I have become this trope. Already have had the "if you're a lesbian we're okay with it" speech four times from my parents and jokes from friends, am and have always been a tomboy such as watching boy TV shows, not caring about my appearance, despising dresses and only wearing jeans. Combined with having no proper boyfriends as of yet, being very overly touchy with close female friends, joking that I fancy them and stalk them, having and knowing many gay adult friends and online bisexual teenagers and being an open supporter of gay rights. This is despite my clear interest in men, openly fancying many and discussions on how cute they are.....

I know several men who one could check off on a list for all of their "gay" qualities (works with jewelry, is a hairdresser, has a lisp, is close with his mother)- and yet, they are all heterosexual and not in denial about anything, have been married to women, etc. I no longer gives credence to "gaydar" and just wait until the person outs him/herself before making a judgement!

Gaydar..gaydar...boy I know who is very...PROTECTIVE of his male friends and seems to have no interest in girls whatsoever.

Actually, my biggest single plus in a guy is what I call the False Gaydar Trip. A guy who looks gay, acts gay, dresses gay, thinks gay, lives gay, embodies gay, and yet goes for girls? That's perfection right there.

Huh. I (a bisexual male) find that very odd, because I prefer to go for guys who are the exact opposite. You know... StraightGay? Or I suppose you could say they're like stealth planes with gaydar.

You mean they're FlyingUnderTheGaydar so-to-speak.

A friend of mine from high-school would have made your gaydar explode, then. We never saw him with a girl, and my group was mostly guys with just one girl... and he never really talked to her... and he tried to hump my best-friend (as a joke, but still... He sat with his back against the wall from that day onward.)

I know a guy who hangs out with a big group of (female) cheerleaders, though he isn't dating any of them, and really tips off my personal gaydar... yet, he's also a giant homophobe and tends to liberally use "that's gay" and insult another openly gay guy whom we both know. I'm currently betting that he's just very deep in a TransparentCloset.

My friend: bleached blond, huge interest in fashion, has appeared in musical theatre, slightly hip-swaying walk, 'fabulous' way of speaking, and is in no way attracted to men. He also managed to miss the point completely with "But she doesn't ''look'' gay!"

I was confused until I realised that those two sentences weren't referring to the same person.

My friend (and current crush) loves musicals, ''Glee'', Lady Gaga and Abba. He also writes in multicoloured pens and said that one of the reasons why he did so was that "they looked pretty". Happily, it turns out he's completely heterosexual, just very camp.

I once worked with a guy I had pegged as gay on day one. He was ''fabulous''! Also he was sleeping with half the women in the department, and married.

My music teacher. Day one, I thought I had him all mapped out in my mind. Somewhere around day 20, I notice- yeah, he's very Catholic, very married, and in the guise of a cherubic old man, a serious CovertPervert. Also, acting much too much like the Joker (as in, world's cruelest sense of humor plus an incredibly mercurial temper, not doing pencil tricks to students with late homework) for a man whose students call him 'Mr. J' should ever, ever dare to.

@/Nomic: There was a guy in my highschool who was just like the stereotypical gay guy (wore flannel shirts and earrings, spend a lot of time doing his hair, was very interested in fashion and said "fabulous" a lot etc.), except for, well, not being gay. He might've been bisexual though.

I was positive that my male best friend was gay. He loves musicals, speaks with a lisp, bleached his hair, goes tanning as often as possible, has said Meryl Streep is his hero, love fashion, and adores scented candles. He also has a small male dog named Gem. However, his first girlfriend was my female best friend from a difference social circle (yes, it was as awkward as it sounds. And yes, they did break up in an ugly fashion, causing any mixing of social circles to be awkward). She let it slip that he has a fascination with boobs, and tried but failed to subtly ask said ex-girlfriend to touch them. He has a new girlfriend, who he claims to be in love with, while constantly and blatantly flirting with me...it's all very confusing, and I can't figure out if he's doing this because he wants to, are if he's trying to cover for something...

My present girlfriend is a self-proclaimed lesbian (and I'm male). Gayness refers to both a lifestyle and a sexual identity, and one without the other doesn't necessarily lessen one's ability to qualify for the title. Also since bisexuality is derided in the community those that are so disposed tend to, ironically, keep it closeted.

I have a lot of gay friends, but the most effeminate, limp-wristed, high-register-voiced of them all apparently likes girls. Actually I'm not convinced he likes either, but asexual is still not gay.

I have the exact same situation as above - only made even stranger considering that I'm bi, and HeterosexualLifePartners with aforementioned friend, which has led to more than a few people assuming that we're a gay couple.

@/JChance: I would wonder if my roommate wrote that, except that he's the bi one as well as the camp one in the pair.

My roommate and I both are involved in theater (in my case, musicals even), have relatively high-register voices, have loads of girlfriends (in the platonic sense), and one of us wears a necklace and gels his hair. I'm is bisexual; my roommate is 100% straight.

I am a music major on clarinet at my school, and thought that the other two male players in the studio were definitely gay...until I saw one of them with his girlfriend and was nearly beaten up by a friend of the other when I asked about it.

@/BooBooBob: My second senior year (don't ask) was in a new school in another state so no one knew me. I was involved in a student discussion group for kicks and about 3/4 through the year the teacher who led it said that the afternoon was a free-for-all discussion-wise. The first thing that was mentioned was a student informing me that there was a rumor going around that I was bisexual. I laughed... a lot... then informed him that the rumor was false: I'm as queer as a three-dollar bill. Then the girl I thought hated me all year said that I shouldn't use the word queer because it was mean and that she respected my honesty. She was much friendlier after that. Come to think of it, so was most of the school. It was weird. Then again, it was in Massachusetts.

Living in MA for awhile, I've drawn conclusion; if you don't have any traits that cause you to stand out, you're typically ignored.

I have a friend who is AmbiguouslyGay in the sense that he'll be acceptive of the fact that he's gay (or at the very least most likely gay) one day and then very hush-hush about it the next (even to me, with whom he's been infatuated in the past to the point of telling me). This does not make sense to me, as several people in his year group are openly gay, and no-one in the year is ever homophobic towards them, and the aforementioned friend appears utterly terrified that people will be homophobic towards him.

I have a friend who, although does not really fit the 'gay' stereotype, strikes me, and many of my friends, as gay. He however, claims he isn't and he does have a girlfriend. He once said to us: 'I'm not gay, I'm just ambiguously camp'

He must be a fan of YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries.

Allow me to speak for many of the bisexuals out there: We love to play Main/AmbiguouslyGay. It can be absolutely hilarious.

Seconded, though I can never get the voice right >.<

Allow me to speak for a select few straight men out there. We too like to play Main/AmbiguouslyGay. Just to fuck with people. It helps when one is secure in his own sexuality.

My middle school is filled people who I've known for years but do not know the sexuality of.

My best friend of 16 years gets this all the time. Not particularly high voiced, he is well groomed, clean, close to his family, loves to cook, has taught elementary school, maintains the bulk of his friendships with females and gay men, and has no problem sewing cushions for his couch. He also skydives and does any and all construction necessary in his house. Nearly everyone who meets him goes through the "is he, or isn't he" thing until they get up the nerve to ask. He's never had a romantic feeling towards anyone of his own gender. My father won't believe he isn't gay. What makes the whole thing more complicated is that we are very much {{The Straight Will and Grace}}. People nearly have a stroke when they discover we are not romantically involved, not in denial over our feelings for one another, and neither of us are gay.

My best friend's mother decided to rent a room to someone. One of the possible choices was a stereotypically gay hairdresser- his name even radiated fabulousness. He didn't get picked.

I've had not one, not two, but three ambiguously gay teachers; one in High School (Literature), one in an English Institute and the latest one in College (Sociology) and for some reason, I got along well with all of them. Also, my best friend in High School was one too, tough invoking the trope wasn't recommended as any mention of it triggered his BerserkButton.

There was a wonderful scene at my college's drama club. There were two senior boys sitting there, neither gay, both very confident, both nice. One of them gets up to go help out with something, and a freshman leans over to the other and asks, "Is he gay, too?" This prompted the one being asked to wear an "I like boobies" shirt to rehearsal for a week.

Err... Guilty as charged, here. Never wanted to be camp - in fact, it's slightly embarrassing when it happens now - but there was once a betting pool on my sexuality. A friend coined the term "pyroheterosexual" to describe the phenomenon. Even worse, I've got an ambiguously lesbian best friend, who is currently working on convincing her boyfriend that she's involved with her best ''female'' friend. We're a complicated bunch.

This troper. My friends have speculated, my parents have given me the "We'll still accept you if you're a lesbian, honey! It's okay to like girls!" speech more times than I can count. All because I have not yet had a boyfriend (as of September 2010, I will be a junior in high school), act in a slightly butch way, swear like a sailor, and I loathe dresses. However, I'm actually very attracted to men....and women...so they're half right. Most of them just don't know that yet. Especially not her male best friend. Who, upon finding out, would probably go insane and ask to watch her make out with a girl. As he as already hinted that if she is a lesbian, he really, truly doesn't mind.

Anybody else feel warmer and fuzzier about the fact that there is such a speech?

This Troper's brother love small dogs, went to Brokeback Mountain in theaters, believes every man should have a drag queen as a friend at least once in his, and is completely straight and married. Even his wife thought he was gay at first...

The first time This Troper saw the young music teacher (when she was in highschool)... skipping(actuall a marching band step pace), pulling on a pair of white Micheal Jackson gloves and looking like a Gay Backstreet boy. Then learned from her friends in Band he was in fact, very very straight.

This Troper until a few months back had a landlord who was essentially a study in this. Of course, this may simply be because his first name was spelled "Marque"...which prompted this Troper's sister to immediately jump to the logical conclusion. Throw in being unmarried at 40 and obsessed with cleaning, plus an apparent hatred of every single woman at his workplace, referred to a certain peanut product as "penis butter" and bragged about having had Little Marque photographed for postcards...and since he couldn't really stand this Troper, who is two bottles of detergent below the human average, it was never really worth asking.

This troper's gayness level has reached such a high level that I am described as a 'gay man'. Keep in mind I am a straight woman.

This straight-as-an-arrow troper regularly talks in a really gay voice for comical effect, with appropriate hand gestures and mannerisms. According to his friends, it's frighteningly convincing.

This troper is ambiguosly Gay- to other people. To himself, he's perfectly straight, but I have a lisp(teeth-grinding when I was younger chipped some vital teeth), spiked hair, and my name is Gabriel, shortened to Gabe. Not fun.

This Troper's mother had a male childhood friend whose father died when he was a very small child, so his mother raised him and all of his sisters by himself--he was the only boy in the family. I met him recently, and he seemed completely gay, or at least effeminate--he had the tone of voice, the hand gestures, the shirt, and he even works as an interior decorator. Later, I asked my mother if he was gay, and she said no--he's happily married to a woman and they have a few children together. He had just been raised surrounded by women, so the more "feminine" traits rubbed off on him.

This troper is completely straight. But, at the same time, he enjoys {{squick}}ing out his male friends by hitting on them, but at the same time, feels very awkward about hitting on girls he likes. In a slight subversion of the trope, he also does his best to remind people that he is, in fact, straight.

Are you me?

We should start a club. "Fabulous Straight Men of America."

And if you think that sounds awesome, get a load of this: You are a gay homosexual.

This troper is female and bisexual but acts and dresses butch enough that lesbians are surprised to find out I have a boyfriend.

This troper had a former friend in high school who behaved very effeminately, seemed to have a crush on me, followed me everywhere, collected mood rings and charm bracelets, wore tight shorts, had a little dog named Mr. Cuddles,loved to hang out with little boys,and seemed to have absoulutely no interest in women, on the other hand he wasn't stereotypical in one sense as he had very poor hygiene, although once he did steal a pair of one of my girlfriend's panties at point while she was on lifeguard duty, I have no idea why he did that but have a few theories he might have done it to get back at me for something or he wanted to try a pair on.

This troper's music teacher undergoes much speculation from my group of friends. He's 28 with a girlfriend (After every major/minor holiday, we ask if he proposed. Always no. Alas...), most definitely gels his hair, crosses his ankles when he sits, has a pretty high pitched voice for a 28 year old guy, apparently can sing opera, and his iPod is filled with classical. And not even good classical. Really, you know, gay sounding classical. The only manly thing about him is that he's a Halo fanatic.

So, the only thing manly about him is that he gets "FAGGOT!" screamed at him constantly?

I was raised by women, with the difference that my mother wore combat boots and my sister taught me to fight, so it certainly wasn't an effeminate upbringing. But I must've been androgenous enough for the rumor to go around, time after time, that I may be/definitely am, gay. And I exploited the hell out of this simply by not denying it, not even acknowledging when the question or accusation came around. Every single time the rumor was believed by enough people to make it 'true', I would have the most interesting girls throwing themselves at me. There'd be guys too, but surprisingly few in comparison, and they always seemed shy and reserved enough to tease or ignore them, in comparison with the girls, who were pretty brazen and kinky.

This troper loves chick flicks, showtunes, tap dancing, and the golf clap. This troper is a 1 on the Kinsey Scale.

...Meaning that you are at least a little bisexual?

Aren't we all?

No. 1= Totally straight 6=Totally gay.

One of this tropers friend's little brother acts very effeminate, he speaks in a stereotypical gay lisp, he sometimes wore jewelery and makeup, often used the gay wave, hung out with a group of girls, and often sang songs that were sung by women on stage, many people asked my friend if his brother was gay he replied that he wasn't he was just ridiculously campy.

This Troper can't be the only one who thinks it's just as fun to act like this as it is to put on the LargeHam act. It's probably a reaction to being in my own personal BlueBishonenGhetto. I feel sorry for the female character they introduce next season. Or not.

This troper enjoys musical theatre, 70s and 80s music, girly books, has never had a girlfriend, and actually ''kissed a guy'' at one point. He is totally straight.

This troper knows a guy who speaks like a valley girl and has very...''unique'' habits. Turns out he's very religious. And a homophobe.

This troper's best friend's boyfriend is "the gayest straight guy we know". Most of his friends are girls, he's in the Chorus, he loves musicals...

One of this troper's best friends ''skips'' from place to place, has long hair, and laughs like a girl. He claims he's straight, and she claims to believe him.

This troper's boyfriend is more vain than herself, and he likes some feminine stuff, while herself doesn't; it might be a case of an AmbiguouslyGay couple, since people already asked me if I was a lesbian. This thought passed on my mind, but then, I came to the conclusion that women are not attractive to me at all. I prefer manly shirtless pecs and nice bulges, if you ask me.

One of this troper's friends is this. He talks in a fabulous manner and hangs out with mostly girls. Once, a teacher stopped class and yelled at him and a girl because they were ''talking about their favorite letter to draw''. But his Facebook claims that he only likes women.

This troper used to get this all the time in high school, because he had "pretty eyes" and long, thick, glossy hair (which he still does, but with gray streaks). He tended to respond by saying, "Well, what are you waiting for? My dick ain't gonna suck itself." He is, however, married to a woman. He tried guys, and didn't like it.

Before puberty, this troper was interested in boys and girls about equally and tended to crush on other boys simply because that's who he was friends with. It even got to the point of fantasies involving RescueRomance in one case. When he was about 9-10 he got teased about being a fag (long before he knew what that meant) for wanting to check out other boys' private bits. Then puberty hit, and boys didn't seem so attractive anymore...still didn't keep me from being teased about having Teh Gay (even at times when I was working through incredibly painful crushes on ''girls''). Nowadays I really only go for women, though in practice I'm more-or-less asexual (I get crushes and then never follow through on them because I'm either paranoid or lazy). Girly traps are cute, but dating one? No, too weird. It really, ''really'' doesn't help that I'm (well, was) cute, young-looking, socially insecure and have some decidedly unmanly traits. (It also explains why I like tomboys, too, I suppose.)

I'm sorry, but you seem very adorable...

This male troper agrees.

This troper has a college classmate who's very friendly and helpful and just gives off something as gay. Then I find out he has three kids and is recently divorced

This troper has a best friend who has a high-pitched girly voice, and does very gay handflops. This prompted my girlfriend's father (who doesn't know she's a lesbian) to come to the conclusion that the only reason she's not dating him is because he's gay. Ha ha, yeah no. He has a habit of stroking all the girls in the group (read: EVERYONE) in a very creepy, semi-sexual way...

Also, the same troper above has recently discovered he watches '''Oprah''' regularly. His theme song is now Wanna Do Your Makeup by Scotty Vanity, and the same troper's girlfriend and her have decided he will end up marrying their artsy AllergicToLove for insurance reasons and never ever have sex with anyone ever.

This Troper has a GentleGiant buddy who hangs out with nearly all girls, has very Bishounen mannerisms (we still haven't figured out how he manages this, but he's been called walking shotacon, despite the ridiculous height), and occasionally seems to have a sort of bishie-Armstrongesque sparkle. He loves to gossip and is very much NonActionGuy. He's taken, as well as slightly homophobic--the real gay boy in our Seven Girl Band gleans sadistic pleasure from the results of sitting a little too close, calling him pet names, and on one memorable occasion ''sitting in his lap''. Which, of course, does not help the victim's case. Also, her cousin, who has no FreudianExcuse by way of many female relatives (This Troper is the only girl), is another one of those gayest-straight-man-alive types. But he enjoys it.

This Troper, through high school, almost never hit on girls, only on boys (mostly his friends), and he's sure many people thought him gay. In truth, he's bi and hit on his male friends to make them uncomfortable.

This Troper and his sister knew one guy from high school (two years younger than me, one year older than my sister) who seemed to fit this to the letter, but we weren't sure. Adding to this is that all parties involved (person in question, troper, troper's sis) were attending a Christian school at the time, so if he was, chances are he sure as heck wasn't going to tell anyone.

This troper's younger female cousin behaves more like a man than anyone in her extended family barring her father, who is a retired Marine, to the point that it's an unspoken agreement within this troper's side of the family that her cousin is a lesbian or bisexual.

Many people mistake me for gay, to the point that my friends call me "the friend who isn't gay but we just pretend is". This is because I'm really thin, wear pretty much American Eagle and Aeropostale, I'm into theatre (don't you dare spell it theater), have a necklace that I always wear, and hang out with mostly girls that I wouldn't date.

This troper is bisexual and fits his sexuality by subverting this trope while at the same time playing it straight. On one hand he's thin, has a high voice, limp wrists, loves the theatre, and hangs around girls. On the other he despises flamboyancy, loves hiking, despises Britney Spears,and has no fashion sense at all.

This troper is friends with a boy who frequently stands in gay poses, can do the limp wrist thing perfectly, quotes Madea whenever he can, played a gay hairdresser much too well, and thinks Jacob is the ''hottest'' werewolf on the planet (so much so that he's only going to see the New Moon movie to see Jacob shirtless...the same reason most of my FEMALE friends are going)...and has dated me, along with two or three other girls, and has had a crush on one girl since 7th grade.

This troper's mother had a boss who was exactly this. Everyone in the office thought he was gay. She and a female coworker went to a restaurant one night, and Mom asked her "D'you think Gary's gay?" and the coworker looks at her like she's insane. "No, he's very straight. In fact, I'm dating him."

One of this Troper's best friends is apparently straight (He has a girl friend), but she and many other people have wondered at one point about the boy's sexuality. He's been in a musical (A cutesy one at that), he likes to straighten his hair, he had no qualms over dressing up as an emo boy for Halloween (It was basically an excuse for the girls in our group to put makeup and nail polish on him), sits still for stage makeup application than all of the girls in the cast combined, and does the gay voice a little ''too'' well. When his sexuality is joked about, he makes a big deal about it (A la {{Avenue Q}}). Even after knowing him for 12 years, I'm still not 100% sure.

One hilarious example is this troper's cousin. He's a very good hairstylist, has bleached hair, has an interesting way of speaking, and seems to have a bit of a bounce as he walks. The fun part is that all this pretty much started since he took up hairstyling, and he manages to stay straight.

This troper loves playing up the LesYay with everyone in her school (I got to an all-girl's school, and yes it's quite draining), for no other reason than it's fun and it pleases the shippers. (Yes, I joke about our life being a fandom; me and my best friend are quite OTP, if I do say so myself.) Hugging, hair-stroking, NoSenseOfPersonalSpace, and just the other day I had a great deal of fun flirting with one of the most romance-phobic and tomboyish girls in the grade, giving her a handmade flower for her birthday, with some added (acted) awkwardness and an aura of "confessing". Possible subversion in that I don't actually know ''what'' I am yet, but I'm pretty sure it's been fairly well-established that I like boys. (Whether or not I like girls too, that remains to be found; I do have a bit of an androgyny kink...)

This troper does the same with two of her female friends, well.. one more than the other. This includes dancing with the girls aswell as the boys and being weirdly clingy and all around charming. Although I'm not giving up boys for anything.

Me. I'm a rare female example, and bisexual to boot. Hooray for ambiguity!

Me too, except that I'm straight. I wear superhero t-shirts with jeans, I have a relatively low voice (for a girl), I've never been to a nail salon, I've only been to a hair salon once in my life (when I was about 10), and I'm bored by fashion and chick flicks.

I'm straight, and the same. Everyone seemed to think I was gay, I've been asked about it alot...

This troper has a band mate that keeps talking in a squeaky voice, once wore bows in his hair through all of practice, and frequently flirts with me and other people. Somewhat subverted, though, because a lot of people that have to work with him think he's gay.

This Troper is this in spades...on more then one occasion he's heard the phrase "WAIT WAIT WAIT, YOU'RE STRAIGHT!"

The campest guys This Troper knows are straight (or possibly bisexual, but both of them have had girlfriends).

This troper has a friend who only hangs out with girls, talks in a high voice, is in to a bunch of girly stuff yet has a girl-friend(i still think he's gay). and on a another note, a lot of people think im a lesbian

My brother spends a long time in the bathroom every day doing his hair, has worn jewelery, regularly spends the night at his male friend's house, and on Saturday he's going to see the new ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' movie. He swears he's straight, but would any straight guy willingly go see "New Moon"?

Uh, Kristen Stewart, Ashley Green, Elizabeth Reaser, Nikki Reed? (Admittedly, even they would probably still not be enough to convince a straight guy to see ''New Moon'', but it's possible...)

Don't forget Dakota Fanning!

This Troper has had a field day for the last three years of highschool in JROTC. It started in freshmen year with some guy I hate screwing something up and blaming it on seeing a hot girl, he said 'even insertmyname here was checking her out!' and I said I don't care. Next year or maybe that year, during Christmas I suggested that he molests computers after he refused to stop calling one gay because he was being a dumbass and freezing it. And most recently a new obnoxious freshmen said 'I'm so angry I could punch a gay person. Because I hate gay people.' I respond with, 'And I would punch you back' wait a minute for it to sink in and continue 'because I find that offensive.' This along with many other smaller instances has made almost all the males wonder what I am. The sad thing is if they weren't to terrifed to ask I would tell them I'm a lesbian.

This troper had a male roommate who acted very effiminate, and he and my other roommate had several friends who were gay. I asked my other roommate about it and she said "No, he just acts very effimnate." Years later most of my female friends were either lesbians or bisexual (with a preference towards women). One of them had the best gay pride shirt I'd ever seen, it read "Let's get one thing straight... I'm not!" with each letter of "I'm not" in the gay pride rainbow colors.

This troper had a friend who was all over any girl that moved, however he talked and acted SO gay and effininate that I was never completely sure about him. He was also VERY homophobic.

Trying to explain that I'm not gay would be like saying "I'm gay, but I'm not gay."

This troper is physically what you'd suspect to be a chapstick-verging-on-ButchLesbian: Short dark hair, surly demeanor, stocky build, boyish dress sense, a refusal to wear makeup or jewelry, and a fondness for men's colognes. In personality, however, she is, yes, a feminist and a GLBT ally who mostly enjoys acting practically male CampGay with a side of NoHuggingNoKissing. This is not, however, because she is a lesbian or a transman or even bi and fond of fooling around with gender roles; this troper is asexual, aromantic, and thus sees no point in bothering with gender stuff beyond ease of pronounery. Plus, it's loads and loads of fun.

This troper is a member of the US Military, and ''whoa'', have I become familiar with this trope. It's not that there's a lot of ambiguously gay people in her unit, it's just that with everyone trying to act as straight as possible, the probably-gay ones are large blips on my personal gaydar. It probably helps that I'm not-quite-straight myself.

I was best friends in high school with a man who, until age 13, had hair down to the small of his back. He loved musicals, cooked, was obsessed with fashion etc., but believed that homosexuals were the spawn of Satan. Somehow, we were best friends and I even had a rather large crush on him, yet he still took the time every now and then to remind me I was a deviant.

On the hilarious plus-side, however, I've subverted this trope: Despite being rather camp myself, a friend of mine who was present at my coming out still commented to someone that he thought I "like-liked" a female friend. Yeah... No.

This (female) troper is, apparently, a bit of a "gaydar blind spot." Hates makeup and fashion, plays video games, hangs out a lot with guys, enjoys things with heavy TestosteronePoisoning... And, most notably, if the topic of "What do you find attractive in a man?" comes up, pointedly refuses to discuss it. Nothing about her ''screams'' lesbian either, though. The actual answer?: Straight as an arrow; just nerdy.

This male troper has been introduced as a "closeted straight" before, with several narnia comments. I am extremely camp in behaviour (Limp wrists, hands-on-hips, actually likes fashion, occassionally wears small amounts of make-up, mincing as I walk...), and get along with women much easier than men, so I can see where they're coming from...still straight though, just extremely fabulous ^^

This troper received this back in the lovely days of high school. Given that I love musical theatre, enjoy my skinny jeans and tight(ish) shirts, and got blonde highlights for the lulz, it was kind of inevitable. Bringing a banana to lunch every day in a large, plastic, banana-shape container also led to multiple jokes concerning my sexuality. For the record, straight, just shy around the opposite gender.

This Troper is Bisexual, though he deliberately keeps it ambiguous just for the sake of messing with people's minds.

There is a girl in This Troper's class who is very involved in sports, loves food, wants to join the army, plays guitar, and went as a (fairly convincing) guy for Halloween... And yet, at the same time, has a boyfriend and fangirls over Nick Jonas.

This female troper is an amateur puppeteer, and she recently made a new wolf puppet character who was practically built on this trope for the irony of having a "sheep in wolf's clothing" personality. And also, just to add on to this, he was named "Henry" which was used as a homage to a favorite puppeteer, Richard Hunt (his middle name)who just so happened to be homosexual.

This troper is a genetic bait-and-switch for the male gender. They are drawn to the incredibly feminine features (feathery hair, high voice, childbearing hips, a bangin' rack, etc) that signal fertility...and then BAM! They realize I'm a lesbian.

This troper has a female friend who has a cute little lesbian haircut, wears boys clothes, does boxing as a sport, and works as a fisherman (fisherwoman?). She also claims to be straight and has a computer background consisting of mostly nude and lightly oiled male models.

This male troper is often described as "The Closet Heterosexual". Apparently I trigger the gaydar women have hard, since whenever I ask one out the initial response tends towards "Wait, you're straight?" -_- Just because I care about fashion and wear subtle amounts of make-up and talk with my hands a lot and enjoy romantic films and stories and actually care about and am willing to discuss/admit I actually have emotions and cried at Up and mince when I walk and...well, you get the idea...

This troper's friend is a tall female who has a short, boyish haircut, has broad shoulders, wears men's clothing, and reacts violently to the color pink. Many people actually mistake her for a boy, and because we often walk to classes together, they also tend to mistake us for a couple.

This troper's niece is becoming more and more like your friend every day, much to her niece's friends' irritation.

This troper's husband. Both she and her husband are actually bisexual.

Wow, that's beautiful. :)

This troper absolutely hates gay guys who are like this. But, incidentally, she knows quite a few.

In high school I was into theatre and didn't have a girlfriend. At one point a friend (who I hadn't know for very long) made a gay joke and suddenly stopped laughing, turned to me and asked if I was gay (so as to see if I was offended or anything). I'm not, but the fact that I knew 2 gay guys who were both single made me kinda wish I was.

One of my friends sings countertenor/male alto, prefers falsetto to his normal voice, often makes weird squealing noises, wears pink tshirts, absolutely loves musicals and is unafraid of crying in front of people. He is completely straight and has a 3-year girlfriend.

This Australian Troper, due to being a RalphWiggum (and somehow a GeniusDitz), was always rather flamboyent, and had no inhibitions. I also spent a lot of time with a group that was primarily Homo and Bisexuals (the list of tells goes on). Silent rumours spread. When I was fifteen, I was finally asked for clarity, well, HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday? Two years later, I made a CallBack to that moment, saying 'I wish people still thought I was gay, so I could make groping look like an accident'.

This Troper has a friend whohas a very high voice, listens and sings along to to things by Brittney Spears, ect, and can kick his foot up to head level. He is, he says, totally straight. The funny thing? This Troper is lesbian, so we form a reverse Will & Grace. xD

This Troper has begun to take it for granted that he is generally Ambiguously Gay seeming to new people. I'm a tad... flamboyant due to my high energy and physical nature, and I'm extremely comfortable around people, so that doesn't help things much. I also am an Omni-flirt if I don't make a concerted effort not to, so there's that. Also I make it no secret I'm a fan of musicals and Romantic movies, plus have some history of drunken debauchery.... That said, Totally Straight as a ruler. As people get to know me they split into two camps, those that note my actual history and think I'm some sort of straight manwhore (Not, but exaggeration goes a long way!) and those who think I'm totally overcompensating and will eventually reveal my clearly repressed dude love. :P

Female example! This troper is stereotypically fabulous enough that one of her friends has dubbed her the "gay guy best friend"- even though she's lesbian.

My God. So I'm ''not'' the only one!

This troper is more commonly assumed to be an antisocial sexless freak (which is not altogether untrue), but appears to be a completely unfeminine female who talks about guys and girls with equal frequency, and prefers to maintain ambiguity whenever anyone gets up the balls to ask, unless she is actively interested in getting with them. "Are you gay?" "No." "Are you straight?" "''No''..." She is actually bisexual.

Are you me?

This Troper fits the bill! I cross dress (only with my close friends/myself), wear make-up (mascara), have an affinity for cute things, flowers, make sure I smell nice, try to be nicely groomed, I am a flexible acrobat, high voice, and is a shitload more connected with girls than guys. Though I'm equally as affectionate to guys as I am to girls etc. However, even then with the Anvilicious hints, people are still able to be convinced I'm straight. One of the reasons why I'm popular is that despite my femininity and everything, is that I can still convince others that I'm straight and I have inklings of Badass TsunDere! I don't have the major flaming (like the specific voice/movements) characteristics though... but considering how I'm a shota this is justified to some extent.

This troper has waist-length curly black hair, tends to wear fitted shirts, wears eyeliner, is not averse to wearing skirts, and has a feminine face. I also wear a knee-length black trench coat, play trombone, have a tenor singing voice, play lots of violent video games, and I live on the internet. No one can ever seem to make up their minds as to whether I'm straight or gay. (Answer: I'm a lesbian.)

This troper is ambiguously lesbian. She has no interest in boys aside from friendship (and when her parents talk about boyfriends or marriage she responds with noticeable disgust), has no feminine interests, will not wear skirts or dresses under any circumstance, associates with typically masculine things, does not care about her appearance, doesn't share the same interests as other girls her age, has frequent thoughts of wanting to be male, and has a low voice most of the time (even though her voice is actually somewhat high it usually sounds quite low for someone of her age, either gender). She is a fan of all things yuri, hates yaoi, and would much rather be around boys than girls. The only thing feminine about her is her noticeable figure, her mindset, her hair style, her name, quite a few of the shows and books she likes, and her voice. Her parents have even slipped and referred to her both as a ''boy'' and referred to her needing a "girlfriend" (before quickly fixing their mistake). She gets rather easily flustered around females, especially when compared to boys, but gets along very well with them if they like what she likes. Turns out this troper is neither gay, straight, bi, pan, or poly.. She's ''{{Asexual}}'', and an aromantic one at that meaning she likes no one in a romantic or sexual sense. To add insult to injury, she identifies as ''male''.

This troper's friend at one point, at a bar, began pointing out who she thought was gay or straight. When she got to me she spent a few seconds thinking, then said, "He's.... Well, I don't even think he knows." ensues.

In my group back in High School, we had two guys. One was the son of a forester, had a manly beard, enjoyed making obnoxious jokes, was in conditioning and would often stare at girls breasts. The other loved theater, old movies, classical music and mostly hung out with girls. Guess which one was gay.

This troper made a character like this. He talks in a near-ValleyGirl accent, is quite fond of glitter and stars, and calls people "hun" a lot. Another character even called him out on it, to which he responded by kissing a random girl and saying, "As soon as I get home, I'm watching sports!" However, this troper is firmly in neutral ground as far as his sexuality goes. It probably doesn't help that there was an AU in which he was in love with a male character.

One of this troper's friend is considered this by people who don't know him very well. He is fond of wearing pink and purple, earrings, growing his hair long, and is evoking HoYay with his close friends. He is also a Bishonen. However anyone who talks to him for five minutes realizes that he is a girl-obsessed horndog with an insanely dirty mind.

This (mostly gay) troper was this to her dad for... most of her life, apparently. He said he's always assumed I wasn't straight, but since I didn't come out to him until a year ago (I was sixteen) he had no way of knowing for sure. Turns out, he was pretty much right.

This troper just started High School, and can't even begin to count how many people I've met so far that fit this...

This troper has a coworker who has bemoaned the fact that he has trouble meeting women because everyone thinks he's gay. The (mostly straight) troper has pointed out that he obsesses over his clothes, shoes and hair, cooks, and likes musicals, whereupon he returned that someone who wears a camouflage jacket and combat boots, drinks bourbon straight up and spends her weekends tinkering with her bike has no room to blame someone else for falsely tripping gaydar.

I'm pretty sure that the (very nice, very helpful, MALE) store-clerk at Sally's the other day was wearing eyeliner. Plus his hair was just amazing. And he was quite fashionable.

This troper recently descovered that he's MistakenForGay by everyone when they first meet him, Chandler-style irony since he's not even sure what he is (Most likely straight, though). In fact today I had to explain this quality to the reason a Friend's Gaydar picked me up. Considering how I live in a place that is generally homophobic I did used to get insulted by it until I decided that I'd rather be CampStraight then normal.

Dear everybody who posted on this page, in case it hasn't dawned on you yet, from, y'know, all these examples of CampStraight guys... GAY IS NOT A PERSONALITY TRAIT.

Amen to that.

There is one guy in my drama class, who acts incredibly flirtatious with ''everyone''. But I'm pretty sure he's not bisexual. He never dates anyone. And has no sense of personal space when it comes to people regardless of gender, which is okay though, because he's attractive.

One of my friends has told me recently that one of my other friends thinks I like her. This confuses me to no end, as I have explicitly told my friends that I am gay. The first friend never really knew until I said I was (medium build, long hair, no sense of style, not flamboyent, a necklace I wear all the time, etc. The usual combination of both attributes). Apparently she (second friend) thinks I'm lying about being gay, that I stalk her, that I'm obsessed with her. Ya. . . right. Definitely gay over here, no matter what my appearance may say.

This troper has a voice teacher who I've been going to since I was 13. I'm 17, and in retrospect, it's funny to see how he's "come out" to me as I've matured and my tolerance has become more apparent. For example, if the line in the song said "he", he would substitute "she". Now we just sing the same line. Or say we're discussing Justin Beiber (don't ask), I've heard MANY times "Oh, I have such a crush on him." Really, I hate he is gay because my fangirl self is sort of in love with him. He is a southern, sassier Stephen Fry. No. Really. He even kisses me on the forehead sometimes. *squee* Ok, now I need to stop. But honestly, he gets me a dozen roses every year on my birthday. I mean, who does that anymore?

I often comment on how adorable anime characters are, I'm a fan of loli art, and I adore moe characters. I'm a girl. Even I'm getting confused.

This tropette feels somewhat this way about ''her cat'' (of all things). He would fall under ambiguous Manly Gay because he does not like to be cuddled (most of the time, anyway - especially with me), and yet he can get ''really'' snuggly with the dog. Also, out of all the human household, he likes my dad the best, and again, could care less about AnimalJingoism towards the dog. On the other hand, if his reaction to a local she-cat is anything to go by, I probably shouldn't worry. My other cat is arguably CampStraight, being the more passive big softy and the polar opposite of his "brother".

@/DesertDragon: I'm quite '''un'''ambiguously gay, but I once dated a guy--even had a steamy makeout in the park with him--without knowing for sure if he was at least bi. And he knew as much as I did. Even a year after we agreed to just be friends, I'm still not sure which way he swings, and I don't think he is either. Granted, I've long since moved on with my love life, but I do hope he gets it together at some point, even if it's with a girl after all.

I'm an hetero-romantic asexual girl, which kinda shows: My lack of interest in sex is kinda obvious by being very loud and somewhat boisterous, as well as being quite the nerd - I never appear to be interested in being in a relationship with someone unless I really spell it out - pretty much, I'm a nerdy equivalent of being "one of the lads". This has, however, given a lot of people the impression that I'm a lesbian, even though I don't actually look that masculine. I have a slightly deeper voice than most girls, though, so I'll give them credit for that.

I'm trying to work this trope as much as possible so I never actually have to come out. It seems waaaaay too awkward.

My very tomboy-ish sister was this, until she came out a few weeks ago. Ironically, the only boy she says she will ever remain attracted to is the guy who screwed her over so badly that it's what arguably turned her off men in the first place.

This (female) troper is sort of a subversion of this trope; she's ambigiously bisexual Abnormally tall and strong, buys and wears men's clothing, and often gets cast in male roles, yet she enjoys knitting, makeup, and becomes physically debilitated by small fluffy things. She's a hard crunchy outside with a fluffy core, and she's had more than one person exclaim disbelief that she's not actually a lesbian.

This troper has gotten it so much she thinks she may actually be gay now. Does not help that she was made fun of for being such. Go back to the AmbiguouslyGay page--it's ''faaaabulous!'' NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat.