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{{quote|''"Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but [[The Drunken Sailor|rum]], [[Manly Gay|sodomy]], and the [[A Taste of the Lash|lash]]."''|'''[[Winston Churchill]],''' unwittingly inspiring a name for an album by the Pogues.<ref>[[Beam Me Up, Scotty|Churchill didn't actually coin this phrase, but certainly wished he did.]]</ref>}}
It's a lonely life in the Navy. Perhaps outside [[Prison Rape]] or [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|single-gender schools]], one of the well-known versions of [[Situational Sexuality]] is in the naval service. For years, men would be left alone together on ships for weeks on end, as female sailors served in a very limited capacity if at all (this is slowly changing), causing these men to have their sexual urges met ''somehow''. This has led to sailors becoming sex symbols among gay men. Definitely [[Truth in Television]] on occasion, and in fiction, a common subtrope of the [[Manly Gay]] and [[
[[Dead Horse Trope|A somewhat outdated trope nowadays]], however, as most military fetishists have been leaning towards the sweaty and [[Perma-Stubble|permastubbled]] soldier or marine as of late.
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== Film ==
* Captain Shakespeare of the ''[[Stardust (film)|Stardust]]'' [[The Movie|film]] (though not the book) is a [[Camp Gay|flamboyantly gay]] secret [[Drag Queen]]. Technically not a Navy man, but a sky pirate. Played by [[Robert De Niro]], of all people!
** It's said DeNiro took the role of Shakespeare out of deep regret at having passed on playing [[Pirates of the Caribbean|Jack Sparrow]]. Make of that what ye will.
* ''[[Top Gun]].'' Yes, they're pilots, but they're still Navy.
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== Video Games ==
* In the video game ''[[Tradewinds]]: Legends'', the burly Berber swordsman Hasan Tazere is a [[
* The trope name is actually a recurring [[Catch Phrase]] in the old ''[[Zork]]'' games.
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* Used in an episode of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' with the Sea Captain, where he was shown purchasing lots of pornography before a long voyage to keep himself and his men straight ... for about five minutes.
{{quote|'''Sea Captain''': "I don't swing that way ... on land!}}
** "Simpson Tide" had the Village People sing on the submarine with Smithers dancing along.
* In some ''[[Popeye]]'' cartoons from WWII era (such as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qfcPJS5IBc "Seeing Red, White and Blue"]), Navy sailors (except Popeye of course) were portrayed as "funny", groping, mincing and occasionally cross-dressing.
* A rather odd version would be Mirage of ''[[Transformers Energon]]'' who is most of the Decepticon navy by virtue of being ''a boat''. He's also completely gay for Megatron.
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