Pet Homosexual: Difference between revisions

* Simon from ''[[As Good as It Gets]]'' is a [[Deconstruction]] of this character type. {{spoiler|essentially what happens when the [[Pet Homosexual]] has a [[Heroic BSOD]] and [[The Dog Bites Back|starts biting back]]. }}

* Dan in ''Over Her Dead Body''. {{spoiler|Subversion; he's not actually gay. Ashley assumed he was, and he went with it to stay close to her. She treated him like a [[Pet Homosexual]] for years, though.}}

* ''[[L.A. Story]]'' is a rare example of a straight male lead with a ''Lesbian'' Best Friend (technically her orientation is never mentioned but it is clear which way she swings). In an interesting and revealing contrast to the standard [[Pet Homosexual]], Ariel's sex life is never discussed on screen but she is shown living with a partner.

* Jack from ''[[Will and Grace]]'' is treated as Karen's [[Pet Homosexual]].

* Marc St. James from ''[[Ugly Betty]]'' is Wilhelmina Slater's [[Pet Homosexual]] - to such an extent that she once turned to him and cried "Fly, my pretty! Fly!"

* Original Cindy in ''[[Dark Angel]]''--talks—talks about sex, never has any. Except in the episode where we meet her first girlfriend.

* Subverted in ''[[Scrubs]]'' - the moment Carla and Elliot assume that the [[Anything That Moves|Todd]] is gay, they want to make him their [[Pet Homosexual|'gay best friend']]... until he starts groping them.

* Patton Oswalt has a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvCwY7EwMx4 bit] on his ''Finest Hour'' CD where he recalls being asked to read for [[Cliché Storm|a factory-produced rom com]] that had one of these. He decided to read the part as if he was the dumbest [[Pet Homosexual]] ever, constantly suggesting the wrong advice for his straight female friend.

* The ''[[Shadow Hearts]]'' series has to include at least one [[Pet Homosexual]] who provides useful services per game. Wanderer Meiyuan from the original was only mildly flamboyant at most and rather predatory, but the travelling shopkeepers in ''Covenant'' and ''From the New World'' were incredibly over-the-top [[Flamboyant Gay|Flamboyant Gays]]s bordering dangerously on [[Camp Gay|Camp Gays]]s. This is balanced by having a heroic gay superhero vampire wrestler (yes, all of those) party member. He's only camp in the superhero sense, his gayness isn't really played up that much.

* Webcomic example / subversion: In ''[[Walkyverse|Shortpacked!]]'', when she learns that Ethan is gay, Robin pretends to be a lesbian in order to make him jealous, and thus produces a 'partner' whom she proudly refers to as "My lesbian!" to the point of not even learning her real name. The woman, however, is not an exaggerated stereotype used for comic effect but a perfectly ordinary, rather quiet and shy person who just happens to be gay - and, it <s> is hinted</s> has now been outright stated, has a crush on Robin, partially explaining why she puts up with Robin's insensitivity. Robin later apologises, explaining that she's merely insecure and something of a [[Cloudcuckoolander]], and the two become friends, and later lovers.<ref>though they later split up through circumstances too complicated to relate in a footnote</ref>. (Just for completeness, the lesbian's name is eventually revealed to be [[Punny Name|Leslie Bean]].)

* The [[Fag Hag]] phenomenon -- iphenomenon—i.e. straight women who collect gay male friends like accessories and rely on them for fashion and relationship advice, often referring to them as "my gays" in the manner of Kathy Griffin. While straight women befriending gay men isn't bad in and of itself, it becomes a bit patronizing when women expect ''all'' gay men they come across to fulfill the Pet Homosexual role.