then sings to Jay later: