History Main / StraightGay

* The main cast of ''VisualNovel/ExtracurricularActivities'' are RatedMForManly with huge muscles and hardly show any stereotypical traits.

%%* Zach and Shaun from the movie ''Film/{{Shelter|JonahMarkowitz}}''.

* '''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' has Burter, whose only "gay" qualities are speaking with a lisp and giving Jeice genuine compliments. While his sexuality is only revealed four episodes after his death, ''WebAnimation/{{HFIL}}'' takes the opportunity to contrast him with the CampStraight Zarbon.

* ''Fanfic/GrowingPains'': The jocks didn't even suspect Steve is gay until he told what he thinks of Danny's adult self.

%%* ''Series/QueerAsFolkUS'': all of the main guys except Emmett.

* ''Series/{{Rubicon}}'': [[spoiler: Kale]] turns out to have a boyfriend, Walter, who he lives with. The first person he shows emotion and affection toward, though it's mild. It's also implied that Bloom was once involved with him. They're all very average, completely lacking stereotypical traits of gay men.

* Wing and Wong from ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaThePawsOfDestiny'' don't display any gay characteristics, and the characters are shocked when they're revealed to be a couple. Granted in their debut episode they strongly implied they had the same mom, meaning they were likely intended to be brothers before being rewritten, so it makes sense they didn't act gay at all before. But even after their coming-out scene they still don't act gay [[ButNotTooGay or even display any strong affection for each other,]] which lead some people to believe they were just putting on an act with their boss, but to be fair Kung Fu Panda is somewhat of a NoHuggingNoKissing series.

* Gus and Wally from ''WesternAnimation/MissionHill'' are an elderly gay couple who only display their sexuality when appropriate and are an early example of a gay couple on in a cartoon being portrayed in a wholly positive light - the first to show a guy-on-guy kiss on UsefulNotes/PrimeTime, network television ''ever'', in fact, which got praise from GLAAD and scorn from the MoralGuardians, despite the show being marketed ''to adults'' in the United States. Gus is ManlyGay, while Wally is Straight Gay, if a bit wimpy.
* Similar to Lexington, Richie from ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'' was confirmed to have been gay like his counterpart from the comic.
* Mocked in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' when a muscular, dashing, macho man knocks down Fry's sand castle and hits on Leela. She rejects him, but when he tells her it was a business proposition that they didn't understand, she offers to go for a stroll with him, slightly disappointed that he wasn't attracted to her. He then adds insult to injury by telling Leela "No thanks ma'am, I'm actually gay" and walking off.

* On ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', Meg's new crush, Kent Lastname is on a sports team, goes on a date with Meg, and is gay, but doesn't act camp so Meg doesn't pick it up. Unfortunately this causes Brian to give Meg the advice that maybe he's just confused and Meg (in another desperate attempt to gain ANY kind of love) makes a plan to roofie Kent's current crush (Chris) and have him tell her what it was like having sex with him ...until her [[HeelRealization realization]] and [[HeelFaceTurn heel face turn]] near the end of the episode.

* ''WesternAnimation/KipoAndTheAgeOfWonderbeasts'': While not overly manly, Benson certainly doesn't display any camp stereotypes. He comes out to Kipo during their "date" in Ratland, and during his dream by Tad, he gets a huge amount of male groupies.

* Jonathan Kellerman's ''Alex Delaware'' mystery series features detective Milo Sturgis who is one of these. He's not particular fashionable and is constantly eating food that's not good for him, much to the exasperation of his boyfriend.
** Said boyfriend, Dr. Rick Silverman, is an example in his own right. While a lot tidier and fussier than Milo, it's in keeping with his being a surgeon rather than camp.

* The hero in ''The Door into Fire'' (et seq.) fits this trope nicely; it is worth so noting because at least one British paperback edition of the book portrays this cultured prince as Conan-like, complete with an half-naked woman twined about one of his legs ('Pull the other one!') Technically the series is EveryoneIsBi, rather than gay as such.
* Joseph Hansen's Dave Brandstetter, first introduced in ''Fadeout'' (1967), is a gay detective in the hard-boiled tradition, with no stereotypical mannerisms at all. His two long-term boyfriends and one short-term boyfriend, though, are more obviously camp.
* In Reginald Hill's Dalziel and Pascoe novels, everyone is so distracted by DS Edgar Wield's unbelievably ugly face that they fail to notice that he's gay.

* Big John Harrigan (played by Creator/BrianCox) in ''L.I.E'' is a former Marine and spy who likes muscle cars. He also prefers the sexual company of teenage boys and young men.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheMitchellsVsTheMachines''. [[spoiler:Katie]] is queer but the only indications are her showering Jade with Hearts when they are FaceTiming, her wearing a Pride-Badge on her hoodie throughout the movie, her Flashback to when she was a teenager where she "spent some time figuring herself out", and in the end [[spoiler:when Linda asks if Katie and Jade are official when she's coming back for Thanksgiving break.]]

%%* Naoe from ''LightNovel/MirageOfBlaze''.

* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'': The 2023 reboot has Raj [[ComingOutStory realizing that he is gay after developing feelings for Bowie]]. Unlike Bowie, who is very flamboyant, Raj shows no stereotypically gay quirks.

* Joachim Valentine from ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts''. While he is certainly a LargeHam, little he does is overtly homosexual, with the exception of a couple comments he makes throughout the game.

* Matt Fielding on ''Series/MelrosePlace'' is one of the first examples in prime-time. Unfortunately, seeing how gay acceptance was still in its infancy stages in the 90s, execus were ''very'' much on his character and as such, very little could be done in his case aside from various storylines and partners that he shared almost no public displays of affection with (ironic considering the show was infamous for the copious amount of sex and other intimacy).

* ''Franchise/GreenLantern'':

* Mikaal Tomas from the '90s run of ''Comicbook/{{Starman}}'' was pretty Straight Gay. He was, of course, [[NoBisexuals bisexual]] according to what we're told and was, originally, Starman in the 70s (oh, the bling) but if anything, he was more standard-heroic than Jack. He and his boyfriend, however, were an interestingly ''steady'' contrast to Jack's romantic issues.

* Piotr "Colossus" Rasputin from ComicBook/UltimateXMen, and his boyfriend Northstar, again, but this one is from an alternate dimension than the one mentioned above.

Originally treated as a subversion of the [[StereotypeGay standard gay stereotypes]], the Straight Gay is a homosexual male or female character who has no [[CampGay camp mannerisms]], Butch Lesbian tendencies, or obviously "gay" affectations.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Louis shows no stereotypical sign of the fact he's gay before it's revealed, nor afterward.

Originally treated as a subversion of the [[StereotypeGay standard gay stereotypes]], the Straight Gay is a homosexual male or female character who has no [[CampGay camp mannerisms]], [[Butch Lesbian]] tendencies, or obviously "gay" affectations.

Originally treated as a subversion of the [[StereotypeGay standard gay stereotypes]], the Straight Gay is a homosexual character who has no [[CampGay camp mannerisms]] or obviously "gay" affectations.

* ''Series/{{Equal}}'': Many of the gay men who are shown in the series had the same conventional looks as the straight guys from the 50's and 60's (at least publicly [[ClosetGay for cover]].

%%* Zach and Shaun from the movie ''Film/{{Shelter}}''.