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{{trope}}
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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
Contrast [[Straight Gay]].
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* 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 ''[[
* Ayame Sohma from ''[[Fruits Basket]]'' ''may'' be Camp Bi. He dresses fabulously at all times, flirts outrageously with his old (male) friend and cousin, Shigure, runs a dressmaker's/cosplay shop and sees no problem with testing out his wares on himself -- but is sweet on his [[Moe]] assistant, and {{spoiler|when his curse breaks, he [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|tells her that he was born solely to love her]].}}
** He kind of has motivation to be as gay as he can manage--after all, gays with the Suoh curse can have perfectly normal romantic lives, (or could if Akito weren't around being psycho), since the transformation thing is linked to gender, not turn-ons.
* Kuranosuke from [[Kuragehime]] qualifies for this... hard.
* Pegasus from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (
* Marquis Andrea Cavalcanti/Benedetto of ''[[Gankutsuou]]''.
* James of ''[[Pokémon (
* 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 One Half]]'' 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.
* ''[[
* 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 ''[[
* Ukiyo from ''[[Samurai
* 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.
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** 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.
* Depending on your interpretation, the characters from ''[[
* ''[[Bleach]]'':
** Luppi. Despite his flamboyance, he flirts with Rangiku at one point.
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== Films -- Animation ==
* Ken in ''[[Toy Story 3]]''. There are so many jokes made regarding his sexuality, including having girly handwriting and [[Always Camp]] tastes. Yet he falls in love with [[Barbie]] [[Love At First Sight|at first sight]].
* Yao of ''[[
* Prince Charming of ''[[Shrek]]''.
* Jack Skellington of ''[[
* ''[[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
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** Don't forget how he [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|molests the statue of Justice]].
* Played [[Incredibly Lame Pun|straight]] in ''[[Snakes
* All of the male villains in ''The Apple''. No, really, all of them. [http://www.coolcinematrash.com/wp-content/gallery/the-apple/apple1.jpg Mr. Boogalow], [http://www.coolcinematrash.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/9.jpg Dandi], and especially Shake, [http://bp0.blogger.com/_v94HclVn6hA/R1bOOhLu6AI/AAAAAAAABMY/4q4Zfog3fGA/s400/Apple001.JPG here with Boogalow].
* Gender Flipped in ''[[But I'm a Cheerleader]]'', when the most overtly butch girl there was the only one that was actually straight.
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* 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.
* In the short film ''Un beau jour un coiffeur'' (''One Fine Day a Hairdresser'') the main character falls in love with a rather camp male hairdresser only to have his hopes dashed when the hairdresser asks him for help talking to a girl he likes.
* Not likely intentional, but Duckie from ''[[
== Literature ==
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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 ''[[
* 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.
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** Eric Idle played [[Camp Gay]] or [[Ambiguously Gay]] roles (or at least slightly effeminate ones), but is in fact straight.
* [http://www.nndb.com/people/384/000049237/ According to the NNDB], Christopher Lowell is straight, but acts flaming because he knows no-one would believe an interior designer isn't gay, and wanted to preempt the ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' jokes.
** Similarly, on ''Cash out. This is the financial equivalent of shooting yourself in the foot, since you pay income taxes plus a 10% penalty if you're under 59-1/2, and you diminish your retirement savings. ''[[
* ''[[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
* ''[[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.
** And before that, for several seasons, he was married to a woman back in America. And [[Real Men Wear Pink|despite wearing drag, his general behavior was pretty masculine as well]], unless he was trying to convince a visiting officer of his insanity.
* ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'': Lyle the Effeminate Heterosexual, as well as Mango.
* ''[[
* 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 ''[[
* Larry, the middle son on ''[[The War
* Nevel of ''iCarly'' acts pretty camp, but has a [[Villainous Crush]] on Carly.
* A two-part episode of ''[[Reno
* ''[[
* Subverted in ''[[
* 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.
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* [[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 (
** Maybe more like Camp Asexual, but Sheldon certainly qualifies.
* 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?
* On ''[[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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* 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.
* ''[[
** Kryten in his Series 2 appearance. He's extremely camp but is well meaning and tries to treat his (all-female, and dead) crew right. After his actor changes and he's "reprogrammed" the only hints of his previous manner is his obsession with cleaning. We know he's straight because his fantasy partner is a female version of himself (in Series 4's Camille). Had David Ross returned to play Kryten things would probably have been different.
** The Cat. Totally fixated on his looks, encyclopedic knowledge of clothing styles, perfect judge of colors and whether they match or clash... and absolutely determined to find himself a girlfriend, even going rollerskating through the empty ship with a bouquet in hopes he'll randomly stumble across a female.
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[
* Julius from ''[[Harvest Moon]]: Tree of Tranquility'' is one of these. He looks like a woman and is ''extremely'' camp (his favorite items are perfume and jewelry), but you can marry him. And he's pretty [[Happily Married]] to you, too.
** From the same series, [[The Slacker|Rock]] will often mention how much he loves fashion, but he's not nearly as camp as Julius.
** Add to the list, fey [[Gonk|homunculus]] Howard from ''The Tale of Two Towns'', father of bachelorette Laney, disher of gossip and [[Real Men Wear Pink|lover of all things pink.]]
* ''[[Space Channel 5]]'' Part 2 has Purge, a villain who wears a suit of PURPLE DISCO MIRRORS under his cloak and wears eyeliner. However he hits on Ulala so many times, it becomes clear that he's straight.
* ''[[
* 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-Out Dress]] during the school's Culture Festival. However, he shows no interest in guys, and is one of the heroine's main love interest options.
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* ''[[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
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Oracle
** 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]].
** Tingle dresses in extremely tight spandex, moves and speaks quite flamboyantly, and believes that he is a fairy. However, the Tingle RPG reveals that he is actually quite obsessed with women.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Noah in ''[[
{{quote| '''Noah''':I have been told I could make straight men see rainbows.}}
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== Web Original ==
* 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.
* ''[[
* ''[[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]].
{{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
* 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. [[
== Western Animation ==
* Ceviche and his instructor Paté in ''[[
* ''[[
** 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 ''[[
* ''[[
** 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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** Peggy's hairdresser in a Christmas episode. The way he looks and speaks just screams [[Camp Gay]]. Even Peggy thinks so...until she visits his home and meets his [[Happily Married|wife and child.]]
** Also Bobby Hill. He's constantly showing interest in feminine activities, but he's still completely straight. Then again, he is just thirteen, so who knows.
* 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
* ''[[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:
* 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.
** Sideshow Bob has a definite love of musical theatre and definitely keeps up with his appearance but has a wife and child.
** Even before he married, Sideshow Bob's use of this trope was almost certainly just a shout out to Frasier/Cheers.
* Dukey from ''[[
* Cupid from ''[[
* Shifty Dingo from [[Blinky Bill]] is most definitely a Camp Straight cute young boy. He skips around with flowers, shows an interest in helping his sister Daisy Dingo out at the beauty salon and he cries at the drop of a hat. He also has quite some romantic subtext with Nutsy.
* [[The Load|Vernon Fenwick]] from ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987
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* 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
* [[Prince]], who famously swathes himself in purple phallic symbols and yet is an almost [[Memetic Sex God|memetic Lothario]] to the ladies.
* Possibly Ryan from ''[[The Real World]]: New Orleans''. However, to many, his sexuality is still in question.
* Alejandro Sergi, frontman of the Argentine pop band ''Miranda!''. He has a very girly voice (to the point anyone who listens to Miranda! without watching the videos would think it's a woman the main voice of the band), dislikes playing soccer, and likes to paint himself. However, he [[Berserk Button|gets really mad when people start asking him if he's gay]], and his campness is done in homage to Freddy Mercury, David Bowie and Prince.
* Frank Skinner is straight?!? He sounds about as camp as a 60s British comedy star.
* In dating book '''[[The Game (
* Nick Swardson. The fact that he [[Reno 911|played a gay prostitute on TV doesn't help to clear matters]].
* The late [[Tiny Tim]], novelty act and a walking encyclopedia of period songs (especially ones from the early 20th century). Like Liberace, he was a devout Christian and somewhat conservative (at least as far as abortion was concerned), but he was also very eccentric, cheerful, flamboyant, and often behaved rather effeminately.
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** Also Season 10's Paul Mcdonald. Known for flamboyant suits, dancing with a tambourine and being married to [[Twilight|Nikki Reed]]
* Probably [[Michael Jackson]], although his sexuality still remains something of a mystery.
* Japanese musician Takanori Nishikawa, better known by his stage name; T.M.Revolution is the absolute ''epitome'' of this trope, [http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/media/images/TMR.jpg taking a] [http://thumbnail.image.rakuten.co.jp/@0_mall/epony/cabinet/calendar/img55702546.jpg look] [http://img.blogs.yahoo.co.jp/ybi/1/0e/78/baasan91/folder/1106165/img_1106165_22775610_0?1221391114 at him], you could be forgiven for thinking "Dude's gay" but not only is he straight, he was even ''married'' at one point (to [[Puffy AmiYumi|Yumi Yoshimura]]) and is very open about his relationships with women, claiming his flamboyant looks are simply part of his [[Doing It for
* Olly Murs from [[The X Factor]]'s 2009 series. He has no qualms about breaking into a dance when he sings and has a slightly flamboyant performing style, but admits to having trouble getting dates because girls think he's gay.
* Little Jimmy Urine, lead singer of Mindless Self Indulgence, can easily be misconstrued as gay, what with his tendency to wear fairy wings onstage, his spiky pink hair, revealing pink clothing, song titles such as "Dicks are for my Friends," and "Faggot"...the list goes on. He is however, actually married to a woman (Chantal Claret, lead singer of [[Morning Wood]]).
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