Gay Groom in a White Tux: Difference between revisions

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This is a trope about fictional portrayals of gay men's weddings, in which one of them will invariably be wearing a white tuxedo, and the other a black tuxedo. The reason for this trope is that a white tuxedo functions as a man's take on the bride's white dress. Sometimes, a [[Gender Flip]] will be seen in which two women marry and one of them, usually a [[Butch Lesbian]], wears [[Hot Chick in A Badass Suit|a black tuxedo or skirt suit]] while the other, often a [[Lipstick Lesbian]], wears a traditional wedding dress.

This is a trope about fictional portrayals of gay men's weddings, in which one of them will invariably be wearing a white tuxedo, and the other a black tuxedo. The reason for this trope is that a white tuxedo functions as a man's take on the bride's white dress. Sometimes, a [[Gender Flip]] will be seen in which two women marry and one of them, usually a [[Butch Lesbian]], wears [[Hot Chick in a Badass Suit|a black tuxedo or skirt suit]] while the other, often a [[Lipstick Lesbian]], wears a traditional wedding dress.

The trope can carry the [[Unfortunate Implication]] that the partners are being/going to be shoehorned into the same roles and dynamics as a stereotypical heterosexual relationship. Many gay couples in [[Real Life]] avoid this simply by dressing the same or at least not following the black/white dynamic. But since there's no clear-cut image in the mainstream consciousness of what a gay wedding is suppose to look like, such couples arguably have more freedom than straights in picking and choosing which traditions to keep or discard.

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== [[Film]] ==

* ''[[Sex and ~~The~~ City]] 2'' uses this in the wedding of the main characters' two [[Gay Best Friend|Gay Best Friends]].

* ''[[Sex and the City]] 2'' uses this in the wedding of the main characters' two [[Gay Best Friend|Gay Best Friends]].

* ''[[I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry]]''

* Strange variant in the ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]'', when a wedding march plays and Rocky and Frank N. Furter walk off to Rocky's room together. Frank N. Furter is wearing female lingerie, and Rocky is wearing male.

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== [[Western Animation]] ==

* Subverted in ''[[~~South Park (Animation)|~~South Park]]'': Big Gay Al and Mr. Slave ''both'' wear dresses when they get married.

* Subverted in ''[[South Park]]'': Big Gay Al and Mr. Slave ''both'' wear dresses when they get married.