Category:Queer As Tropes

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I'm queer. I'm gay. I'm homosexual. I'm a poof, I'm a poofter, I'm a ponce. I'm a bumboy, batty-boy, backside artist, bugger. I'm bent. I am that arse bandit. I lift those shirts. I'm a faggot-ass, fudge-packing, shit-stabbing uphill gardener. I dine at the downstairs restaurant, I dance at the other end of the ballroom. I'm Moses and the parting of the red cheeks. I fuck and I am fucked. I suck and I am sucked. I rim them and wank them, and every single man's had the fucking time of his life. And I am not a pervert. If there's one twisted bastard in this family, it's this little blackmailer here. So congratulations, Thomas. I've just officially outed you.
—Stuart, Queer as Folk

Characterization, narrative and sexuality tropes commonly applied to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transexual or queer characters.

While in the real world, GLBT persons are just as varied in personality and traits as straight ones, it has suited television writers to use common stereotypes for their gay characters in lieu of actually making them "real people". To be fair, gay TV characters in general have become more realistic since the 1990s. But the stereotypes still remain the favorite tool of the hack writer - or the comedy auteur looking to parody or shock.

It's been noted, by the way, that in contrast to gay characters and their stereotypes, bisexual characters are virtually unknown on TV. Writers don't seem to know how to portray them, although when they do appear they tend to be The Casanova or Looking for Love In All the Wrong Places, at best. It's also not uncommon for their same-sex attraction to only be mentioned, while their onscreen love interests are always the opposite sex.

Within media intended for gay audiences, gay writers have their own subculture of stereotypes that occasionally leak into the mainstream.

See Gender and Sexuality Tropes for tropes dealing with sexuality in general.

Trope Name is a pun on the English idiom "there's nowt so queer as folk", used for the trope-subversive show of the same name.

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