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== Fan Works ==
* ''[[A Butterfly Effect]]'' features quite a bit of this, though it is repeatedly hinted that it will end well.
* [[Slash Fic]] ''loves'' this trope, even if it's for a fandom taking place in a world where sexuality isn't even an issue or where [[Word of God]] explicitly declared homophobia doesn't exist.
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* Actually inverted in the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' fanfic ''The Combinatorics Project'', which was built around the idea of writing chapters in which each mane character is shipped exactly once with each other mane character. In chapter 3, Rainbow Dash angsts quite a bit about being straight. (This is the only universe presented in the fic in which this is the case, {{spoiler|and she ends up with Twilight Sparkle anyway, except that Twi has to use a [[Gender Bender]] spell}}.) ''The Combinatorics Project'' notwithstanding, it's played straight more often than not in pony shipfic, usually in the form of Dash being unwilling to go with the presented 'ship at first due to traumatic experiences involving flight school bullies.
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== Music ==
* One of [[Morrissey]]'s specialties. Best summed up by [[Bret Easton Ellis]], who referred to [[The Smiths]] as "gay angst music" in ''The Rules Of Attraction''.
* "Sing If You're Glad To Be Gay" by the Tom Robinson Band.
* John Lennon admitted that [[The Beatles]]' "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away", which he wrote, is something of a Gayngst ode to their manager, Brian Epstein, who was gay and not unfamiliar with the real life issues inherent in this trope.
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* A major part of the prolecto series. In fact, this trope is why one character goes from "Good" to "Neutral. The story starts here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6721353/
** Eventually {{spoiler|Pretty much subverted, as other issues come to prominence, and the character is told, bluntly, to get over it.}}
** Also given an interesting examination, where the character comes to the conclusion "Okay, which would people hate me for more. Being gay, or being a demon. Being gay... crud." [[Face Heel Turn]] ensues.
== Western Animation ==
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