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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[All in The Family]]'': On the program that broke all previous barriers and taboos, one of the earliest came in the Season 1 episode "Judging Books by Covers." Archie is annoyed by one of Mike's outlandish friends (Anthony Geary, long before he played Luke on ''[[General Hospital]]''), [[Camp Straight|who acts and dresses effeminitly but was otherwise heterosexual]]; in fact, Archie is so irritated he goes off to Kelsey's Bar – its first appearance in the series – to vent to his friends about gay people. One of the people involved in the conversation is a middle-aged man, a one-time football player who has normal male interests ... and is a homosexual. No male-on-male affection is shown in the episode, but Archie does learn that outward appearances do not necessarily mean someone is gay or straight.
* Barca from ''[[Spartacus: Blood and Sand]]'' is a solid example.
** And his boyfriend, Auctus, from the [[Prequel]].
* [[Badass|Omar]] from ''[[The Wire]]'' is a very good example of this trope.
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== [[Music]] ==
* [[Electric Six]] also did [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTN6Du3MCgI&feature=related a Manly Gay video].
* "[[Heavy Metal (Music)|Metal]] God" Rob Halford of [[Judas Priest (Music)|Judas Priest]].
* [[Black Metal]] performer Gaahl of Gorgoroth and Gaahlskagg fame.
* The [[Village People]] were this when they were released. Though as their act has aged and become more retroactively [[Camp]], it has become more passably [[Macho Camp]] in retrospect.
** It should be noted that the [[Village People]] were not ''always'' recognized as [[Manly Gay]] early on, because general American culture at the time was relatively more macho than it is now. This misunderstanding was what allowed the U.S. Department of Defense to commission the song "In the Navy", unaware at the time of the Village People's Manly Gay stage persona. Planned recruitment advertisements built around the song were scrapped at the last minute when the Pentagon finally realized this. By the time the Village People had passed the peak of their popularity, they were better understood as Manly Gay, but their music had already entered pop culture, with most of the backlash against them being part of the greater general backlash against [[Disco]] (which as a genre was already partially rooted in gay culture) in the late [[The Seventies|1970s]] and early [[The Eighties|1980s]]. And yet the Village People were still not yet ''quite'' [[Macho Camp]] -- this only came with age as their style became more and more dated in comparison with the contemporary years that passed.
* [[Rammstein (Music)|Rammstein]]'s steamy and highly controversial video of song "Mann Gegen Mann" features nothing but a bunch particularly manly men engaging in a kinda... special party. Yes, [[A Party - Also Known Asas an Orgy|that one]].
* I give you [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twQlpFrm5iM Bear Force 1]
* [[Queen]]'s Freddie Mercury; even during his more effeminate period in the 70s, he had [[Perma Stubble]] and a [[Virility Carpet]] that would put [[Sean Connery]] to shame.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* [[Star Fox (Video Gameseries)|Wolf O'Donnell]] is going to [[Memetic Molester|tan your hide]]. Wolf is written as a homoerotically aggressive [[Big Badass Wolf|dominant alpha male]], invoking Japanese [[Manly Gay]] tropes along with being a [[Testosterone Poisoning|hypermasculine]] [[Mr. Fanservice]]. To cap it all off, his appearance is accentuated to scream a variety of gay stereotypes, including [[Leather Man|leather]], and (in ''[[Super Smash Bros]] Brawl'') [[Gay Cowboy|chaps]] over his pants, and a just-barely-conspicuous touch of [[Macho Camp]] pink and purple in his color scheme.
* [[Street Fighter|Zangief]] is a good example of this. It's not outright confirmed he's gay but many of his win quotes hints towards this.
 
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* ''[[There Will Be Brawl]]'' does this to [[F -Zero|Captain]] [[Super Smash Bros|Falcon]], who is [[Kid Icarus|Pit's]] lover and ''extremely'' [[Badass]]. "Maybe later you could come by and... [[Catch Phrase|show me your moves]]."
* Frost from ''[[Trinton Chronicles]]'' fits this troupe well being a muscled guy with a masculine set of traits and yet still being into other men.
* Practically everything created by [[Captain Ger Bear]], especially of [[The Bear]] variety.
* ''[[Shadow of the Templar]]'' had Simon, the protaganist as this - he's an ''FBI agent'', for crying out loud. The antagonist, Jeremy, and later Simon's lover, is...less so, despite also being very bad-ass.
* The artwork of David Kawena from [[Deviant ART]], famous for his "Disney Princes" series.
* Most parodic interpretations suggest that [[He -Man and Thethe Masters of Thethe Universe|He-Man]] is this.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Jean and Paul from ''[[Superjail (Animation)|Superjail]]'', the gay couple, will constantly remind the audience of their gang origins. Remember, they're in prison. They have to be tough. Paul threatened Jean by telling him that he once cut off a guy's dick and stuck it down his throat for disagreeing with him.
* How can anyone forget [[The Simpsons|DUFFMAN!]]
 
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* King Richard the Lionheart of England. He took this trope [[Up to Eleven]], since he was more of a [[Blood Knight]].
** King Edward II of England, although he was less successful as a general than his great-grand-uncle.
* Japanese writer [[Yukio Mishima]], praising the manly ideal of the samurai. It is likely that Mishima, who fervently admired the ancient samurai, based his vision on the ''[[HagakureThe (Literature)Hagakure|Hagakure]]'''s concept of "pure love" ("burning hearts" in the ''Hagakure'') between men, which was at the time - at least in the work of prominent authors such as Jôchô Yamamoto - considered superior in terms of pureness and virility to heterosexual love (thus deemed necessary to some extent in order to guarantee the perpetuation of the clan's bloodline). Although Mishima himself did not advocate such a "hierarchy" among relationships, he married only to please his parents and stipulated that his wife must not have any interest or involvement in his work.
* A serving US Marine recently got himself hauled up before a court martial for appearing in a gay porn film while wearing part of his uniform<ref>But not ''all'' his uniform, so the Corps decided he'd only [[Incredibly Lame Pun|bent]] the rules</ref>. <ref> Besides, being known throughout the Corps as the leatherneck who appeared in a gay porn film is probably punishment enough.</ref>
* [[wikipedia:Sacred Band of Thebes|The Theban Sacred Band]] makes this trope Older Than Feudalism. They were an elite 300-strong unit made up entirely of homosexual couples, the logic being that soldiers would fight harder if their lovers were in battle next to them. Until Alexander the Great came along, they were unbeatable.
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