History Main / ComingStraightStory

** A similar example: Peggy goes to a store frequented by transsexuals and makes a "girlfriend" who assumes that she's also transgender.

* PlayedForLaughs on one episode of ''Series/TheColbertReport'', in response to a Creator/{{Fox News|Channel}} report about straights being repressed, where the [[TransparentCloset heavily implied to be gay]] Colbert comes out as straight in a fairly unconvincing manner that has some parallels to someone coming out as gay to his or her family.

* Likewise, several of the cast of Series/QueerAsFolk came out as straight in real-life while doing the show. Same with the cast of ''Series/TheLWord''.

%% * [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7080706/1/Mikado_Comes_Out_of_the_Closet This]]...[[CastFullOfGay interesting]] ''{{LightNovel/Durarara}}'' fanfiction. The title and summary might have been a tip off though...

* AN episode of the FX series ''Starved'' sees corrupt cop Adam denying to Internal Affairs having an eating disorder. When shown photos of himself and another man at a park restroom Dan claims to be gay and ropes in his friend Dan to pretend to be his boyfriend. When Dan later admits the truth Adam is suspended.

** A similar example: Peggy accidentally goes to a store frequented by transsexuals and makes a "girlfriend" who assumes that she's also transgender.

Where a ComingOutStory is frequently a serious event within a character's life, with friends and family sometimes being initially unaccepting of the revelation, a Coming Straight Story almost always involves the gay friends rapidly coming to accept the fact that their friend is straight. Typically involves a straight male character in a profession where any men in the job are stereotypically expected to be gay.

* On ''Series/QueerAsFolk'', everyone assumes Hunter is gay because he used to be a prostitute and showed an interest in Brian when they first met, so when he asks Michael for extra money because he has a date, Michael and Ben are very excited that he finally has a boyfriend. Imagine their shock when he reluctantly points out that while he did say he had a friend, he never said anything about it being a boy.

* A rare serious example can be seen in the ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' episode "P.C.", where an out-and-proud lesbian named Babs Duffy, who is the leader of a lesbian rights movement called [[IncrediblyLamePun "LesBeStrong"]], is ultimately revealed to have a secret male lover. When she comes clean as a bisexual at a rally, and announces the expansion of her group's mandate to promote all [=LGBT=] rights instead of exclusively lesbian rights, it causes her to lose a significant portion of her membership, although she tells the [=SVU=] detectives that she feels it is the right thing to do.

* ''Webideo/DragonBallZAbridged'': Everyone assumed Zarbon was gay due to his campy manner and long hair (he was even mistaken for a female). And then it turns out he has a girlfriend, which was news to Frieza.

* [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7080706/1/Mikado_Comes_Out_of_the_Closet This]]...[[EveryoneIsGay interesting]] ''{{LightNovel/Durarara}}'' fanfiction. The title and summary might have been a tip off though...

* A variant of this occuring in the future in alluded to in ''Fanfic/CeladonsNewBlossom''. As a cover-up for being DisguisedInDrag, Ash says that he's a {{transgender}} girl. Ash knows that one day he'll have to come out about being cisgender, but for now he uses that story.

* [[Film/BringItOn Bring It On: In It To Win It]] has Ruben, a flamboyant, sunny male cheerleader... who turns out to be straight. Turns out, because his female teammates assumed he was gay, they had no reservations about changing their clothes and modeling underwear in front of him, and he had no desire to correct them. After learning this, the girls kick his ass.

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* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has Meg joining a lesbian school club whose members believe she is lesbian [[IJustWantToHaveFriends for acceptance]].

** A rare example of this trope ''not'' being played for laughs: After being laid off from his longtime job as an Army barber, Bill pretends to be gay so he can work as a hair stylist, but eventually comes out as straight. Everyone immediately turns on him, as no woman in Arlen trusts a straight man to do her hair, and he gets fired.

* Music/DavidBowie has said that his early sexual ambigious period was just to defy norms and that he later admitted to being a closet heterosexual.

** [[spoiler:Graham]], who has been sent to "[[CureYourGays True Directions]]" camp in ''Film/ButImACheerleader'' "comes out" as straight after a while, complaining that her parents just assumed she was a lesbian because she's {{tomboy}}ish.