It's essentially a law for gay/bisexual people that you ''will'' fall in love with/crush on at least one straight person in your lifetime. Mathematically, it's impossible to fully escape this trope. Gaydar, unfortunately, is far from perfect, if it exists at all.

And if you are straight and think GirlOnGirlIsHot or are a YaoiFangirl, the same applies to you.

You think falling for someone gay or straight when you're the opposite is tough? Try falling for someone ''asexual.''

I've had the unfortunate luck to have have been in ''both'' of those situations. Twice in a row.

Likewise.

Wait, why would that be incompatible? Unless they're aromantic, of course, but most asexuals aren't.

The topic of sex would have to come up eventually, and it would kill the mood if I were dating someone asexual and he was only putting out to please me and wasn't actually enjoying himself. I might as well pay him in that case.

Try ''being'' the asexual. I was very clear from the get-go that I wasn't really interested in sex, but I'd be willing to try it if he was willing to wait for me to be ready. He got tired of waiting.

I'm so sorry. Really.

Thank you.

Wow, I thought I was the only one with this problem.

I developed a serious crush on an asexual once. Not long after I found out, I admitted to my crush, and apologized for anything untoward I may have done.

This troper was the asexual. It didn't end well.

This troper was also the asexual. It also didn't end well. Not helped by the disapproval of my friends and family, as my then-boyfriend was older than my parents.

This troper has fallen hard for a gay man ''twice''. The first time time, she honestly didn't know the guy was gay (he hadn't come out yet, and he's more StraightGay than CampGay) and the other time she knew, but ended up with feelings for him anyway despite her best efforts to quell them. It sucked.

This troper once heard a rumor that two members of her cast were hooking up. This troper laughed her ass off because she knows that it would never happen for three big reasons: He's gay. She's a lesbian. She already has a girlfriend. Whoops! XD

This troper is a bisexual female. Her friend is a straight female. Urgh.

Oh ChrisColfer, why must you be gay when you tempt me so with your adorableness and acting ability and Woobie-face? *mourns*

He and Neil Patrick Harris are definitive proof that God loves gay men and wants them to be happy.

Rewording Benjamin Franklin. Nice one.

This straight female troper had a long-standing crush on a gay male friend. What we're in now could best be described as a romantic friendship, which is just fine with me, because I get to tell him I love him. <3

This bisexual troper is trying to rid herself of a crush on one of her best friends since the friend is very definitely straight. It's not working :( (Oh, also, even if she did lean, I doubt she'd admit it since she's a very devout Christian.)

My ''exact'' situation. It's a bitch.

...seriously wondered there for a moment that I'd posted this and forgotten I'd done so. Damn.

Me four!

Are you guys me?

Five. ;-; I've been trying to subtly hint at my feelings to her, and I have no idea if she's reciprocating in *that* way or not. We're both furries, a people known for being... more open to physical stuff like cuddling without feeling those things, so I can't tell whether she's just being friendly or not. And she's Christian, though not too devout (or rather, she's just open minded; hell, she's okay with my Paganism and bisexuality)... I'm not quite in a lost case yet, so keep your fingers crossed for me, guys.

I like to think I'm an aversion to this, because I can't honestly find myself wanting to actually be with someone who is not gay.

This troper, by some BLESSED MIRACLE OF GOD, finds a way to both subvert and avert this. She is now in a (quite serious, actually) relationship with a girl who is viciously straight. I kept my feelings a secret from her for a very long time for this reason, but when I finally got up the courage to come clean the best possible response has made me the happiest (albeit undeserving) gal around.

You lucky son of a...

*murmurs angrily*

This Troper has a very malfunctioning (or nonexistent) gaydar. She had a celebrity crush on Chris Colfer. A good chunk of gay people she sees in fiction, she guesses that they are CampStraight. Now, she may or may not have a crush on a gay guy, depending on whether or not something she heard from a GossipyHen is true.

It's essentially become a running joke that everyone this troper's friend gets a crush on likes boys. Said friend is a girl.

This troper has a crush on a friend who technically goes both ways, but generally prefers guys so much more that he's effectively gay. On a semi-related note, she also might have a crush on a different friend who's straight. (though, for that friend "straight" could mean "mostly likes the opposite gender with a few same-sex crushes here and there."

This female troper is bi and has a terrible habit of falling for flirty, straight girls. So then this troper ends up liking a guy from work...guess who's gay?

Subverted: This bisexual troper had feelings for a guy he knew for a while, who for about 6 months was under the impression was straight: turns out he's pansexual, and we've been dating for over a month as of this writing.

Has every other straight male made his way onto this page and just fought the urge to mention Portia de Rossi? I mean, '''''come on!!''''' I'm actually starting to wonder whether things would be better for all the Portia fanboys out there if Ellen [=DeGeneres=] "mysteriously disappeared"...

...No?

Inverted: I, a straight female, have a close friend who's bi-leaning-gay and who is also everything I would ever want in a love interest except for male. I'd consider experimentation just to see if it's possible to make it work (she once expressed interest in a 'if you weren't straight' way), except I don't want to lead her on and/or have it not work out and ruin our friendship...

Go for it. Just make it clear at the start that you're not sure if you'll like it.

A girl I know has a big crush on this guy, who she keeps flirting with. She hasnt realised yet that he is gay, and has a big crush on my (male) best friend, who isnt gay. I also had a best friend in high school, who was a lesbian but had a crush on me (asexual)

This one time, this bisexual troper's RomanticTwoGirlFriendship kind of had some threads of SheIsAllGrownUp appear in it after an initial encounter with a ClosetKey (sadly, the straight kind). Due to PoorCommunicationKills I went along thinking that she liked both as well for months before coming to terms with the fact that she just wouldn't love me any time soon.

This troper just found out that the girl he was crushing on is a lesbian. A girl that is generally fun to be around, shares many of the same interests, and would have been worth it if not for the orientation. But hey, that's life, right? It's not like I was seriously interested in her...I'm fine. Totally fine. Yep.

I just spent five to ten minutes scrolling through pansexuals, asexuals, transexuals, homosexuals, bisexuals, the genderqueer, the aromantic--it feels '''so good''' to know that there is another man out there falling for a lesbian. Cos I'm on my third, and it ''blows''.

Third? Wow, I thought I'm the only one with such a terrible luck

I'm bi, and my best friend is so straight that he doesn't even seem to enjoy physical contact. And he is mostly asexual, too, and has very low standards, so being female is the only thing you need. I'm pretty much obsessed with him, and I can NOT get over him. We have almost the same interests, but we're definitely distinct in other ways and a great match. But yeah. Straight. And I'm stuck being in love with him. And on top of that, he likes my sister. Ugh.

OMFG! dude I´m, I'm terribly sorry, I hope you can get over your crush on him

As someone who is bisexual, I hate hearing people say they wish they could be bisexual because then they'd have a chance with everyone on the planet. Idealistically, it would work that way, but in reality, it wouldn't up their chances to 100%. It'd only add in the other bisexual people and gay/lesbian people. Being bi doesn't automatically mean even straight people of your gender will be interested in you.

Rant aside, I've also fallen for gay guys and an asexual guy before. Luckily, the only girls I fall for tend to be lesbian/bisexual.

As it's said, being bi doesn't mean you've got twice the chance of hearing a "yes"; it means you're twice as likely to be rejected on a Saturday night, by the gays for being "too straight" and the straights for being "too gay." :/

This Troper is lesbian, but has been stuck deep in the {{Asexuality}} closet for ages. In middle school, one of the guys in her gaming group had a rather overt crush on her (he eventually got over it and started dating one of her friends, then moved to a different school where she hasn't heard of him since and frankly doesn't want to because he was a {{Munchkin}}). Now, one of her game group friends' (male) {{Shadowrun}} character has a crush on her (lesbian) character. He also seems to have a pretty overt crush on her in real life... she is the only person whose character gets a potential love interest in the games he GM's.

This troper is a variation. He's ''{{Asexual}}'' and ''{{Transsexual}}''. He's borderline aromantic, if not aromantic with a curiositye fac for romance. Girls seem him as a girl, due to the fact he's pre-transition.

My first love was my best friend. She had a boyfriend and wasn't into girls. Love Hurts.

In high school, T.T. seemed to get crushes on nothing ''but'' gay men. Reverse {{Gaydar}}? Her GayBestFriend, thankfully, was spared due to good timing on the part of the Westermark effect. In a humorous situation, she and said friend met the same gay guy independently and ''both'' crushed on him before realizing they crushed on the same guy.

This troper has been part of a version of this which took things BeyondTheImpossible. I'm a bisexual girl, who fell for a gay guy, who was in turn attracted to a straight guy, who liked a girl who at the time identified as asexual (but who now apparently considers herself bi). I can't decide if the entire thing was hilarious or sad.

... and now I've managed to get a crush on an almost-certainly-straight female friend. I just have to like an asexual now to complete the IncompatibleOrientation trifecta.

While I feel bad for all of you here, in my case, this was a source of great joy (via schadenfreude). My girlfriend dumped me pretty hard, in a way that was...best described as rude. She talked about how she was too young for a relationship, but three months later started pursuing this guy pretty hard, and would not stop talking about him via social networking sites. Already kind of bummed, this caused me to not eat for a week. Turns out...well, look at the page. I'm probably a bad person for being cheered up by this, but damn if I was not cheered up by this.

This troper gets this triple-fold. He's {{Asexual}}, {{Transsexual}}, and straight. Girls have a hard time dating him because he is biologically female and lacks a sex drive (plus he dislikes kissing), and boys want to date him but he's simply not attracted to men besides friendship. He's gotten into a few one-sided versions of incompatibility at his side.

Wait... Asexual ''and'' straight? Don't you mean heteroromantic?

Yea, of course. It's just easier stating it the other way, for people don't get what "heteroromantic" means.

This troper is bisexual but not biromantic - she likes women sexually but only falls in love with men. She's not sure why, but she prefers to mostly stay in the closet as a result, since being open about it seems to inevitably lead to people getting hurt ''even when she doesn't sleep with them''. It gives her some sympathy for straight men who are accused of using women when they never agreed to commitment in the first place.

This troper's friend, a straight male, is in love with her, a lesbian. In turn, said troper loves a straight girl.

Wouldn't it suck if said straight girl loved said straight male? (Sorry to hear that, though. I hate getting tangled in this trope. Which is any time I have a crush. I'm a lesbian, too, btw.)

To properly complete the chain of suck, the straight girl should love a gay guy who loves the straight guy.

This bi and closeted trooper has a friend (the Mistress of the Mixed Message) whom she has absolutely and utterly and totally ''adored'' for as long as she's known her (several years now). The friend is very fond of touching this trooper (face, hair, ears, neck, anywhere not covered by clothes (and considering we met on a sports team, that doesn't say much)), biting her, trying to make her skip class to be with her, standing/sitting/''lying'' very close to (read: occasionally ''on'') her; driving her just about stark raving insane. This trooper guesses this sounds a lot like flirting, but, goddammit, this trooper is pretty sure that her crush is straight. So ''why is she leading me on like this!?''

This troper has been though it, having a crush on her female best friend. I knew it wasn't ever going to happen, so I was fine with it, until the day of graduation where she was telling me to fix my collar and I answered "For a kiss." Her reaction was to go "AM I THE ONLY STRAIGHT ONE HERE?!" while I started laughing, only to start laughing even harder when our other friends went "... Probably."

This bisexual (male) troper has developed an interesting variation of this trope. He keeps falling for closeted/in-denial lesbians. He even married one of them. (Ouch, by the way.) He's since learned that several of his teenage crushes, both personal and celebrity, have since come out of their respective closets as lesbians. He has seriously considered giving up on the female gender entirely on account of this.

I recently discovered that the guy I thought I may have been in love with is gay. Yeah, it was a real kick in the teeth, but I'm fine with us just being friends.

I ,a straight male dated a girl in the two year period i was gone from my hometown who was from my town and actually lived close to me and knew all the same people as me. she got back to town acouple of months before i did. When I got back to town i ran into her a couple of months later and we started hanging out. I started to have very strong feelings for her, but when i finally grew the balls to admit my feelings for her, because shes so stunning and im not anywhere near her level even if she doesnt seem to notice that, she informed me that she realized she was a lesbian and came out of the closet while i was gone. To add more frustration to the mix she unknowingly flirts with me, and when i told her i was planning to leave town, possibly for good, she asked me to wait for her to finish college first and didnt give a reason. Its quite confusing for me.

This troper was the only one in the entire school who didn't know. I found out six months and several bouts of suicidal depression later.

This Troper is a Bi Male who leans heavily towards females over males. He's Ex-Girlfriend/Best Friend recently came out of the closet as a full Lesbian. We both agree that under different circumstances we'd be perfect for each other after. What makes this so hard is that she is in love with a girl who emotionaly and sometimes physicaly abusive to her. I've been trying to help her get over her, it's the least I can do because she's the only person this Troper has ever been in love with.

This decidedly straight female troper developed what you ''might'' call a platonic personality-crush on another straight girl; ironically enough, it started promptly after we had a joking conversation about the number of gay or bi people at our school, with both of us in turn affirming that we did not belong to that category. It may have started out as me trying to prove (needlessly, since I had already established this) that I ''wasn't'' gay and hoping that she didn't think that I had a crush on her after that conversation (again, I don't know how I got this into my head), and then I must have convinced myself that I ''did'' have a crush on her, because why ''else'' would I be so desperate to prove otherwise? For a few months, I stayed quiet around her because I was nervous to say the wrong thing, but she was the type who wouldn't talk to anyone unless they said something first, so I knew I had to say something, and once I did start to open up more, I would have given anything to have those first few months back so that I could really get to know her better. Thankfully, I stopped worrying, and we became okay friends. She was a bit older than me, though, and graduated recently; while I didn't want to let such a potentially great friend slip through the cracks, I don't have the guts to ask her to hang out with me one-on-one, because I feel like I don't know her well enough, and don't want to overstep my boundaries and have to go through the "Does she have the wrong impression?" thing again. I'm stuck in a rut here, and it really, really sucks.

This troper considers herself mostly asexual and aromantic...and the only boys she's ever felt anything resembling strong feelings for have been gay (even before she was a YaoiFangirl).

This (male) troper has somehow gotten himself into a relationship where both sides are an incompatible gender to the other... somehow. I'm pretty much gay (pansexual really, but I would much rather be the bottom in a gay relationship than the top in a straight one like I am now), and she's... complicated. Sexually anxious about being with a guy because of the unfamiliarity of the... parts, since she was in a long-term lesbian relationship before I helped her out of it (it was emotionally abusive, and she wasn't the one doing the abusing)... not to mention that my having had no real experience with an ordinarily-paced relationship made me move WAY too fast without realizing it was bad, so now I've pushed her away by making her want to slow down and even go backwards. I'm fine with waiting, but, uh... waiting for years for you to be ready to start doing so much as kissing and necking again wasn't what I had in mind when I said I was fine with waiting.

This bi troper has the hugest celebrity crush on StephenFry; if she could have a threesome in real life with no consequences, it would be with him and HughLaurie.

Hi, I'm a lesbian. Pretty much all of my crushes I've ever had have been on straight girls. Also, some guys have attempted to flirt with me, which has been really awkward because I only recently came out of the closet, so I couldn't just tell them "SorryImGay".

This troper recently found out the guy she's been in love with for nearly two years may be gay. Given, it was just off hand speculation from a friend, but the comment was still enough to rattle her a bit. --- Go back to IncompatibleOrientation, even though it doesn't swing that way.