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Sitting on the opposite end of the spectrum from [[Camp Gay]],
A character who is
This is a stereotype more associated with modern gay porn, but is also a certain distilled ideal of gay men that appeals more often to other gay
Compare with [[Invisible to Gaydar]]. If the character is stereotypically [[Camp]] or [[Played for Laughs]], then he's actually [[Macho Camp]]. May be [[The Bear]], a [[Big Beautiful Man]], a [[Leather Man]] or a [[Gay Cowboy]]. Many a [[Gayngster]] qualifies. May also be an [[Armored Closet Gay]]. Is also commonly a [[Badass Gay]]. See also [[Bara Genre]], the genre where Manly Gay men... have fun with one another. Also see [[Lipstick Lesbian]] for this trope's [[Distaff Counterpart]].
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== [[Fan Fiction]] ==
* [[Superhero]] [[Slash Fic
* Parodied in [http://lexhibition.livejournal.com/69412.html this fic].
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* [[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
* [[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 as an Orgy|that one]].
* I give you [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twQlpFrm5iM Bear Force 1]
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== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* Many [[Professional Wrestling|professional wrestlers]] get accused of being Manly Gays (must have something to do with the oiled-up muscleman physiques and those tight trunks), but the WWE tag team of Billy and Chuck actually had being [[Ambiguously Gay|ambiguously]]
* There is one case where a professional wrestler who DID came as gay in Real Life, [[Darren Young (Wrestling)|
== [[Stand Up Comedy]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* [[Star Fox (series)|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
* [[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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* [[The Bear]] Community is often associated with this trope, but not strictly so. Bears are only required to be gay ''[[Carpet of Virility|hairy]]'' men, but can otherwise be any other kind of gay trope including [[Camp Gay]] or [[Leather Man]].
* Walt Whitman.
* Anderson Cooper and Bradley Cooper, two Coopers rumored to be gay. (Anderson lives with his manly gay partner in New
* Rob Halford of Judas Priest, the most badass metal singer to ever live, happens to be gay. Everyone [[Transparent Closet|already knew it]], he just didn't feel the need to admit it publically for years.
* Rock Hudson was the picture of manliness in the 50s. So much so, that his agent Henry Willson did everything in his power to stop the tabloids from ruining that image, go so far as to throw his other clients to the tabloids rather than let them get their hands on Rock Hudson's dirty little secret. He finally quelled the rumors in the form of [[The Beard|a beard]] named Phyllis Gates. They married and had two kids, but their marriage lasted less than 3 years when she found out he had an affair with another man. But with a divorce under his belt, Hudson was in the clear. Some even speculated that Phyllis went along with the charade for so long because she was a closet lesbian and he was her merkin (the lesbian version of a Beard).
* Rugby players [http://www.newsphotos.com.au/ImageDetail.asp?RefNum=97098163 Ian Roberts] and [[wikipedia:Gareth Thomas (rugby player)|Gareth Thomas]]
* English Columnist and provocateur [http://www.marksimpson.com Mark Simpson], who coined the term [[Camp Straight|"Metrosexual"]] as a ''derision'' and suffered the subsequent [[Insult Backfire]], lies somewhere between this and [[Invisible to Gaydar]].
* ''The Butch Factor'' is a documentary that analyzes the aspect of masculinity in gay culture. It has good examples of manly gays as well as some [[Invisible to Gaydar|straight-acting]] and [[Camp Gay
* [[Monty Python|Graham Chapman]] took one look at the camp stereotype, said "No, thank you" and took up rock climbing, pipe smoking and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|being a doctor]]. He also liked playing rugby and by most counts was pretty good at it.
* [[John Barrowman]]. He had to be, considering he's from [[Violent Glaswegian|Glasgow]]. Didn't stop him from making his name in the theatre, and he's known to switch between this and [[Camp Gay]] depending on the situation.
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** 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 ''[[The 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>
* [[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.
** Incidentally, Alexander could have been a
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