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[[quoteright:350:[[Series/QueerAsFolk https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/queer_as_folk_cast.png]]]]

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[[quoteright:350:[[Series/QueerAsFolk [[quoteright:350:[[Series/QueerAsFolkUS https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/queer_as_folk_cast.png]]]]
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* CoaxThemOutOfTheCloset: Someone tries to convince a closeted LGBT+ person to come out.
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* QueerEstablishingMoment: A scene that shows that a character is LGBT, in a work where their orientation isn't the main focus.

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* QueerEstablishingMoment: A scene that first shows that a character is LGBT, in a work where their orientation isn't the main focus.
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* MistakenForGay: A character or a duo are mistaken to be gay by other people.

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+ BaraGenre



+ NewQueerCinema
+ QueerMedia
+ QueerRomance

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+ YaoiGenre
+ YuriGenre

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+ HomophobiaIndex



+ HomophobiaIndex

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+ HomophobiaIndexLGBTRepresentationInMedia

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* NoLoveForTheWicked: A villain that has no interest in sex or romance.



* VillainousAromanticAsexual: A villain that has no interest in sex or romance.
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* RomanticAsexual: Asexual characters who display romantic interest in others.
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* YaoiGuys: A BoysLove-style gay relationship in a work that is not BoysLoveGenre.
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* TokenYuriGirls: A {{Yuri}}-style lesbian relationship in a work that is not YuriGenre.
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* ExperimentedInCollege: Trying homosexuality or bisexuality in college. Like QueerRomanticPhase, it might be just a phase.

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* ExperimentedInCollege: Trying homosexuality or bisexuality in college. Like QueerRomanticPhase, GayRomanticPhase, it might be just a phase.
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* TransEqualsGay: The mistaken notion that homosexuality and transgenderism are one and the same.

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* TransEqualsGay: The mistaken notion that homosexuality and transgenderism transgender identity are one and the same.

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* ExperimentedInCollege: Trying homosexuality or bisexuality in college. Like SchoolgirlLesbians, it might be just a phase.

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* ExperimentedInCollege: Trying homosexuality or bisexuality in college. Like SchoolgirlLesbians, QueerRomanticPhase, it might be just a phase.



* SchoolgirlLesbians: Young girls who like other young girls.
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Capitalization was fixed from Main.Comingof Age Queer Romance to Main.Coming Of Age Queer Romance. Null edit to update index.
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* ComingOfAgeQueerRomance: A younger character (late tweens to early teens) realizes they are queer and enters a relationship with another queer character.
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* {{Asexuality}}: A character feels no sexual attraction.
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While in the real world, [[UsefulNotes/{{LGBT}} LGBTQ+]] persons are just as varied in personality and traits as straight/cisgender ones, it has suited television writers to use common stereotypes for their gay characters in lieu of actually making them "real people". To be fair, gay TV characters, in general, have become more realistic since the 1990s. But the stereotypes still remain the favorite tool of [[WritingPitfallIndex the hack writer]]--or the comedy auteur looking to parody or [[BlackComedy shock]]. Even some LGBTQ+ people perpetuate the stereotypes by criticizing those who fall outside of them as [[NoTrueScotsman "not really gay"]] or words to that effect.

It's been noted, by the way, that in contrast to gay characters and their stereotypes, ''bisexual'' characters are [[NoBisexuals virtually unknown]] on TV. Writers don't seem to know how to portray them, although when they do appear they tend to be TheCasanova or LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces, [[DepravedBisexual at best]]. It's also not uncommon for their same-sex attraction to only be mentioned, while their onscreen love interests are always the opposite sex. And even when bisexuality ''is'' depicted, it's almost never called by name.

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While in the real world, [[UsefulNotes/{{LGBT}} LGBTQ+]] persons are just as varied in personality and traits as straight/cisgender ones, it has suited television writers to use common stereotypes for their gay characters in lieu of actually making them "real people". To be fair, gay TV characters, in In general, gay TV characters have become more realistic since the 1990s. But the stereotypes still remain the favorite tool of [[WritingPitfallIndex the hack writer]]--or the comedy auteur looking to parody or [[BlackComedy shock]]. Even some LGBTQ+ people perpetuate the stereotypes by criticizing those who fall outside of them as [[NoTrueScotsman "not really gay"]] or words to that effect.

It's been noted, by the way, that in In contrast to gay characters and their stereotypes, ''bisexual'' characters are [[NoBisexuals virtually unknown]] on TV. Writers don't seem to know how to portray them, although when they do appear they tend to be TheCasanova or LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces, [[DepravedBisexual at best]]. It's also not uncommon for their same-sex attraction to only be mentioned, while their onscreen love interests are always the opposite sex. And even when bisexuality ''is'' depicted, it's almost never called by name.
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* BuryYourGays: No happy endings for LGBT+ characters

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* BuryYourGays: No happy endings for LGBT+ characterscharacters.



* ButNotTooBi: Bisexuality that is tilted to suit the sexuality and gender of the target audience

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* ButNotTooBi: Bisexuality that is tilted to suit the sexuality and gender of the target audienceaudience.
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* MentorInQueerness: A, usually older, out character who asks as support for a newly-out or questioning character.

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* MentorInQueerness: A, usually older, out character who asks acts as support for a newly-out or questioning character.
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* GayRomanticPhase: The idea that gayness is a phase that one goes through before growing up and getting into a heterosexual relationship.
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* AdaptationalGenderIdentity: When a character's gender alignment is changed in an adaptation, e.g. cisgender to transgender.
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* QueerEstablishingMoment: A scene that shows that a character is LGBT.

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* QueerEstablishingMoment: A scene that shows that a character is LGBT.LGBT, in a work where their orientation isn't the main focus.
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* QueerEstablishingMoment: A scene that shows that a character is LGBT.
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* EveryoneIsGay: When everyone in a {{Fanfic}} is gay, even the originally straight characters.
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* CriminalFoundFamily: Characters rejected by society find family with each other and in acts outlawed by society.

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* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: Are they [[{{Transgender}} trans]], nonbinary, [[SexShifter genderfluid]], intersexed or just a [[WholesomeCrossdresser crossdresser]]? Who knows.

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* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: Are they [[{{Transgender}} [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} trans]], nonbinary, [[SexShifter genderfluid]], intersexed or just a [[WholesomeCrossdresser crossdresser]]? Who knows.



* {{Transgender}}: Someone who doesn't identify as their sex assigned at birth.
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* ThePastorsQueerKid: A religious official has a child who isn't heterosexual.
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* ThePastorsQueerKid: A religious official has a child who isn't heterosexual.

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