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{{trope}}
[[File:
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 [[
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Sweden from ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'', [[Single
** [[Drill Sergeant Nasty|Germany]] as well, if his [[Ship Tease|rather]] [[Ho Yay|close]] [[Official Couple|relationship]] with [[Genki Guy|Italy]] is any clue.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Apollo and the Midnighter (Apollo is slightly less exaggeratedly tough and may be more of a [[
* By implication, Hooded Justice and Captain Metropolis from ''[[Watchmen]]''.
* Bloke from ''[[X-Force]]'', an avid bodybuilder and especially brutal vigilante. He also has [[Macho Camp]] elements (pink skin, said to have great taste in home decoration, very romantic with his boyfriend), but he was primarily a big strong man who happened to be gay.
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== [[Fan Fiction]] ==
* [[Superhero]] [[Slash Fic
* Parodied in [http://lexhibition.livejournal.com/69412.html this fic].
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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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* Dave Karofsky from ''[[Glee]]''; the guys at the gay bar even call him a "[[The Bear|bear cub]]."
* [[Gayngster|Sam Adama]] from ''[[Caprica]]''
* Bob Hunter from ''[[Desperate Housewives]]''. Taller and a tad more muscular than his husband, Lee Mc Dermott. Both can be considered as [[
* Wade and Trey from ''[[
* Riley from [[Degrassi]], also overlapping with [[
== [[Music]] ==
* [[Electric Six]] also did [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTN6Du3MCgI&feature=related a Manly Gay video].
* "[[Heavy Metal
* [[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
* [[
* 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
* The end of the video for {{spoiler|[[Carly Rae Jepsen]]'s "Call Me Maybe"}}.
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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)|Darren Young]], and he's the [[Badass Gay|first openly gay man]] in the WWE. He got support from his fellow wrestlers for doing so.
== [[Stand Up Comedy]] ==
* The late [[Greg Giraldo]] once talked about this, saying that some day gay guys would be the basis for physical comparison for men:
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* [[Star Fox (
* [[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
* 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
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Jean and Paul from ''[[
* How can anyone forget [[The Simpsons (animation)|DUFFMAN!]]
== [[Real Life]] ==
* [[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
* 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 [
* 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 [[
* ''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 [[
* [[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.
* 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 ''[[
* 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>
* [
** Incidentally, Alexander could have been a
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Always Male]]
[[Category:Masculinity Tropes]]
[[Category:Queer As Tropes]]
[[Category:Turn-On Tropes]]
[[Category:Manly Gay]]
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