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Not to be confused with [[Cure Your Gays|Straight Camp]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
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* Pegasus from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (Anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh]]''. In fact, his being straight is part of his whole motivation - he's trying to revive his dead wife, Cecellia. Yet he still manages to be the most fabulous character on the show.
* Marquis Andrea Cavalcanti/Benedetto of ''[[Gankutsuou]]''.
* 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
* Ruby from ''[[Pokémon Special]]''. His [[Catch Phrase]] is "Beautiful~" accompanied by [[Bishie Sparkle]], but he admits his attraction to [[Wild Child|Sapphire]].
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* Narumi from [[Gakuen Alice]]
* Kazuma aka Sheila from ''[[Aishite Night]]''. He's very feminine-looking and crossdresses when on stage... and he's also [[Happily Married]] to his manager Marimo and has a daughter with her.
* Due to the frequent amount of [[Ho Yay]] found in the series, several characters from ''[[Code Geass]]'' could easily be mistaken for gay due to their... ''theatrical''... [[Large Ham|mannerisms]]. Especially Lelouch, who is ''[[Memetic Mutation|~FABULOUS~]]''. That being said, most of the characters in the show are paired off, or implied to be, in heterosexual relationships (except for a single character who has [[Psycho Lesbian|nothing to do with this trope]]). The Camp Straight is largely caused by several factors. One being that Japan likes it's characters to be [[Bishonen]] with [[Wangst|lots of introspection and inner turmoil]]. Another is that the main character, most of his family, and several of the supporting cast are [[Large Ham|very good at being dramatic]]. As well, the Britannian characters are basically pulled directly from stereotypes concerning royalty and the nobility from the height of the age of absolutism, as a result, a number of characters are [[The Dandy]]. This is of course ignoring the fact that Lelouch is a chick magnet (in and out of the series), his father has [[
** Being a chick magnet doesn't prove your interest. We didn't see Lelouch having interest in girls before the infamous "comfort me" scene in R2 (there is also the siscon interpretation, of course). Take this scene from the show, and Lelouch can be gay or asexual.
*** You're forgetting several of his scenes with Shirley and C.C., not to mention calling Euphie his "first love". The asexual or "hetero, but emotionally fucked up" angles seem most likely overall.
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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
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* 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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* ''[[Frasier]]'':
** 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]]'':
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* JD, the protagonist on ''[[Scrubs]]'' acts like this often, especially in the middle seasons.
* [[The Wire|The Bunk]] is undoubtedly straight, having been seen trying to drunkenly pick up women in bars. But he's very comfortable with his heterosexuality - to the point where he's willing to offer backrubs to his male colleagues.
* This is a running joke on ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway? (TV)|Whose Line Is It Anyway]]''. The guys in the cast love to flirt outrageously with each other and even kiss on occasion, but most of them are married.
* On ''[[Babylon 5 (TV)|Babylon 5]]'', a Centauri nobleman flounces through several episodes before being appointed as Regent, at which point he makes his first decision from a position of real authority: he will redecorate the Imperial Palace...in pastels.
** The Regent isn't explicitly straight, though, is he? He's never seen with any romantic partner, female or male.
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* ''[[Ace Attorney (Visual Novel)|Ace Attorney]]'': Max Galactica, a stage magician who wears makeup and a purple uniform with no shirt and several white roses. The fact that he's trying to get Regina to marry him marks him as one of the 100% straight people in the game...which is kind of weird. On the other hand, he does seem to joke-flirt with Phoenix a bit...he could be [[Bi the Way|bi]] but ultimately monogamous. It also helps that he only acts flamboyant as part of his job. He lapses back into his real identity of Billy Bob Johns several times. Of course, he does seem to ''prefer'' being Max Galactica.
* Alfred Ashford from ''[[Resident Evil]]'' seems to be this. [[Squick|If you really want]] [[Twincest|to think about it]].
* In ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]] Girl's Side'', artsy guy Mihara Shiki has a distinctly flamboyant (and often frilly) fashion sense, and thinks nothing of announcing himself a fairy prince or putting on a [[Pimped
* [[Wholesome Crossdresser|Bridget]] from ''[[Guilty Gear]]'' wears female clothing, acts in an effeminate manner and has a shrill voice. However, it's been confirmed he's heterosexual.
* ''[[Tekken]]'': By all indications, Lee Chaolan is this. In fact, ignoring the unicorn on his jacket and his voice, it's odd that anyone thinks he's gay, what with being knee-deep in bikini-clad chicks all. the. time. His special arena in ''Tekken 5'' is a pool, emptied of the water, with him sitting on the sidelines (unless he's in the fight) while girls in bikinis lounge all over him.
* ''[[Katamari Damacy]]'': The [[King of All Cosmos]] from the series.
* ''[[Disgaea]]'' has the very camp, very [[The Dandy|dandy]] [[Disgaea Hour of Darkness (Video Game)/Characters|Mid-Boss]]. Not only was he married (he's a widower), {{spoiler|he has a son: [[Luke, I Am Your Father|Laharl]]}}.
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda Oracle Games (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages]]''
** Ralph wears purple-trimmed flares, and his character art shows him in a hip-jutting pose only accented by said fabulous clothing and green nail polish (look closely!). But he spends the entire game fretting over his childhood friend Nayru, [[MacGuffin Girl|the titular Oracle]].
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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 (Web Video)|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!:
** 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
{{quote| '''Bakura:''' I'm not gay, I'm just British! <br />
'''Florence:''' I'm not British, I'm just gay. }}
* Hoity Toity moves from "camp" to "camp straight" in the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' fanfic "Dance 'Til We're High". Twilight's first thought after Rarity admits that's who she's dating is "''Hoity Toity likes mares?!''"
* Enoriel from [[Reflets D Acide]] is [[Elfeminate]], seems [[Ambiguously Gay]] and keeps being criticized for that by Zarakai... yet he is revealed to once have {{spoiler|[[The Dragon|Alia]][[Dark Action Girl|-Aenor]]}} as his girlfriend.
* Much like a female [[Ed Wood]], [[Obscurus Lupa]] is straight, but likes to dress like men (ie. [[The Cinema Snob (Web Video)|The Cinema Snob]], Radu from ''[[Subspecies]]'').
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