Ambiguosly gay tvtropes

Compare Hide Your Lesbianswherein the relationship between two characters is ambiguously gay. They're ambiguously gay! A closely related trope is Ambiguously Biwhich is similar to this tvtropes but with bisexuality as opposed to homosexuality, and often involves a ambiguosly who often shows explicit attraction towards at least one gender in canon.

This is to allow time for the story to develop the character and resolve ambiguity. Perhaps you have a male character who is visibly touch-feely towards another male character, while being similarly open in rejecting the advances of any female characters who come his way.

In modern sociological theory, these characters are described as being "queer-coded". A No Recent Examples rule applies to this trope. A page for describing PlayingWith: Ambiguously Gay. Basic Trope: A character with no confirmed love interests of the opposite sex shows signs of being.

Not to be confused with Ho Yaywhich is an Audience Reaction for fans interpreting any interactions between two characters of the same gender as homoerotic, whether or not it's deliberately implied within the text and regardless of what sexual orientation the characters may have in canon.

Or when the other male characters ogle the resident Ms. Fanservicethis character hardly bats an eye, but he seems quite interested in what the Walking Shirtless Scene is doing. Also compare and contrast Queer Establishing Momentfor when an Ambiguously Gay character graduates out of the "Ambiguously" part.

This particular permutation of Ambiguously Gay has largely become a Broken Trope in domestic media due to contemporary media being more gay to depiction of explicitly gay characters, many of whom don't necessarily conform to stereotypes.

In other cases where the censors may not have permitted any overt implications of homosexual attraction, creators would sometimes deliberately utilize stereotypical traits as a way of Getting Crap Past the Radar and implying a character's homosexuality.

Ambiguously Gay in Western Animation. Compare and contrast with Homoerotic Subtextwhich is about same-gender characters who may or may not be attracted to each other, but nevertheless have gay moments which are often lampshaded by the work itself.

Cogsworth has many incidents of this as he has. Examples for episodic works shouldn't be added until end of season for the season introducing the ambiguity (or after 3 months, for episodic works. Ambiguously Gay in Animated Films.

This trope has taken slightly different forms throughout the past due to differences in censorship and what was permissible in the media.

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A No Recent Examples rule applies to this trope. Ambiguously Gay characters in the Marvel Universe. A No Recent Examples rule applies to this trope. Examples for episodic works shouldn't be added until end of season for the season introducing the ambiguity or after 3 monthsfor episodic works without seasons.

The ambiguity can range all the way from from blink-and-you'll-miss-it implications to all-but-confirmed. Examples for episodic works shouldn't be added until end of season for the season introducing the ambiguity (or after 3 months, for episodic works without.

It's frequently combined with Word of Gayfor cases when the character's homosexuality remains deliberately ambiguous within the work itself but is declared elsewhere by a creator. What even more convincing about this is that in its live-action remake, Le Fou is openly gay.

Ambiguously Gay TV Tropes

For example a male character might lispshow and have an interest in fashion and musicalshave no apparent interest in the opposite sex, and live in a single-bedroom apartment with one of their "roommates". However, it still lives on in some kinds of media aimed at international audiences, due to certain countries having more stringent anti-LGBT censorship than others.

As a result, modern instances of the trope are less likely to rely on stereotypes or code; common reasons for characters in newer works being considered Ambiguously Gay include a lack of interest in heterosexual relationships, overtly implied romantic or sexual interest in a character of the same gender, and In-Universe rumors about the character's sexuality.

There is no waiting time for non-episodic works. Other characters in the work may even question exactly which way this character swings, but never get an answer. Beauty and the Beast (): Le Fou is a little too much into Gaston.

Perhaps you have a male character who is visibly touch-feely towards another male character, while. No Real Life Examples, Please! Yes, this character is Ambiguously Gay—they display much onscreen evidence of exclusive same-gender attraction, but nothing is ever explicitly confirmed one way or another.

The character's sexuality is simply never made clear within the work. In many old films, characters were often given descriptions that may be perceived as code words for "gay". See also Pseudo-Romantic Friendship. The Ambiguously Gay trope as used in popular culture.