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Some shows purposely do this to [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|insert a gay character (or increasingly to insert a]] [[Once-Acceptable Targets|''stereotypical'' gay character)]] without annoying the [[Moral Guardians]]. Today, we call this person a metrosexual: a straight guy who acts gay. This kind of character also has some [[Values Dissonance]] involved. In the past, this kind of behavior was associated with people like [[The Dandy]], and it was a symptom of them being [[Casanova|ladykillers]], not a contraindication to it.
There isn't an obvious female equivalent of this trope, as [[The Ladette]], the closest thing we have to a straight [[Butch Lesbian]], is heavily sexualized.
Compare [[Ambiguously Gay]], [[Mistaken for Gay]], [[Faux Yay]], [[Gay Bravado]]. For many of these fellows an argument can be made for Camp Bi. If a character isn't quite 'camp' but still undeniably girly, he may be [[In Touch with His Feminine Side]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
* Amaterasu dis Grand Grees Eydas IV of [[The Five Star Stories]] - you know you're '''fabulous''' when a female [[Artificial Human|Fatima]] becomes your body double and nobody notices anything different.
* Tamaki Suoh from ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]''. But then again, he's the self-proclaimed "Dad" to the group, while Kyouya's the "Mom." Make of that what you will.
* Takuto from ''[[Star Driver]]''. He's officially the ''[[Bishounen|Galactic Pretty Boy]], for crying out loud''!
* Guiche from ''[[Zero no Tsukaima]]''.
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* James of ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]''. He's flamboyant, crossdresses, and campy but has shown interest in the opposite gender several times. Compare his taste in [[Paper-Thin Disguise]] to that of his female partner in crime [http://gamerisms.tumblr.com/tagged/fuck-the-gender-binary as shown here]. Okay, there were those "Flaming Moltres" jokes...
* Ruby from ''[[Pokémon Special]]''. His [[Catch Phrase]] is "Beautiful~" accompanied by [[Bishie Sparkle]], but he admits his attraction to [[Wild Child|Sapphire]].
** Wallace too, since he's shown to be in love with Winona.
* Tsubasa Kurenai of ''[[Ranma ½]]'' habitually dresses like a girl, looks rather girly even when not wearing a dress, and acts kinda flamboyantly. But he's definitely heterosexual, what with his blatant crush on Ukyo. In the official English sub of the anime, he actually gets asked outright if he's gay and replies he's straight, but likes to dress up.
* ''[[Sensual Phrase]]'': Kazuto aka Towa, who in the manga is dating his stylist and [[Victorious Childhood Friend]] Miya.
* Yuda/Juda from ''[[Hokuto no Ken]]'', who wears makeup and frequently parades around in his underpants and talks about how beautiful he is. He's straight, though, and has a harem full of women, even if he does make some questionable comments about how beautiful Rei is.
* You can't possiblity take one look at Parco Folgore from ''[[Zatch Bell]]'' and honestly believe that not only is he completely straight, but the biggest womanizer in the series.
** He even sings about breasts. Well, in the original version...
* Zarbon in ''[[Dragon Ball|Dragon Ball Z]]'' is a [[The Fighting Narcissist|narcissistic]] pretty-boy, but never gets anywhere beyond [[Ambiguously Gay]].
* Ukiyo from ''[[Samurai 7]]''.
* Narumi from [[Gakuen Alice]]
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* ''[[Megamind]]''. That guy has [[Ho Yay]], [[Foe Yay]] or both with pretty much every guy in the movie, and yet he {{spoiler|never gets explicit about any of them in that way}} (Dreamworks kids' movie, remember?) and actually {{spoiler|ends up with Roxanne by the end of the movie following a naturally progressing relationship}} (so no [[Last-Minute Hookup]] there).
* Shakey from [[Alpha and Omega]], a runty Omega wolf who wears flowers around his neck and cries at weddings. He loves hanging out with a couple of wolven [[Granola Girl|Granola Girls]].
* Kuzko from ''[[The Emperor's New Groove|The Emperors New Groove]]'' and ''[[The Emperor's New School|The Emperors New School]]'' is very flamboyant but has feelings for a girl in the spinoff.
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* Gender Flipped in ''[[But I'm a Cheerleader]]'', when the most overtly butch girl there was the only one that was actually straight.
* In "Beauty Shop", all the stylists besides Lynn assume that James, their only male hairstylist, is gay, until he asks Lynn to dance.
* Ryan Evans of ''[[High School Musical]]'', though he's canonically gay in the stage version.
* The eponymous villain in ''[[The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T]]''.
* In the movie ''Designing Woman'', one of Marilla's friends (played by real-life choreographer Jack Cole) is a flamboyant choreographer who, after some thinly veiled remarks about his sexuality, produces photos of his wife and sons from his wallet.
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* ''[[Prince Roger]]'' is an athletic [[Long-Haired Pretty Boy]] with an obsessive interest in fashion, and who also appears totally uninterested in women. His [[Old Retainer|manservant]] Kostas has been asked questions about the prince's sexuality so many times he just laughs at it.
* Hilariously played with in [[Dresden Files|The Dresden Files]]: Thomas, a White Court vampire who feeds off intimacy acts like this (and takes on a French accent) in his job as a hairdresser, feeding a little off the women whose hair he does, because women believe that the only good male hairdressers are gay and/or European. There's even [[Ho Yay]] between Thomas and Harry, with Thomas calling Harry "dear" in front of others and Harry pretending to be Thomas' flamboyant boyfriend when he's caught breaking into Thomas' apartment. {{spoiler|However, they are half-brothers.}}
* A variant in ''[[Good Omens]]'' -- Aziraphale comes off "gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide," but [[Our Angels Are Different|as an angel]] he's actually closer to being a literal [[Asexuality|asexual]] unless he ''wants'' to be something else.
* One of the many characters in the [[Deathstalker]] series is an incredibly foppish aristocrat. Kind of a subversion in that {{spoiler|that's just his public persona, he's also the incredibly deadly masked champion of the galactic arena. Once things go to heck, he stops with the fop}}.
* In the Peach Keepers, Sebastian is assumed to be gay by everyone because of his flamboyancy in high school, despite his abstinence from relationships at all in the present day. This causes some angst for Paxton, who finds herself madly in love with him.
* Dandelion the Bard from ''[[The Witcher]]'' novels and games is a prissy fop who dresses colourfully and has a personality very close to [[Camp Gay]] - but he's a veritable [[The Casanova|Casanova]] who can't keep his pants on in the presence of pretty ladies, and often finds himself in trouble with angry husbands and suitors.
* [[Intrepid Merchant|Rogue Trader Tobias Maxilla]] from [[Eisenhorn]]. Always ridiculously overdressed, prissy speech patterns, flappy gestures...and flirts with every woman he meets. This is arguably [[Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?|a disguise]]...for an exclusive [[Robosexual|machine fetishism]]. His entire crew are [[Wetware CPU|servitors]] and [[Cyborg|Cyborgs]], a large number of them crafted to resemble metal statues of female nudes...
* In ''[[Wild Cards]]'', Dr.Tachyon as an alien aristocrat dresses ''very'' flamboyantly and behaves similarly. Fortunato considers and calls him "alien faggot".
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''
** In the sketch "Biggles Dictates a Letter", Biggles (Graham Chapman) asks Algy (who is sort of a [[Sergeant Rock]]) and Ginger ("camp flying gear, sequins, eye make-up, silver stars on his cheeks") if either is gay. Algy is the [[Straight Gay]], while Ginger is the Camp Straight. The latter is lampshaded by Biggles.
{{quote|'''Biggles:''' Oh thank god for that. Good lad, stout fellow, backbone of England. ''(Ginger Leaves)'' Funny... He ''looks'' like a pouf. <ref>Chapman disliked [[Camp Gay]] stereotypes, and took on a [[Straight Gay]] persona to rail against it.</ref>}}
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** Frasier and Niles Crane. Artsy, flamboyant, and completely hetero. Actor David Hyde Pierce, who played Niles, actually '''is''' gay in [[Real Life]]. Lampshaded a few times, especially the ski lodge episode. Niles usually gets this a bit more than Frasier; the episode where Frasier is accidentally set up with his [[Straight Gay]] new boss ends with the boss genially and easily accepting that Frasier isn't actually gay, but incredulous when he learns that Niles is also not gay.
** Gil Chesterton, who is very flamboyant, but states in one episode that he's [[Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy|married to a butch biker chick]]. Of course, this is [[Ret Conned]] at the end of a later episode, in which he enters a gay club. (The simplest explanation is that he's in a [[Transparent Closet]] and his wife is [[The Beard]].)
* On a ''[[Sex and the City]]'' episode, Charlotte becomes best buds with a pastry chef -- she thinks she's his new [[Fag Hag]] till he kisses her.
* ''[[MASH]]'':
** Maxwell Klinger tries to get a section 8 discharge through rather flamboyant and campy transvestitism -- which is an integral part of his personality for the first few seasons. He's not trying to appear gay, he's trying to appear crazy. He eventually falls in love with and marries a Korean woman.
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* ''[[Three's Company]]'' has Jack Tripper, who is pretending to be gay so The Ropers wouldn't kick him out for living with two women.
* Brazilian sitcom ''Toma Lá Dá Cá'' has Ladir, husband of the condominium's administrator, who dresses and talks as gay as possible (and even used to have a cross-dressing performance as "Dirla"...), but his wife states that he has "too much testosterone".
* Fez from ''[[That '70s Show]]'', though it has been hinted from time to time that he's [[Even the Guys Want Him|attracted to Kelso]].
* Charlie Harper from ''[[Two and A Half Men]]'' fits this well, to the point of having gay guys hit on him. Despite the fact he is meticulous about his appearance, once having a breakdown when his housekeeper got him the wrong hair conditioner, his womanizing ways are well documented. His brother, Alan, fits this trope even better.
* In ''[[The Thin Blue Line]]'', Constable Kevin Goody exhibits all the mannerisms of a [[Camp Gay]] (his actor, James Dreyfuss, fits this trope in [[Real Life]]) but is actually a [[Dogged Nice Guy]] to WPC Habib, whom he hits on in every episode.
* James of ''[[Big Time Rush]]''
* Larry, the middle son on ''[[The War at Home]]'', alarms his [[All in The Family|Archie Bunker]]-like father with his non-macho behavior, such as participating in the school musical and dressing as a woman (although most of his schemes are attempts to get girls), and he suspects that he and his nerdy best friend, Kenny, are more than friends. Turns out Larry's straight... {{spoiler|but Kenny ain't.}}
* Nevel of ''iCarly'' acts pretty camp, but has a [[Villainous Crush]] on Carly.
* A two-part episode of ''[[Reno 911|Reno 911!]]'' featured [[Camp Gay]] Lieutenant Dangle's ex-wife (whose second husband was also gay) introducing her third husband, who was played by [[The Kids in The Hall|Scott Thompson]] playing an average Scott Thompson character. Later on, Deputy Junior reveals he saw the ex-wife and said husband engaging in heated sexual intercourse before they entered the building.
* ''[[The A-Team]]'': Although perhaps not perceived that way at the time, Face can be seen this way (or at least more like [[Ambiguously Gay]]) in retrospect: for instance, he loves designer clothing and [[Legally Blonde|can name the labels]] ("Gucci shoes") and was once show taking over half an hour to get ready in the morning.
* Subverted in ''[[Extras]]'' by Bunny the theater choreographer, who appears to be this way for a while, until it's revealed that he's simply closeted.
* Martin Short's [[Fat Suit]] character Jiminy Glick is flamboyantly fey, and married...and prone to give too much information talking of physical relations with his wife.
* In ''[[The Nanny]]'', Fran meets a pretty-boy male nanny, and assumes he must be gay. Her reasoning: "For one, [[Incompatible Orientation|I was instantly attracted to him]]!" Then, as she's trying on clothes in front of him, he starts kissing her.
{{quote|'''Fran''': "Oh my God, you're not gay?!"}}
** [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: Fran Drescher and her real life husband divorced after 20+ years of marriage. He later comes out as gay. They are still [[Platonic Life Partners|best friends]].
* [[Friends|Chandler Bing]] is consistently mistaken for gay (he has a "quality"). As the show progressed, his character became more and more feminine. The show's creators pondered whether to out him, but in the end decided he was just metrosexual before that was cool.
* In TV gardening show ''[[Ground Force]]'', presenter Alan Titchmarsh is the metrosexual, rather fey, Camp Straight, preferring to sit down with an artist's pad and watercolours and sketch out his design for the new garden... set next to big macho builder and co-presenter [[Handy Man|Tommy Walsh]], the contrast becomes even more marked.
* Raj in ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'' enjoys chick flicks, ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]],'' girly music etc., has several pretty blatant [[Ho Yay]] and even a [[Heterosexual Life Partner]] but is shown at various points flirting with attractive women, including [[Summer Glau]], and in one episode he sleeps with Penny.
** Maybe more like Camp Asexual, but Sheldon certainly qualifies.
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* Gunther on ''[[Shake It Up]]'' is very flamboyant and loves wearing sparkly tight clothes, but in one episode he has a crush on a girl and asks Ty for help to get her. In fact, Ty basically told Gunther not to be as flamboyant.
* In an episode of ''[[Bones]]'', Brennan and Booth are questioning a fashion designer's assistant who at first appears to be of the [[Camp Gay]] variety. Later on, he casually mentions his wife, which prompts Brennan to [[No Social Skills|bluntly]] tell him that she thought he was gay. He's not offended, though, and claims it's common for people to assume that. In fact, this got him laid a lot in high school and college.
** There was another case with a Camp Straight wedding planner, who admitted to having slept with the victim.
* Perry Pearl on ''[[The Class (TV series)|The Class]]'' is an excellent example. As is his father-in-law.
* ''[[Red Dwarf]]'':
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== Newspaper Comics ==
* Binkley in ''[[Bloom County]]'', whose goal in life is, depending on the comic, either to become a hairdresser or to dance the lead in ''[[Swan Lake]]''. One of his recurrent hangups is worrying that girls find him to be a poor kisser (or would, if he ever had the courage to kiss one).
* Satchel Pooch from ''[[Get Fuzzy]]''. He dresses up as Little Bo Peep for Halloween, likes hair gel and shiny clothes, refers to his new [[Barbra Streisand]] album as "faaabulous", and wears a pink workout headband. However, he has been shown to have crushes on various female characters and celebrities
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Noah in ''[[El Goonish Shive]]''. Elliot has trouble pegging him as a guy at first and is astonished to hear he has a girlfriend.
{{quote|'''Noah''':I have been told I could make straight men see rainbows.}}
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* Remi Pierce of ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' version 4, [[We Hardly Knew Ye|from what we know of him]], is more of a Camp [[Asexual]] but still fits this trope. It's explained as him playing up this act for laughs and partly to practice his acting skills.
* ''[[Dragon Ball Abridged]]''. Zarbon is so flamboyant that even Frieza abandons important issues like capturing the Dragon Balls and wishing for immortality upon the revelation that he wants to call his girlfriend.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]''
** Pegasus is, believe it or not, even more flamboyant than in the source material. He actually tries to kil - uh, [[Never Say "Die"|send Yugi's friends to the Shadow Realm]] when they discover he's straight lest his secret get out (which makes him a closet heterosexual). In contrast, his servant Croquet is a [[Straight Gay]].
{{quote|'''Pegasus:''' I'm afraid you've all seen too much! I can't have people thinking I'm straight.}}
** Also [[Butt Monkey|Bakura]], in contrast to [[Straight Gay]] [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Florence]].
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** In one episode ''Queer Eye for the Straight Guy'' is the newest popular thing in South Park, and all the men and boys become Camp Straight as a result, with "straight" replacing "gay" as an insult.
** Butters qualifies very well. He is slightly more feminine than the other boys, and this is accentuated by his gentle innocence, but at the same time he has had the most crushes on different girls of any character - not to mention there was ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|the episode where he became a Pimp.]]''
*** Cartman often calls him gay or a fag, but this seems to be a general slur rather than something accurate, used whenever Butters does Cartman doesn't want him to. Indeed, [[Mistaken for Gay|the conversation with his parents]] in "Raisins" seemed to be Matt and Trey [[Word of God|outright stating]] his sexuality, lest fans just assume he was supposed to be gay. ([[Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls|Not that anybody listened]].)
** The one off character Mr. Gueermo from "Elementary School Musical" has a wife and child but he is very flamboyant, effeminate, and weak, he has a love of musicals and wants his son to be a singer instead of a basketball player, and is "abusive" to his wife which consists of lightly slapping. Eventually his wife and son stand up to him and punch him, causing him to cry.
* Odd Della Robbia from ''[[Code Lyoko]]''. Dresses in clashing yellow, pink and purple, dyes and styles his hair, acts very [[Camp Gay|campy]], [[Keet|speaks in a high-pitched voice]]... and has dated [[Kidanova|about every girl in his class, and a few outside of it.]]
* ''[[The Venture Brothers]]''.
** The Monarch. This is also brought up when he expresses his disbelief at someone from Depeche Mode showing up at a party with a girl.
** Pete White is often accused of being gay, both by his best friend Billy and by Shore Leave, but he has shown on a few occasions to prefer ladies.
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* Jimmy from ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'' exhibits a lot of stereotypically gay behaviors, the most memorable being in the Christmas special, where he bakes gingerbread sailors on shore leave. He also enjoys painting and making other various pieces of art, has a substantial collection of stuffed animals, wears curlers to bed, bakes soufflé, has taught a tai chi class, and chose a day with Sarah and Nazz over go-karting. However, he has a pretty obvious crush on his best friend Sarah and was shown to be jealous of Double Dee when Sarah developed a crush on him.
* Pinky Dalton, a character from ''The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound'', a made for TV cartoon film, was apparently built on this very trope....in ''1988''. Just within just the first 30 minutes we find out that not only does he [[Real Men Wear Pink|always wear pink]], but his favorite drink is a Shirley Temple with two cherries, he often poses femininely, loves ballet, regularly takes bubble baths, and wants to replace the wallpaper at the gang's hideout because it clashes with the drapes. The only thing keeping this example of this trope being used [[Up to Eleven]] is that [[Evil Sounds Deep|his voice is surprisingly deep]].
* ''[[The Smurfs]]'': Vanity Smurf is flamboyant, looks obsessed, and has a flower on his hat. He's rather like a gay stereotype, but he's in love with Smurfette.
* On ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold|Batman the Brave And The Bold]],'' [[The Music Meister]] could probably qualify. On the one hand, [[Villainous Crush|he falls for]] [[Black Canary]]. On the other...well, his power is ''musicals.'' Also, his flamboyant and [[Unlimited Wardrobe|frequently-changing]] outfits and [[Neil Patrick Harris|openly gay voice actor]].
* In-universe example: Milhouse of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' apparently had "flamboyantly homosexual tendencies" as early as kindergarten, but he's had a [[Toy Ship|girlfriend]], has had a long-time crush on Lisa, and thinks that Marge is hot.
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* [[Noel Fielding]]. The clothes, the hair, the Ho Yay, the girlfriend...wait, what?
* Jonathan Harris. [[Lost in Space|Dr. Smith]] his own badself. Married 64 years (until his death). One son. Two grandchildren. Go figure.
* Baz Luhrmann; director of ''[[Moulin Rouge]]''. Very [[Camp]], married to Costuming and Set Designer Catherine Martin.
* [[Real Time with Bill Maher|Bill Maher]] has rather 1960's mannerisms, a slight lisp and a rather lilt to his voice that definitely makes him come off as [[The Dandy]] if not outright [[Camp]]. Bonus points for also being [[Kavorka Man]].
* [[Prince]], who famously swathes himself in purple phallic symbols and yet is an almost [[Memetic Sex God|memetic Lothario]] to the ladies.
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