Basic Trope: A homosexual male with stereotypically girlish traits.
- Straight: Bob is gay. He is also well-groomed, acts flamboyant, speaks in a high girlish voice, likes ballet, theaters, fashion shows, cooking, and knitting.
- Exaggerated: Bob lisps so much that he is completely incomprehensible and shudders at the thought of doing anything remotely "masculine." He only wears women's clothing, heavy makeup, and a wig, and he is always mistaken for a woman; he watches only "girl's things" like chick flicks and fashion shows, enjoys cooking, cleaning, knitting, and he is Really Get Around with various men! (He prefers Manly Gay Bears, for one's information)
- Downplayed:
- Bob loves mainly "unmanly" activities such as knitting and cooking and likes wearing the color pink, but otherwise looks and acts somewhat masculine, especially when compare to the Girly Girl.
- Bob is fashionable and likes to wear suits with feminine colors but doesn't act flamboyant.
- Bob is bisexual - women themselves are one of his feminine interests.
- Bob is just In Touch with His Feminine Side, he does like musicals and takes care of his appearance, wearing nice clothes, but is only slightly flamboyant level.
- Bob likes musicals and fashion shows, and also loves football and working out.
- Macho Camp
- Bob is effeminate, but not flamboyant and is in fact a Shrinking Violet.
- Justified:
- Bob is gay and fits all the stereotypes, but for different reasons: he lisps because of a dental problem, loves musicals because his grandma used to take him to them, etc.
- Bob is just naturally that feminine.
- Bob's abusive father enforced toxic masculinity in an attempt to turn him straight, so he cultivated his effeminate appearance and mannerisms as a form of rebellion.
- (for Downplayed #7) Bob is insecure about his gayness and/or effeminate traits, and tries to Flying Under the Gaydar, but he fails to hide his orientation properly.
- Inverted:
- Gender Inverted: Butch Lesbian (if completely opposite) or Lipstick Lesbian (if only gender-inverted)
- Subverted:
- Bob is very flamboyant and effeminate but reveals to Alice that he's actually straight.
- (Continuing from "Exaggerated") Bob is a transgender woman.
- Double Subverted:
- However, he only did so on a dare from his even more flamboyant friend Chuck, in order to win a ticket to Gypsy.
- Bob plays as a transgender woman in his featured film role.
- Parodied: Bob is shown going to a "gay camp" where they teach proper lisping techniques, what constitutes a truly "fabulous" musical, etc.
- Zig Zagged:
- Bob acts like a stereotypical gay, but then reveals that he's straight. But then it is discovered that he lied. Or perhaps he told the truth.
- Sometimes Bob acts camp, and other times he acts manly.
- Alice is a lesbian woman who acts very campy. (still campy and still gay... just not in the traditional way...)
- Averted: Bob is neither gay nor effeminate, he's a Ridiculously Average Guy whether he is gay or not.
- Enforced: "I know it's stereotypical, but we need to convey that Bob is gay. Let's make him flamboyantly camp."
- Lampshaded: "OMG, darling, you're truly F-A-B-U-L-O-U-S!!!"
- Invoked: Bob wants to live with two girls, so he acts flamboyant and effeminate so his landlord will think he's gay and let him.
- Exploited: See Invoked, where through his act, the landlord would mistake him as gay and Bob can have all the fun in secret.
- Defied:
- Bob is gay but goes out of his way to make sure he doesn't fit any of the stereotypes.
- Bob is flamboyant and bisexual, but only sleeps with women to avoid being seen as one of these.
- Discussed: "Of course, you're gay, Bob! I should have realized it sooner."
- Conversed: "I'm really sick of all the portrayals of gay men on this show being incredibly camp."
- Implied: Bob is an Ambiguously Gay character who acts very effeminate.
- Deconstructed:
- Bob is gay and fits the stereotype, but this is just a facade he puts up because no one will accept him as a gay man any other way.
- Alternatively, Bob's extreme effeminacy makes other people think all gay people act like Bob, and thus contributes to discrimination and stereotyping of all homosexual males.
- Reconstructed:
- Bob eventually is accepted for who he is and drops the facade, but then realizes that he actually enjoyed being Camp Gay. So, he gets a job as a Drag Queen, and the series now revolves around his work.
- Bob accepts and enjoys who he is and realizes he doesn't need to act a certain way to please other people. And he just happens to be a fabulous gay man with a flair for fashion, musicals, and cooking.
- Played For Laughs: Bob acts flamboyant even at inappropriate moments.
- Played For Drama:
- Bob and his partner fight when the former calls him out for being so stereotypical.
- A Coming of Age story about Bob, who grew up in a religious Heteronormative Crusader family. After he figured out that he is gay and effeminate, he must face-to-face deal with his parents who won't accept who he is.
- Due to his flamboyant appearance and behaviors, Bob goes outside, and gets beaten up, or maybe even murdered, by Heteronormative Crusader.
- Played For Horror: Bob is Depraved Homosexual, and his flamboyant mannerism is come from his Flaming Devil nature.
Back to Camp Gay, darling!
