I did this to my friend around the girl my friend has a crush on. What's better? He escalated it IfYouKnowWhatIMean?

Me and my friend do this just for laughs. And people buy into it, all the time.

This troper does it with her friends all the time. Non-theater people usually don't realize we're just acting.

Same for This troper.

This troper attends a gender-separated school, and both groups get up to this all the time. You may commence completely unwarranted nosebleeds. It's mostly for kicks and giggles, though things have been known to get awkward.

This troper was having problems with the resident popular girl flirting with the guy she liked so one day (partially because of a dare) in the middle of class I went up to her and shouted "I love you!" and hugged her. She and most of the grade were notably freaked out but I became a hero amongst my group of friends. Oh and since it was middle school for some reason people actually believed it to be true. Also for some reason my teacher didn't really care.

Not sure if it counts, but this troper, upon notcing that all her other friends were pairing off, immediately started to act all snuggly with her single friend just to freak everyone out. The friend went along with it, for the record.

This troper's friend was planning on pretending to be gay for April Fool's Day, with this troper proposing to be the pretend boyfriend. It didn't come to fruition, though.

Not quite the same, but yesterday (April Fools Day) this (female and otherwise asexual) troper sent a message to a female friend confessing my love for her. In my mind, I was thinking that she would be less likely to laugh in my face (erm...avatar, since it was online?) if there was a possibility of it all being a joke. She then stated that she was bi, which I took as an actual fact, which it wasn't, forgetting what day it was. Oh well, you can't live with 'em, you can't live without 'em.

Have you ever been called "gay" as a generic, uncreative insult that doesn't mean anything? Whenever someone says this to me, if its a guy (and it is ''always'' a guy) I just say "Really? Thats FABULOOOOUUUS!" and hug them if they are close enough that I don't have to walk over.

You win, sir.

People acting this way for attention is a BerserkButton for This lesbian Troper.

Ditto. Especially since it usually involves enforcing stereotypes.

My friends do this all the time, but their acting is way over the top and sometimes lapse into a Shakespeare-ish drama featuring the Dude In Distress and his WhitePrince.

Occurred in This Troper's high school marching band with both genders-- the color guard and some of the female woodwind players for LesYay, and some of the low brass for HoYay. It was always played for laughs, but one occasion was most memorable: before the yearly trip (on which we were going to an amusement park as well as a competition) our director mentioned that he always liked the park because he could find out what wacky couples ensued. We were all a bit weirded out by this; cue the low brass section deciding that every time they passed the director in the park, they'd jump on each other.

ThisTroper does it whenever someone tries to tease him with a potentially gay situation and expects the knee-jerk ewwies that het guys are supposed to do. For example: A girlfriend set up a pic of me with another guy and before taking the shot, said "Look, it's a picture of my gay friends!" Well, she got a shot of me groping his package and licking the side of his throat. She later informed me that he really ''is'' gay, and a little turned on. I had to laugh, because ''she'' was the one embarrassed about it! (I really have no shame...)

This Troper does it to his friend - but only when his friend's girlfriend is around. His girlfriend has, on more than one occassion, told me to keep my hands in her sight at all times.

This Tropes does it on a certain forum he's frequenting, just for the lulz. He leaves "I LOVE YOU" messages on random people (of the same gender)'s pages; when someone comments on another person's "gay" signature, he pipes in with "I LIKE that kind of signature!"; and even outright stating "I'm gay"... on April Fools' Day. It's far too fun.

This Troper isn't sure if this counts as a Troper Tale, since he was not involved in any way other than seeing this on TV. However, there was a generic talk show (all I remember is that there was a white female host to the show) that had a segment on a woman and her late-teens-to-early-twenties daughter who pretended to be a lesbian couple on order to avoid being hit on by guys. He caught this bit maybe a decade ago at the latest...

This troper was at the mall today with my also-female friend, and we were, as usual, acting wonderfully gay (it started as gag for our friends, but continues in our private time-still just for kicks). We were sharing a milkshake (drinking from two straws, faces a few inches apart, looking into each other's eyes--yeah, it was a little too strong even for me) and generally being les when some guys approched us. I'd looked at them, table ooposite of us, a couple times, just cuz the public kept giving us weird looks and it was fun look around and see...... but I guess it looked like we were being flirty and acting les FOR THEM, and they wanted our numbers. Ensue awkward "no thanks..."

This Troper. Horribly so mostly because he's pretty much a walking embodiment of ForTheEvulz.

(From a male troper) ...and then there was that one time a friend of mine slept over and we spent the whole night flirting with each other and jokingly trying to get into each other's pants (in between bouts of true confessions, him complaining about people, me talking about my ginger fetish, and him trying [and failing] to convince me that he knocked up his extremely conservative girlfriend). It was...quite a bizarre experience to say the least. We agreed never to speak of it again, for obvious reasons. Off-topic: Dude stole my [=iPod=] and changed my Facebook status at one point.

ThisTroper has had to do SEVERAL double takes at the guys in her youth group. They all do this, as a group. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. OF. THEM. It's like some kind of unstated rule.

This troper does this by some sort of weird habit with all her friends. She goes from normal (actually closeted) bisexual to EVERYONE GET IN MY PANTS. It's worst with her group's girliest member.They often flirt, pretend to be a couple,and in general creep everyone out. They've even changed their relationship status to "It's Complicated" on Facebook.

Often done in my group of friends in order to weird out one member of the group who is very traditionally homophobic. He generally reacts with a combination of disgust, exasperation, and hilarity.

Recently the same troper and a {{Bishonen}} friend were at a sleepover with a couple of (platonic) lady friends. They were aware that the girls were both Yaoi Fangirls, and teased them the whole night, hugging, stroking, groping, even almost kissing a couple of times. Needless to say, the girls were ''beyond'' turned on more than once, the less restrained one actually had to change her underwear. Most surprising/disturbing of all though, the troper actually got a little turned on himself once or twice. Enjoy ladies.

This Troper and her boyfriend do this to make each other jealous. He and his friends are all over each other in front of me, and in front of the class. And so my best friend and I hold hands, say 'I love you' and almost kiss. Whistling and clapping from teenage boys ensue, much to the annoyance of my boyfriend, who always loses.

This troper and her friend do this for shits and giggles. She calls me her boyfriend, steals my jacket, and will glomp me without warning if my back is turned.

It would probably surprise people how often this happens with LDS Missionaries, all behind closed doors of course...

This troper does it for the laughs with all of his male friends. I like to keep people guessing, and it certainly stops my parents from asking about girls and generally nosing in on my life.

This female troper was nicknamed Faux Beau by one of her female friends. The term originated from a time we went clubbing. She couldn't escape a drunken man and signaled me to help her. I grabbed her hand and yanked her out of his grip, which is usually enough, but when he started to stagger after us, I pulled her into my arms, gave him a shove, and snapped, "Back off my girlfriend!" Never mind that I'm the straight one and she's bi...