History Main / ForcedOutOfTheCloset

* Unintentionally done in ''Theatre/TheChildrensHour''. An EnfantTerrible named Mary spreads fake lies that her two female teachers are sleeping together. This causes a huge stir in their community after Mary's grandmother gets all of the parents to remove their children from the school. The rumors and failed lawsuit ruin Martha and Karen's lives, made worse when [[spoiler:Karen's boyfriend leaves her due to believing the rumors]]. As it turns out, [[spoiler:Martha]] actually was a lesbian and was in love with her best friend, however, she had repressed it heavily until Mary acted as a negative ClosetKey. [[spoiler:This all results in Martha being DrivenToSuicide in the end.]]

* Done purposely in "Theatre/BareAPopOpera". [[spoiler:Matt becomes jealous of Jason's relationship with Ivy and proceeds to out him to the cast of the play, after walking in on Jason kissing Peter at the rave.]].

* Done purposely in "Theatre/BareAPopOpera". [[Spoiler:Matt becomes jealous of Jason's relationship with Ivy and proceeds to out him to the cast of the play, after walking in on Jason kissing Peter at the rave.]].

* Done purposely in "Theatre/BareAPopOpera". [[Spoiler:Matt]] becomes jealous of Jason's relationship with Ivy and proceeds to out him to the cast of the play, after walking in on Jason kissing Peter at the rave.

** In the BackStory, Justin was outed by his friend Melissa, who falls under the "accidental" type in that he'd come out to her, and then she'd told her sister... who was the school's biggest gossip, and promptly spread it around town. He was furious at her for this for years afterward and was especially pissed that his own parents found out after overhearing people talking about it at the grocery store.
*** The author has explicitly tried not to depict either Justin or Melissa as being right, since on the one had it ''was'' an accident, and on the other hand it totally altered Justin's life to the point of almost making him commit suicide, and Melissa did nothing to make it up to him other than apologize many times, and later began delusionally insisting it was just a phase. Justin's anger is perfectly understandable, even if he takes it a bit far at times, refusing to speak to anyone who's even friends with Melissa.

** In the BackStory, Justin was outed by his friend Melissa, who falls under the "accidental" type in that he'd come out to her, and then she'd told her sister, who was the town's gossip, and promptly spread it around town. He was extremely mad at her for this for years afterward and was especially pissed that his own parents found out after overhearing people talking about it at the grocery store.

** Sam is a trans man, but a previous attempt to come out as a lesbian (which ended very badly) has made him very unwilling to share this with anyone. When Grace accidentally finds out, he's terrified that she'll out him. Thankfully they talk it out peacefully before drama comes into play, and he's grateful to actually have someone to talk to about it.

* ''Film/MyAnimal'': Heather is seen during her DanceOfRomance with Jonny by her brothers, who can clearly see what this means and afterward act coldly to her.

* Creator/ElliotPage publicly came out as gay in 2014 (and later as a queer trans man in 2020), but nearly a decade prior, during production of ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'', director Creator/BrettRatner would [[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/nov/10/ellen-page-brett-ratner-gay-comment reveal him as gay to the crew,]] down to saying to a woman "You should fuck her to make her realize she's gay", which Page would later say was very uncomfortable.

* In ''Roleplay/DawnOfANewAgeOldportBlues'', Daigo is outed as bisexual by his father and step-mother, which is just one step in their long line of [[AbusiveParents abuse]] towards him.

* Unintentionally done in ''Theatre/TheChildrensHour''. An EnfantTerrible named Mary spreads fakes lies that her two female teachers are sleeping together. This causes a huge stir in their community after Mary's grandmother gets all of the parents to remove their children from the school. The rumors and failed lawsuit ruin Martha and Karen's lives, made worse when [[spoiler:Karen's boyfriend leaves her due to believing the rumors]]. As it turns out, [[spoiler:Martha]] actually was a lesbian and was in love with her best friend, however, she had repressed it heavily until Mary acted as a negative ClosetKey. [[spoiler:This all results in Martha being DrivenToSuicide in the end.]]

* During a 1982 interview with ''Us'' magazine, Music/JohnnyMathis offhandedly mentioned that "Homosexuality is a way of life that I've grown accustomed to." The quote was meant to be off the record, but was published anyway without his consent, resulting in death threats that kept him silent about his sexuality for a long time. It wasn't until 2017, 35 years later, that he confirmed that he was gay on his own terms.

* A veteran Marine of the Vietnam War named Oliver Sipple saved President Gerald Ford from an assassination attempt in 1975, and soon after Harvey Milk outed him to the media. Interestingly enough Milk was gay himself, but he thought outing Sipple would dispel the stereotype of gay men being cowardly. Unfortunately, Sipple hadn't come out to his parents yet and, as a result of this, they disowned him to his face. He ended up drinking himself to death at 47.

* [[Creator/TheWachowskis Lilly Wachowski]] was forced to come out as Transgender after a tabloid threatened to expose her status in an article. The emotional stress of the incident led to Lilly dropping out of working on the second season of ''Series/Sense8''.

* In volume ten of ''LightNovel/TheCaseFilesOfJewelerRichard'', [[spoiler:Jeffrey]] is outed to his family as gay, causing issues in the family inheritance as he won't be having biological children. While his older brother had found out already from reading his emails, no one else knew--and he didn't know his brother knew, either.