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== [[Film]] ==
* Stephen Stucker as "Johnny" in the ''[[Airplane!]]'' movies. Though most of the humor is from his [[Cloudcuckoolander]] personality.
* Simon from ''[[As Good as It Gets]]'' is a [[Deconstruction]] of this character type. {{spoiler|essentially what happens when the
* Though Disney is [[Executive Meddling|still too conservative]] to let him be anything but [[Ambiguously Gay]], Ryan Evans of ''[[High School Musical]]'' is still [[Flamboyant Gay|pretty flaming]], and his spotlight-hogging twin sister's treatment definitely qualifies him for this trope. He even says in the second movie, mid-[[Character Development]], "I know everyone thinks of me as Sharpay's poodle."
** Then again, by HSM standards he's undoubtedly one of the better-developed characters (if not ''the best'').
* The female lead's best friend in the film ''[[Must Love Dogs]]''.
* 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
* Damien in ''[[Mean Girls]]''.
* ''[[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
* Hollywood Montrose from the [[Mannequin]] movies is a particularly cartoonish (and yet, somehow sort of awesome) example.
* The Nia Vardalos movie ''I Hate Valentine's Day'' features two gay friends of the main character whose personalities extend solely to the fact that they are gay. And no, they don't get any sex.
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* Lukewarm from ''[[Porridge]]''.
* Averted in ''[['Allo 'Allo!|Allo Allo]]''. While Lieutenant Gruber's attraction to men (and specifically Rene) is occasionally played for laughs, he's still a developed and reasonably respected character.
* Jack from ''[[Will and Grace]]'' is treated as Karen's
** Arguably inverted with [[Name and Name|the two title characters.]] Despite [[Launcher of a Thousand Ships|driving most of the romantic plot lines]], scatter-brained, [[Hollywood Dateless]], [[This Loser Is You]] [[Fag Hag]] Grace is frequently Will's Pet Heterosexual.
* Marc St. James from ''[[Ugly Betty]]'' is Wilhelmina Slater's
** But inverted with Hugo Lombardi from the original ''[[Yo Soy Betty, la Fea]]'', whose constant moodiness prompted that few people wanted to deal with him, and in fact he treats his elderly secretary Ines as ''his'' mascot, for better and for worse.
** The second and third seasons [[Character Development|developed Marc's personal life]] a bit beyond Wilhelmina as well.
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** They were shown meeting up at a New Year's Eve party (Anthony appeared to be expecting Stanford) and kissing at midnight. Still, those two characters (who'd hated each other throughout the series) are just slammed together in the feature as the ''only gay men in NYC'' that can be paired together? {{spoiler|And then they're married in the second movie}}.
* Gabby in ''[[Birds of Prey]]''.
* Original Cindy in ''[[Dark Angel]]''
* Subverted in ''[[Scrubs]]'' - the moment Carla and Elliot assume that the [[Anything That Moves|Todd]] is gay, they want to make him their
* Ashley's friend Griffin on ''[[The Secret Life of the American Teenager]]''. [[Have I Mentioned I Am Gay?|He takes great care to mention that he's gay in every single scene he's in]] (often multiple times!), but doesn't really have...well, any other characteristics. We know nothing else about him. And he's only shown with a love interest once in passing - in contrast to the other characters, whose [[Love Dodecahedron|tangled]] [[Dating Do-Si-Do|romantic]] [[No Going Steady|lives]] are the focus of every episode.
* Marco on ''[[Degrassi the Next Generation]]''. To be fair, he has male friends, and is introduced to them, but his male friends always have a certain [[Ho Yay|subtext]] to them, that his female friends don't because he's gay. But in many episodes, he's seen hanging with Paige, Ellie, and Alex. A true [[Distaff Counterpart]] is Alex, who is introduced as hanging out in a mostly-male circle.
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== [[Stand Up Comedy]] ==
* 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
== [[Video Games]] ==
* The ''[[Shadow Hearts]]'' series has to include at least one
*** Well, except in the Great Gama sidequest, where you {{spoiler|[[Unusual Euphemism|wrestle]] with him at the end, while Anastasia acts like a typical [[Yaoi Fangirl]], and Yuri is nauseous (forgetting he can turn into a demon and fly away).}}
* Carla's neighbor in ''[[Fahrenheit (2005 video game)]]'' is openly gay and his role in the plot (aside from assisting her investigation a little) is to provide eerily accurate prophetic foreshadowing, bringing him into [[Magical Queer]] zone, as well.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* 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>
** Also hilariously discussed in an earlier joke: the recently un-closeted Ethan gets dragged into shoe-shopping with Robin and Amber. He's not very good at giving advice, leading Amber to call him "the worst gay friend ever". (Just for [[Rule of Funny]], he was also wearing a purple shirt with "Gay Friend" on it)
* Tai from [[Questionable Content]], in her earlier appearances.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* The [[Fag Hag]]
* Truman Capote was this for a number of socialites before he wrote [[Write Who You Know|''Answered Prayers'']].
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