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{{quote|''"Hey, a free drink is a free drink, baby."''|'''[[Burn Notice|Sam Axe]]''' on infiltrating a gay bar.}}
[[Ho Yay]] is a same-gender relationship that seems to be more than 'just good friends'. [[Foe Yay]] is when two people seem to be more than just ''mortal enemies.'' [[Faux Yay]] is when a character pretends to be homosexual for some reason, or acts in a homoerotic or romantic way with someone else of the same sex as themselves.
One of the most common flavors is when two girls [[Les Yay|start kissing and acting a little too friendly]] just for the sake of [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot|gratuitous titillation]], which in real life is known as "club lesbianism" due to party girls often doing this at the [[Coolest Club Ever]].
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== Film ==
* The French film ''[[The Closet]]'' features the main character trying to save his job by pretending to be gay and suing for discrimination, involving photoshopping his head onto images of homosexual men being intimate.
** The entire scheme is concocted by his neighbor {{spoiler|a man who was fired from the same company years earlier for actually being gay.}}
* The main character in ''Folle d'elle'', aka, ''What I Did For Love'' pretends to be homosexual so he can share an apartment with a woman he's interested in.
* [[Mel Gibson]]'s character in ''[[What Women Want]]'' tries to save a girl's feelings by telling her that he is gay, and that this is why he never called her back.
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** While not done intentionally, Turk and JD often act in a very intimate way with each other, parodied in the [[Musical Episode]] with the song, ''Guy Love''. This is somewhat ironic as both characters have been shown to be a tiny bit homophobic (an entire episode is devoted to Turk's homophobia in season 3).
* In one episode of ''[[Not Going Out]]'', Lucy thinks she's offended a gay friend, so she gets her flatmate to pretend to be gay so she can show how tolerant she is:
{{quote|'''Lucy:''' Oh come on! I'd do the same for you! I mean, I can't think of any situation in which me pretending to be lesbian would help you at all...
''(Lee [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot|sinks into thought]])'' <br />
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** This one has an extra layer to it as the guy Lucy thought she'd offended wasn't even gay himself. [[Sorry, I'm Gay|He'd said that to spare the feelings of a woman who was attracted to him]].
* The Australian proto-reality show ''House From Hell'' offered a monetary incentive to the first housemates to have sex in the house; in response, two of the female contestants invoked this trope, faking a sexual experience to get the cash.
* An early ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|Mash]]'' episode involves Hawkeye trying to get some leave in Tokyo by telling a visiting psychiatrist that he has a homosexual crush on Major Burns.
** Another early episode has Hawkeye telling a visiting soldier (played by [[Leslie Nielsen]]) that Frank has a crush on ''him''.
* On ''[[Three's Company]]'', Jack pretends to be gay to be allowed to share an apartment with two female roommates.
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* Happens frequently on ''[[NCIS]]'' between "very special agents" Tony DiNozzo and Timothy McGee.
* The first ''[[Blackadder]]'' series has an episode where Blackadder is due to marry an ugly Spanish princess and, following Baldrick's advice, attempts to get out of it by swishing around in effeminate clothing and makeup. The plan backfires when the princess assumes he's trying to please her by imitating a Spanish man.
* Craig Ferguson on the ''Late Late Show'', played for laughs.
* ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]'': In the midst of canvassing for suspects, Lake and Finn get [[Mistaken for Gay]]. Instead of trying to explain the situation Lake just smiles, puts a hand on Finn's leg and squeezes.
* Moss [[Fake-Out Make-Out|makes out]] with Roy [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a375fMUzVc&feature=fvw twice] in one episode of ''[[The IT Crowd]]'', in an attempt to hide from passing police cars.
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** Similarly, [[The Veronicas]], who play up the [[Twincest]].
* The [[Village People]]. Note that some group members were straight and others ''were'' gay.
* Possibly [[David Bowie]]; over time, he has gone back and forth over what his sexual orientation is. That said some of his characters, most notably Ziggy Stardust, ''were'' definitely gay or bisexual.
* Mexican singer and showman Juan Gabriel is ''very'' famous for his [[Camp Gay]] stage antics. He never mentions his ''real'' sexual orientation, however.
* [[Frankie Goes to Hollywood]] gained notoriety and coverage using the gay vibe. Of the five of them, only Holly Johnson and Paul Rutherford were actually gay.
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** Not to mention Blixa's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHHiKE2QqRw live cover] of Peggy Lee's "Johnny Guitar."
* [[Gackt]] knows how to feed his fangirls, as evidenced by this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr1iujcd3-A live version of Vanilla].
* While the men of [[Barenaked Ladies]] are happily married dads, that didn't stop guitarist Ed Robinson and former lead singer Steven Page from occasionally dancing together and stage kissing.
* Bands engaging in Stage Gay at various times include: [[Panic! at the Disco]], [[My Chemical Romance]] ([http://pic37.flodeo.com/photos/37/AE/AJ/CheMiiCaLeRaWaYiieRo/10017598-11875808.jpg 1], [http://www.so-bad.net/lj/mcrp/45.gif 2])(the gayest members of which have all now married hot women, go figure), [http://www.freewebs.com/emo_guys_kissing/bertquinn.jpg The Used]...
** In recent years, pretty much every male-fronted band without a macho or wholesome image to keep up will do this. Thank [[David Bowie]].
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* In the book ''Light My Fire,'' Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek say that drummer John Densmore did this to avoid being drafted.
* [[Gabriel Iglesias]], in his special "I'm Not Fat.. I'm Fluffy", talked about getting drunk in El Paso and ending up at a gay club. When he realized where he was and realized that guys were checking him out, he embraced it, putting his hands on his hips and going "Shoot..." in fairly [[Camp Gay|camp]] manor. He even went so far as to call his girlfriend to say, "You better not mess up, because I have options."
* The famous [[David Tennant]] / [[John Barrowman]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfq5UAk1Bxc kiss] although this is less "pretending to be gay" as "[[Pandering to the Base|driving]] the [[Fan Girl|fangirls]] [[Squee|insane]]."
* Similarly, [[Jared Padalecki]] does this, both to drive fangirls insane and to play pranks on his ''Supernatural'' costars. The blooper reels are filled with ass-slapping, kissy faces, and general sillyness.
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