This troper's father is frequently this when not around his wife and kids. He lovesFrench culture, is damn skinny (why can't I have his metabolism?), and is into musical theater. If by that you mean "is an 18th century opera expert".

This troper is frequently mistaken for asexual by classmates, probably because I've never had a boyfriend or actively pursued one. Strangely enough, I'm considered something of a memetic molester among my friends.

Subverted with this troper's friend. He was infamous for hitting on girls and going out with as many girls as humanly possible, despite having really well-combed hair and an interest in show choir, and many people who didn't know his romantic history thought him to be gay. Then he came out.

This Troperette. Apparently being a tomboy with short hair after puberty means I'm a butch lesbian. Though the most prominent example I can think of..This one girl at work.. first thing she ever said to me was "you look like a lesbian! *giggles*"

This "pro-homo", yaoi-fangirl, tomboy tropette and her best friend (who gained the nickname 'Kitty' back when we were kids) are mistaken for lesbains a lot, most notebly by a gay couple at their wedding: #QUOTE# Groom: Is she your girlfriend? #QUOTE# Me: (splutter) No, (akward chuckle) no.

Once again, this has happened. Our mutual (admitedly rude and pervy) friend asked me if we were, cos he wouldn't mind watching. Cue Spit Take.

This troper. Apparently not having a girlfriend = gay. I don't even fit in most of the stereotypes either. I haven't combed my hair in years, no fashion sense (is still told my clothes don't match), football fan and I walk like a gorilla (seriously trying to get out of this, it looks retarded I assure you). Nevertheless I've been asked several times if I was gay.

Same. Except this Troper is mistaken for a lesbian because she didn't have a boyfriend at the time. I don't fit any stereotypes either, I just didn't want to be in a relationship and didn't find anyone attractive. Then, I met my boyfriend, and people told me to not bother crushing on him, because he's gay. He's not. We've been dating for 2 years and people still insist we're each other's {{Beard}}.

This troper keeps a score of how often he is asked if he is gay: at least 8 people that I can think of now, and at least two of those have asked multiple times. It always amuses me that they assume I must be straight after denying it - if I act like I'm gay, to the point of checking out hot guys, surely the next logical step would be to ask if I'm bi. According to my actually gay friend, at least 2 mutual friends + his mother also believe I am gay, but never ask. The again, I do sing the part of Mimi/Collins in our random RENT {{Group Songs}}

This troper is really tomboyish and is not looking for a relationship. So of course her dad worries "oh no, SHE'S BUTCH!!!!". So now I carry a shoulderbag and paint my nails just to calm him down.

Two of this troper's best friends are *constantly* being mistaken for gay. In high school, one of our classmates started writing RealPeopleFanfiction (not kidding!) about everyone in our grade and they quickly became the FanPreferedCouple. The real irony? They are straight as arrows. Nobody even suspected that I was the gay one.

....Did I go to high school with you? I actually did this in high school and had my two good friends getting together and they became a FanPreferredCouple though both straight.

This troper's parents are still convinced that one of this troper's guy friends is gay. Just because he's an actor and was rather androgynous as a child doesn't mean...

This troper has a gay best friend. At an all boys catholic school. Doesn't like sports or other "manly" activities, preferring drama club or just reading a book. And is 100% straight. Though many people I know (both from my school and from out of it) are convinced that I'm gay, it actually stopped bugging me after a while and I came to regard it as simply inaccurate rather than insulting, as though someone was trying to convince me my (brown) hair is blonde. It definitely sucked when a girl I was interested in asked me how my boyfriend was doing, however.

This troper tries to make people think this, by saying really disturbing things.

Total inversion: despite ''actually'' being in a lesbian relationship, this troper and her partner are constantly mistaken for sisters by random passersby, shop clerks, waiters, and so forth.

"We's close."

Non-funny real-life example: This editor spent a good portion of his middle school years telling people "I'm not gay. I'm just autistic," due to people mistaking his mannerisms for stereotypical gay behavior. If it happened to someone else, it would have been funny.

This troper graduated high school a year ago and is still having to tell people that. So hey, it's happening to someone else, there's your funny.

This troper is in college, and apparently no one believes him when he explains that.

This troper's pretty sure there's a few (or possibly a lot) of people who think he's gay, due to his Asperger's and not being very manly (skinny, likes to have somewhat long hair, likes fluffy and cute stuff), but it doesn't offend him at all. Instead I'm highly amused by it, and might actually rub it in. ...okay, so my favourite anime genre is Shonen-Ai (Ooooh, pretty boys!), and I think more flat-chested girls are attractive. Make of that what you want.

That you're me + aspiedom?

That there need to be a ''ton'' of guys more like you out there?

Um...blush...? ...that's me feeling embarassed...mostly...not that you would see much of it...

This troper is both autistic and gay. I, too, was 'mistaken' for gay for years before I came out and now am often 'mistaken' by the LGBT community for autistic. It's all very confusing.

Real life example: this troper heard from a psychology professor about a friend of hers who referred to his live-in girlfriend as his "partner" in a job interview. He got hired because the company wanted to appear more gay-friendly, and they were stuck with him when the truth came out.

This Troper and his best friend have been mistaken for gay at least twice that I can remember. We both find it hilarious.

This troper's friend attended High School at an Arts magnet school and dresses with notable flamboyance. He's fond of noting that he eventually had to come out as straight.

I'm an asexual, homoromantic pre-op transman! People don't really have a hope of getting it right! They also have trouble understanding this so I have to tell them that I'm a gay man, who isn't interested in sex and who is currently trapped in a female body (but not for much longer - YAY)

I can relate (and also to the aspie example above), only I'm mtf and bi. Generally people just think I'm gay so, well, I go with it. Much, much easier and less awkward to explain.

This troper may be effete with a love of cooking and art, and can get very girly at a moment's notice, and acts incredibly gay at Rocky Horror, but is straight as an arrow. Still, many think otherwise.

This troper is often mistaken for homosexual when not being mistaken for someone of the opposite gender, which is often. I find it amusing and flattering, really.

This troper mentioned, during a seminar at University, that he was heterosexual. The response from his professor? 'I'd have lost a bet on that one.' Not the only time it's happened, but the most amusing incident that I can think of...

This troper totally failed to hook up with a girl visiting one of my friends once because the girl saw me with another friend and thought we were gay.

This troper and his buddy have been told by the one girl in our buddy trio not to try and pick up women together as we come off as gay to her some times, even though we aren't flamboyant and she knows are both straight.

This bi troper leans straight. He is rather effeminate in his mannerisms, and speaks towards the high end of tenor. Generally, people guess the other way, and of course not just leaning. Recently, a regular customer at work asked a coworker where "the gay guy" was.

This troper has had girls attempt to set him up with their male friends, and attracts gay males. This only gets worse in foreign countries with people trying to get him to say something to hear the British accent.

This troper has been referred to as a lesbian. This troper is both straight and ''male.''

I (a male) have been hit on, persistently, by at least 4 lesbians, most only after they came out, and all independently of the others. It's gotten to the point where two of them hooked up and try to get me into threesomes. It wasn't so weird until I went to college, where nobody knew me, and within 3 weeks I had another lesbian stalker... Believe me, not as good as it sounds.

So you are monopolizing most of the luck of the world? You are pretty much CursedWithAwesome...

I can't believe it, a real life UnwantedHarem...

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU? When an average woman hits on you, you consider your options. When an attractive woman hits on you, you set a time and place to meet again, hoping to get laid. WHEN TWO ATTRACTIVE LESBIANS ASK IF YOU'D LIKE TO JOIN A THREESOME, YOU GET YOUR FUCKING COAT!

To hell with the coat! You can get another!

He didn't say the lesbians were attractive. But if they're at least average-looking I'd have to agree.

You're the living proof tha being {{Bishounen}} does not work well in real life. Well, not as it is supposed to work, anyway. Ergo, I agree with the coat idea above.

Well, wait if they're really lesbians than why would they be interested in a guy? Wouldn't that make them bi?

After he specifically said "not as good as it sounds," too. Way to go.

But it sounds so good that even if it wasn't as good as it sounds, it would ''still'' have to be really awesome.

This troper's sister and her boyfriend were once waiting for a ride outside a movie theater, when some guys came out of the bar next door and mistook them for lesbians.

Apparently in my high school gym class, staying quiet and out of everyone's way indicated homosexuality. At least the ''physical'' taunts (making humping motions and grunting at me whenever I bent over to tie my shoes, etc.) stopped after I threw one guy doing it into the lockers.

This troper salutes you for doing so. Such taunts ''do'' get increasingly annoying. I would know, I once sent someone to the hospital because of them... Acidentally, mind you.

This troper finds it hilarious that ''they'' would pretend to hump you and grunt and yet ''you'' were the one they called gay. That's not how it works!

This bisexual male troper has had this happen to him three times for completely different reasons, only one of which was "liking other boys" (his brother caught him watching gay porn). The other two were a girl couldn't understand why he was annoyed with her obsession with his smile and a girl who assumed he was gay because his starting moment of {{EmoTeen}}dom directly followed the first time he kissed a girl.

This ''other'' bisexual male troper once mentioned, in passing, how attractive another man was. A girl he was with made a sarcastic comment implying I was gay, as if it was a huge insult. So I ran with the AmbiguouslyGay comments, acting all the while like I wasn't getting the lame jokes, and she kept it up with a series of increasingly "cutting" remarks until her friend finally stopped her. What makes the story funny is that the friend didn't stop her because she was making herself look like an idiot, but because she was being "mean," even though I was blatantly setting up her lines.

This same troper just thought of another good intentional, "let people assume what they will" instance. I'm currently in business with an old friend, so he is quite literally my "partner," though he's straight as an arrow. I love to embarrass him this way. "Hi, I'm X, and this is my partner." Did I mention I do this in non-business contexts, to people who have no idea what we do for a living? He takes it in stride, though.

Allow this troper to speak for a large part of the bisexuals out there. It's really amusing to play Main/AmbiguouslyGay.

Happened to this troper. By his parents.

This troper's friends joke about her being lesbian due to the fact she really doesn't care to date anyone at the moment (and hasn't dated anyone). She doesn't appreciate it.

Same thing happens to this troper. {{It got worse}} when her sister joined in on the assumptions.

This troper repeatedly gets such mistakes from his sister. Admittedly I'm as gay as it's possible to be without actually being attracted to men, and usually go for tomboys.

Every time this troper and her mother go to Washington DC, they are presumed to be a couple. Strange, considering that last time, the troper brought her boyfriend as well.

This troper's best (male) friend in High School was a natural Gaydar Jammer, it really didn't help he looked like Mark from {{RENT}}.

This troper gets this normally, telling the person that "They're close," since this troper's bi.

This troper hates physical activity, loves theater, has two girls for best friends, writes romance fiction, and is rather sensitive in nature. Being mistaken for gay is pretty much a common occurrence by now. Heck, reading what he just wrote, ''this troper'' isn't sure if he may actually be gay. NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat...

KrazehPenguin is called gay often because of how feminine he looks, and trys to act like, but he really only does that because he dislikes being a guy and guys in general.

Transgender?

This male troper is sometimes mistaken for gay, probably because one of his best friends is openly gay as a...very gay thing. People have mistaken us for a couple. The funky thing is, I'm straight leaning bisexual and my girlfriend identifies herself as a lesbian.

Sophomore year of High school. This troper had gotten a new circle of friends, and he found out about halfway into the summer of that year that they had all assumed he was gay, and that one of the gay friends of his had even had a crush on him!

This Troper, being not terribly sociable, has only one really close friend. Since we do practically everything together, I have at least once been asked if we're gay (we're not). I've taken to introducing ourselves to people like this: #QUOTE#"Hi, I'm This Troper, this is This Troper's Friend. We're not gay."

This Troper feels your pain. MAN do I feel your pain.

Thirded. It's been happening a lot lately.

This troper is asexual, and his best friend is supposedly a "closet" homosexual, but it's fairly obvious. I get called names far more often then I'd like, and the lack of girlfriends makes it harder to disprove. I consider asking someone out just to end it.

This troper has gotten to really hate the underclassmen at his school since one of them assumed he was gay after he answered to the negative to "Do you have a girlfriend?"

This female troper was once mistaken for ''transsexual''.

This troper's brother was initially mistaken for gay by his future girlfriend. Weird part was that when she first met him, she still saw herself going out with him some day.

This troper, all the time. Doesn't help that she doesn't date much and can be rather outspoken about gay rights sometimes. But she mentions cute guys a lot, you'd think people would figure it out!

This troper, all the time. Doesn't help that he doesn't date at all and can be rather outspoken about gay rights sometimes. And he mentions cute guys a lot, and checks them out with his gay best friend. And plays it up as much as he can, for kicks. And then is amused when people assume that he is straight, even though he is, when replying in the negative to "are you gay?".

This troper (gayer than the subtext in an episode of angel) and his ridiculously strait friend are constantly being assumed to hold each other's sexual preferences. Said friend is slim blonde and helps at charity events while the troper is roughly twice his mass dark and makes jokes that fall pretty seriously into the CompleteMonster catagory.

ThisTroper somewhat subverted this trope in a situation where she saw two of her female classmates hugging and said "How Romantic" in a sarcastic tone of voice, as a joke. Needless to say, a big argument ensued when said classmates thought I'd meant it for real, and I had to expain I was joking.

This troper is [=FtM=]. After telling his parents this his mother responded with "We though you were going to tell us you were gay." Close mom. Close.

This troper's friend once dated an extremely effeminate guy while at university, whom we all thought was gay. Another friend, who came from a town quite near to his, informed us, "he's not gay, he's just from Essex. They're all like that."

This troper went to basic training with a gentleman like this. He was then caught in the female laundry room with two other women in a state of undress.

This troper was recently mistaken for gay while clicking around ''this very wiki'' due to that excercise ad with the picture of the shirtless muscular guy. Well, okay, I am bi-curious. But I don't go around advertising that fact. And bi =/= gay anyway, strictly speaking.

This troper's father refers to his long-term live-in girlfriend as his "partner", reasonably enough. Confusion has ensued more than once, particularly when he goes on to add that said partner is a rugby player...

This troper is actually perpetually Mistaken for Straight. This is further exacerbated by the fact that her closest friend is essentially the male version of her. It's difficult to think of ''anyone'' who has met them both and not assumed they're together.

This troper was asexual for the first few years of middle school (10-14) and eventually, when I did become straight, everyone assumed I was gay. I couldn't deny it easily, either, as I speak in a monotone. everyone thought I was faking it.

This asexual troper has been given the "if you are gay, it's okay, you can tell us" talk by her parents no less than ''four times''. (She's generally Mistaken For a Prepubescent Boy by strangers, though.)

This straight(?) troper has been assumed to be a lesbian since she was in fifth grade. The fact that she has never had a boyfriend doesn't help, and neither does the fact that calling herself straight feels a little like lying - she seems to be somewhere between straight and asexual, leaning more towards the latter.

This troper is 1) fairly masculine-looking and has a masculine personality, 2) asexual, so confuses guys by utter lack of interest and completely missing standard cues, and 3) frequently surrounded by pretty female friends who hug her and tell her they love her all the time. (We have a sort of joke love triangle going.) Yeah, I get this a lot. It probably doesn't help that I keep forgetting that new acquaintances don't know I'm asexual, so when people are joking around about guys and I say something like "yeah, I'm just the sort to go lusting after men, can't you tell?" sarcastically, it can give the wrong impression.

It can be funny (or extremely uncomfortable, YourMileageMayVary) to be a straight guy living in New York and getting hitting on by gays.

This (straight) troper has been mistaken for gay on several occasions and finds it hilarious.

This troper got asked by at least one girl a year during his high school career if he was gay...because being the shy, quiet one, who didnt ask many (...ok, any) girls out, and who enjoys reading a bit of paranormal romance once in awhile equals gay({{Not That Theres Anything Wrong With That}}...it became somewhat annoying after about the third time.

This troper's 16-year-old brother and his best friend have been HeterosexualLifePartners since the first grade. One or two months ago, some kids at school started making fun of them because they were sure that the two were a gay couple. My brother and his friend, who have Asperger's Syndrome and ADHD, respectively, were rather shocked and offended. I told my brother to say, "Yeah, we're starring in ''Brokeback Mountain 2: The Next Generation''."

Somehow, every single girl this troper is interested in has to ask if he's gay. Mostly, it's because he's willing to ''talk to other guys''.

This troper curiously gets mistaken for gay about as often as he gets mistaken for catholic, despite being (a fairly liberal) protestant.

This (gay) troper met a guy with a limp wrist, a bit of a lisp, and a preference for wine and fruity drinks. Troper met Guy for coffee and went out to a party with him, but nothing happened. Months later, Guy thought it was important to email Troper and explain that he wasn't gay. Troper hadn't even thought about Guy for ages, and needless to say, he wasn't amused.

This troper is not a lesbian. She just really hates makeup. M'kay?

This male troper is crying tears of joy for you. THANK YOU FOR NOT CONFORMING. I prefer women who have a '''natural''' beauty, thank you very much!

Those tears are a bit premature, seeing as she said in the same sentence that she's also a lesbian. Keep searching.

She said she's not a lesbian, so those tears are right on time.

Due to this troper being a {{Bifauxnen}}, it's only natural that on occasion she has been mistaken for not only a lesbian but also for a gay guy.

This (straight female) Troper was once constantly being mistaken for a lesbian. Why? Because "you've got short hair." *HEADDESK* Eventually grew it long out of sheer irritation.

Happened to this Troper today. While in Latin class he took advantage of a momentary lull to exchange some words with third tier friends (one class only friends). The subject of Casino Royale came up and one of the friends said "Yah, Vesper Lynn was hot" to which the Troper replied "Dude, I know". Both friends turned in surprise and exclaimed "YOU'RE STRAIGHT!?". Queue Head on Desk.

This troper was raised by a single mother and hadn't much contact to other kids. And wasn't much into P.E. Apparently he picked up some typical female mannerisms, so he was asked in primary school by some bigger girls whether he was gay. This was before he learned WTH gay means.

This troper is an asexual who works with various social rights groups including a GSA. She didn't really care if she was mistaken for gay, until her parents started bugging her about it for weeks. Having a gay older sister didn't help anything. Also, in an inversion (mistaken for straight), this troper once agreed to double date with a gay couple, and took her bisexual best friend. Two men, two women. It must be a straight double date! Not a gay one!

This troper was occasionally mistaken for gay in high school, due to being a bit socially awkward and perpetually sans girlfriend at the time. Admittedly, it probably didn't help that he ''does'' have just a few bi-curious tendencies.

This troper was called gay a couple of times (if never ''directly'', but it was definitely implied) in high school; partly because he was involved with theater, partly because he spent a lot of time with a guy who was openly bi (who had been, y'know, my best friend for years). It didn't help that practically every other guy involved in the theater program leaned towards the high end of the Kinsey scale. Man, high school sucked. For the record, I really dislike the stereotype that male actors are gay.

This troper has been mistaken for gay by many people including his own father until he brought home his third girlfriend. However, most females can tell he is straight; its normally gay men and paranoid fathers who doubt his heterosexuality. Of course, the theater, the cooking, the watching romance films, the reading shojo manga, the cosplaying and the hand gestures probably don't help...

This Troper is often times mistaken for a girl all because I like to wear my Hair long. He was once ven kicked out of a Men's bathroom at Movie Theater.

This troper had it happen once at school, largely due to being asexual without being aware of the concept. Not that I'd have done a good job of explaining it anyway. I also regularly get Mistaken For Bisexual by the ads on {{Facebook}}, presumably because I didn't enter either gender under "interested in".

This troper thinks it's safe to say that him and his cousin are HeterosexualLifePartners. This troper just ''knows'' that at least one person is thinking that we're a gay couple every time we go out to ''dinner and a movie''. It doesn't help that we really like to run with it for the lulz. And that the word "men" (and variations) is a meme between the two of us. And, well, a whole host of reasons, really. This troper has also been told that he's too good at doing a stereotypical gay voice to not be gay.

This Troper has been mistaken as or suspected to be gay three times so far: it may have something to do with his occasional effeminite mannerisms, his love of Drama, the fact that for a long time he showed no interest in girls and also because he often dances (fairly badly) in the middle of his school corridors to the tune in his head. The last action has led to him explaining that he's not gay, he's just weird.

This troper has a friend who acts like a stereotypical gay guy, so much that insisting that he's gay has become a running joke among his friends. (If you wanted to know, he has a high voice, loves musicals, and says "like" as much or even more than any girl I know.) Of course, he isn't gay at all.

Actually happened to me. In my last year of high school One of my co-workers happened to mention that they thought I was gay. This threw me for a loop so I went to school and asked some of my friends if they had ever thought I was gay. ALL of my female friends had thought I was gay for nearly five years, despite my having two serious girlfriends through this period. None of my male friends had ever thought I was gay, although everyone was able to agree that they thought I had a 'quality.'!

Two of my 8th-grade friends have convinced at least their janitor that they are dating with each other, and one was bored enough to buy the other flowers at a valentine's day dance.

A friend is MistakenForGay all this time. This troper was once coming home from a party with him and a girl; when the friend got off the metro, this troper turned to the girl and said: #QUOTE# He's cute, isn't he? #QUOTE# He sure is! You two make such a cute couple. #QUOTE# What? He's straight! #QUOTE# He's ''straight??'' even for a minute had the possibility that he might be heterosexual even crossed her mind. The boy isn't even that flamey. (His opposite number would be the ostensibly heterosexual ''soldier'' that this troper's best (female) friend used to date, who constantly looked for excuses to [[EvenTheGuysWantHim tickle him, or "jokingly" make out with him, or stick his hands down his while dancing at a drag club.)]]

This troper's mother was insisting for some time that their neighbor's teenaged grandson was gay, because he doesn't demonstrate much interest in girls his own age. Troper kept arguing back that he wasn't; she and the boy are fairly close and she reasoned she would have had some clue if he were. Turns out that the kid isn't gay, he just likes ''older'' women...and has, or at least had last summer, a crush on the troper.

This Christian troper recently decided that he was going to be celibate until he got married. When said troper explains this to women when turning down offers for sex, you should see the looks on their faces. The incredulous reactions fall between "You could just say you're not attracted to me" to "Oh, you're gay aren't you?". Ah, people....

Aw, I wish you were gay, the "saving it for someone special" thing is really cute. XP

Dude. I totally understand. I don't date a lot because I don't really see the point until I'm in a position where I'm looking for a husband. The fact that I talk about my religious views without bashing homosexual people (you know, that whole love everyone and be humble when you speak thing a lot of people forget) and still have gay friends (Friend's who I've had since elementary and middle school) might make me come off as 'in the closet'. Ironically, none of my strait friends have ever asked me if I was gay. One of my gay friends did ask me "How do you know you're strait even though all your friends from middle school came out of the closet." I kinda just said, "Well...I've liked dudes, and never really liked girls." Of course...the fact that I'm vocal about believing that love is not a gender oriented thing can sometimes be confusing...

This lesbian troper is the same way. And no, she still hasnt figured out how it'll work...

Happened twice to this troper. The first time, someone took my vocal support of gay rights as evidence of being gay. She became my girlfriend a few months later. The second time, my gender-neutral references to said girlfriend ("I was just talking to my ''friend''", "This is the same ''person'' we talked about before"), while attempting to mask the relationship, only made my mother suspect that I had a boyfriend instead.

Complete inversion: this troper still has to occasionaly remind people that he's gay. I guess people get thrown off by my complete lack of fashion sense, average grooming habits, utterly non-campy speaking/acting style, love of violent games/movies, taste in music (Madonna can go f*** herself, give me old school blues and rock), etc. I even had a therapist (deeply religious family) who insisted that I could not possibly be gay because of all that.

This troper likes to make dick jokes, and can actually look at a penis without feeling utter disgust (Meatspin desensitizes you rather quickly), and can, in fact, say the incredibly vulgar word "penis" (and its harsher synonyms). Therefore, according to a friend, this troper ''must'' be gay, because he doesn't stop talking about "male genitalia" (the only way this friend will ever refer to man-parts).

in an odd variant of this, when online this troper tends to get mistaken for being a gay guy, when she's actually a straight chick.

This troper just found out that her classmates, including some of her friends, have thought that she was a lesbian for the past ''four years''. She's straight, but doesn't feel the need to conform in style and interest to the slutty clone army that encompasses most girls her age.

This troper is constantly accused of being in a threesome with her two best (female) friends. It's getting irritating. Of course, it's not like we're doing much to disprove the rumor (after the New Year's party incident, we've decided to just let things go as they will). Ironically, this troper actually is lesbian, and one of the other two is bi. This, in turn, leads to people (usually the ones who have figured out the threesome is just a rumor) assuming that we two are dating. We're not. Once again - IRRITATING.

This troper gets repeatedly pegged as bisexual, due to an interest in both anime and what'd be generally termed "GLBT issues". Apparently, all YaoiFangirl otaku are bi as the first day of spring. And my distaste at a classmate's soapbox ranting about bi people going to Extra Hell means that I liek the ladies as well as the gentlemen. And my ability to appreciate beauty aesthetically wherever it may lie. As does my lack of dating. And my physical revulsion at the thought of actual sexual contact with either gender. Makes perfect sense. Sure. (Also, for a while I had my hair cut in a really nice A-line which seemed to practically ''compel'' women to come along and run their fingers through the short, spiky hair at the nape of my neck. Good God, I wish they'd cut it out. My ''haircut'' makes me a target for instant LesYay. So now I'm growing my hair. Which only makes it worse.) I'm also frequently reined into doing "domestic" things with my older sister, who is... quite buxom, and blonde, and all in all looks nothing like me. (I'm a PaleSkinnedBrunette.) We go out to dinner a lot alone, buy paint together, shop for clothes, and go to movies. It'd be way more awkward if she weren't actually bi, and if I wasn't as attached to her as I am.

Since when is the first day of Spring bisexual?

This Troper, back in high school, due to being a short-haired tomboy. Apparently having male friends and not sleeping with all of them equals Instant Lesbian. Even now, 10 years later, I'm expecting the "You can tell us anything" conversation pretty soon (I'm actually borderline asexual).

This troper's father drives a small purple Nissan Micra, wears immaculate polo neck jumpers and takes a strong interest in interior design. When my sister and I hang out with him, our uncle (his brother) often tags along for the ride. He loves cats and has braided hair. And he's straight, too. This situation has led to one or two awkward moments

Hands up all bisexuals who have been both Mistaken for Gay and Mistaken for Straight ''repeatedly''.

This is beginning to happen constantly with this troper, simply because she and her best friend both have super short hair and hang out together as much as they can. Yes, we have no problem invading each other's personal space, but it's not like we're kissing or groping each other! It doesn't help that both wear androgynous clothing, so sometimes they're mistaken for gay ''boys''.

This troper gets it a lot. His friends once dragged him along to a gay club for a laugh and the following conversation happened three times in ten minutes. #QUOTE# Can I buy you a drink? #QUOTE# Oh no, I'm not gay. #QUOTE# ''Sure'' you aren't. *grope*

This troper is Mistaken For Lesbian, by ''her own father.'' Too bad she's straight and kind of asexual. Wow. So dense.

This troper is straight leaning towards asexual but was mistaken for bisexual at her work. Having a love for MindScrew she decided to run with it.

One of this troper's friends is bisexual; he's constantly being mistaken for gay. This is probably because he fulfills nigh on all the stereotypes CampGay characters in media. The fact that he likes anime, considered for some reason a "girly" thing by many of the guys in this troper's hometown, probably doesn't help. The troper herself is also, in a slightly rarer example, mistaken for asexual due to her analytical approach to physical appearance and relationships, along with a tendency to not find popular actors and singers, such as Orlando Bloom and Pete Wentz, to be especially attractive. She also expects to be mistaken for a lesbian eventually, thanks to the latter factor and the fact that she has an extremely androgynous personality, and loathes makeup and high heels.

Inversion: This troper is mistaken for straight. A LOT. He actually has better luck getting straight women to chase after him than gay or bisexual men. However, when he meets up with {{Fag Hag}}s and {{Yaoi Fangirl}}s at conventions who are chasing him to "turn" him, within a matter of minutes, they're convinced that he's a straight guy lying about liking yaoi/men to get into their pants. (Damn YuriFanboy-ness.) However, all of this is when he passes as male...when read as his birth sex, he's easily mistaken for a middle-aged ButchLesbian...or a {{Transsexual}} who is transitioning from ''male-to-female''. ZigZaggingTrope does not even ''begin'' to cover this.

This troper. Too damn much. Once when I was getting lunch with a friend. Once by my mother. Once when a friend described me to another person as a "bear," meaning tall, heavy, and hairy (rather than tall, heavy, hairy, and gay). The chronic lack of a girlfriend doesn't help much either.

A friend of mine said he would call me that night. We both got very dirty looks.

A friend of mine was thought to be gay with his house mate. My sister and I are somtimes mistaken fo lesbians. It doesn't help that we are polar opposites and don't even look that much alike.

When this straight male troper was in high school, he signed up for home ec because he wanted to learn to cook and was the only male in the class. Within 30 minutes of the first class ending, several girls complained to the Principal that I was just there to get in their pants. When I made it clear that I had no such intent, they complained to the principal that they shouldn't have to be in the same class with a "fag." Then then listed off all the "faggy" things I did. Amongst the highlights:

Wore glasses.

Liked to hang out in the library.

Didn't play sports.

Played flute in the school band.

Was in Drama Club.

Got straight A's

The end of the conversation went like this: #QUOTE#Me: Is the fact that I'm sexually attracted to women going to come into this argument at ANY point? #QUOTE#Girls: But you said you didn't want to-- #QUOTE#Me: I'm attracted to girls, I'm just not attracted to YOU.

The administration still forced me to drop the class.

What FILTHY DAMNABLE BITCHES! Hell, that sounds like a situation I may encounter in the future...

I don't know who I should send this MacrossMissileMassacre to; those wretched girls or to the PointyHairedBoss principal who actually forced you to drop the class.

In my opinion, they're all fucking idiots, putting you into a no-win situation! Seriously! If you're straight, you're out; if you're gay, you're out. God, how infuriating!

I think this example should also be posted on TheUnfairSex Troper Tales page.

Maybe if I stopped smiling at passers-by so much, I wouldn't get hit on by guys so often. Then again, I assume that ''anyone'' smiling back is just being friendly, so I have a hard time telling if anyone's flirting. The end result? It isn't that my gay-dar's broken. I just have ''passive'' gay-dar.

Dude, yes. This straight troper is almost forced to frown at guys just to not accidentally let one of them think he's gay.

Ugh, this happened to me. I'm a straight guy, but I didn't really become attracted to girls until I was 12. Until then I really didn't care for love or all that stuff. My friends and peers were convinced by the time I was 11 that I was gay. Cause you know, it's only one or the other as far as elementary kids are concerned.

Upon her joining Facebook, my mother saw that my friend regularly greets me with "Hey faggot" and similar terms. This caused her to ask my brother whether or not I am gay. I am a heterosexual yuri fanboy that doesn't even like being around most guys. Not that I make that very obvious, what with my obsession with lolita fashion, my effeminate mannerisms, my lack of a girlfriend, my dislike of muscle, my being naturally thin, my despising body hair aside from the long hair atop my head, my posters of visual kei bands covering my room's walls, and my inordinately high number of female friends. I just happen to like girls better in more ways than just sexual ones. I guess this means I am straighter than most straight guys, SO THERE.

Girls in my class often ask why I don't have a boyfriend (I'm a girl, too). My simplest, honest answer is boys don't interest me. This, to my frustration, automatically leads people to think I'm lesbian. In all honesty, I'm not quite sure what I am yet.

Asexual?

Possibly, but I still declare openly when I think people (gender doesn't matter) are hot.

You know, I was going to PotHole the "boys don't interest me" above, but I couldn't decide whether I should link it to DoesNotLikeMen or ''HaruhiSuzumiya.'' ...... S'at ''you'', Haruhi?

Heh, nah. I lean more towards DoesNotLikeMen.

This troper is straight as straight can be, but his father doesn't seem to think so, blatantly shoving him in the "right way", giving him playboy magazines and even pointing at any hot girl passing by for him. The problem is that my father thinks I'm gay simply because I don't swoon over any girl (mostly not even that "hot") because I prefer facial beauty and symmetric beauty to simply big butts and breasts, to what my old man simply cannot comprehend.

This female troper cut her hair short before transferring to a new school. Little did I know that the all-girl school that I was transferring to assumed that ALL short-haired girls are lesbian. *facepalm*

This troper and his good friend (who have been jokingly mistaken for gay by other friends) once went to an awesome local Italian restaurant for lunch, and said place was deserted except for me and him. This restaurant was already known by me as having very friendly staff and an owner that had a tendency to remember patrons. When my friend and I were ordering our food, he casually asked us whether we had any girlfriends. We both said no. Cue restaurant owner smiling and practically winking at us. I don't think I have eaten in at that restaurant since then for fear of him recognising me.

This troper, who really hopes she will not be identified, overheard a conversation between her friend and her friend's friend (all of us girls). The two embraced, and then my friend talked about her mother kept telling her "we love you, we love you", while her father kept saying "you'll never get a job, people will avoid you". Both girls push for gay rights, so I automatically assumed that she'd come out of the closet. At lunch, I joined a conversation where my friend announced that...she was thinking of going to college a year early. Which sorta makes sense with what I overheard...but I'm still confuzzled.

I am gay, but I have a slightly odd example that combines with RelativeError. Because of a distinct lack of familial resemblence, my very straight older brother tends to be mistaken for my boyfriend. We both think it's hilarious of course. Our parents, not so much.

I'm twenty-one. Not only have I never had a girlfriend, I've never had a FirstKiss. You do the math.

This troper echos that.

This troper is starting to feel nervous after reading this page. She is in the exact same situation as the troper above, and isn't very feminine (no makeup, baggy clothes especially during the winter, no interest in much of the stereotypical girly stuff, has). She also doesn't have any qualms about hanging out with guys as well as girls. But no-one has actually called her lesbian. The nervousness comes from the fact that she doesn't know if people think of her that way and just haven't mentioned it, because she would very much like to get her first boyfriend while still in her twenties.

This Troper, due to being a AvPD Nerd. Unfortunately, ItGotWorse when he went on a cruise and rejected the opportunity to have a two-girl threesome. What, so not being a sex-crazed male stereotype means you're gay now?

This troper is likely frequently MistakenForGay, though no one has ever mentioned it to him. He's never had a real girlfriend or a real first kiss, and mostly hangs out with girls. He's not gay though, just shy and standoffish.

This troper gets a little ''cuddly'' around her female friends when bored, leading others to think that she is, in fact, lesbian. She's straight, just goes to a boring all-girls school. Although she IS asking for it...

This troper is always MistakenForGay really, almost everyone thinks that he is gay and he is straight as an arrow , has always been stalked by gays who think that he is also gay and almost everyone in his family thinks that too, but i have a girlfriend and have been with 12 girls already ,maybe is the mannerism or the girly face or even the voice i don't know,then i moved to another city and in less than 6 months i already have been stalked for no less than 5 guys, it's quite bothersome...

This troper was mistaken for straight at least six times in two weeks. As she was playing D&D with a bunch of friends, the guy who played the rogue referred to the guy playing the black mage (house rules character) as her boyfriend. This led to her confusion, and she pointed out that her character, a bard, did not have a boyfriend. About five minutes later, it dawned on her that he might have thought that the rogue was referring to the players and not the characters. And then a week later, one of the more tactless people in her anime club outright asked if that person was her boyfriend, and she took a few hours to set the record straight for everyone. The guy in question heard her exasperated story, gave her a cock-eyed look, and promptly asked her, "''Do'' you have a boyfriend?"

And in a more straight example, when she was at the National Equality March, she met up with a friend she hadn't seen in a while, and all her friend's friends assumed she was lesbian. She realized that she was walking with a lesbian ''group'' about twenty minutes in. No wonder they assumed that she was lesbian....

And this troper, for the record, is {{asexual}}.

This Troper is mistaken for gay so often, he's been thinking about just sticking with it. Of course, long-ish hair, glasses, lack of facial hair and disinterest in sports might throw some people off, along with, you know, being thirty-six and never having been on a date.

This troper has Asperger's Syndrome, and has been accused of being a lesbian ever since she was ''10''. What part of, "I'm just not interested in dating", do they not understand?

Back when I was about 13 or 14, I and another friend were Mistaken For Gay by everyone else in our class because we were pretty much joined at the hip, always sitting next to each other or hanging around with each other and so on (in truth we weren't even ''very'' best friends, but we were the only two from our friendship group in that class that year and disliked pretty much everyone else in the class). This is a sort of retroactive subversion, though -- at the time I was attracted to girls exclusively and I considered myself straight, but the very next year I started to develop an attraction to other guys and now generally prefer guys to girls (my friend, on the other hand, is genuinely straight).

This happens to this troper everythime she wears her "Gay Straight Alliance" shirt, as everyone seems to forget that there is a straight in that name. Ironically enough, she has no sexual orientation and the conversation usually goes as follows: #QUOTE# ''Person'': Oh, so you're gay? #QUOTE# ''Troper'': No. #QUOTE# ''Person'': Straight? #QUOTE# ''Troper'': No. #QUOTE# ''Person'': Bi? #QUOTE# ''Troper'': No. #QUOTE# ''Person'': Then what are you? #QUOTE# ''Troper'': Hell if I know.

There was one guy at my (former) high school whom I got to know as we were both in the school play; he was incredibly nice and charming, with a definite EvenTheGuysWantHim aura about him... anyway, I and pretty much everyone else assumed he was gay (from his mannerisms, tone of voice, the way he dressed, all the stereotypical things). One time I made some offhand remark that referred to him as gay, at which point he stared and said, "Hang on -- gay? I'm not gay." Cue three or four people in the immediate vicinity going, "You're ''not?'' What the hell?" For confirmation, we asked his friend (who was incidentally playing the male lead) if the guy was gay or not. The friend's response: "Him? Hell no. He's pretty much the straightest person ever."

Played painfully straight for this troper at school. Asperger's Syndrome, yeah sure, but this troper is fairly straight. Considering the lack of females like himself actually interested in sex, he actually at times wishes he was capable of turning. However he has had some luck, in terms of losing his V-card - not with a female Asperger Syndrome type though but still, a relatively good experience only soured by the fact she was nasty in the sense you wouldn't want as well...

ThisTroper (Asexual) has a LateToThePunchline moment about this, realizing only in college that alot of my highschool classmates thought that I was a lesbian, and that it has definitely occurred that it was a possibility to my parents, considering that I was not allowed to close the door when someone else was in my room male or female. That I went to prom with my best (straight female) friend probably didn't help. Even now I get it when I walk down the street with a friend, who to be fair is gay.

This troper so many times... Oh, so many times.

This Troper went to his high school prom with a large group of friends rather than with a date. He needed a ride though, so he got one from his good male friend. Because somebody gave us bad directions, we arrived to the dinner at a restaurant late. The entire restaurant was filled with people going to the prom in their dresses and tuxedos. We go to the back of the restaurant, to find our group completely filling up a table, leaving no room for us. So we pulled a small table to the side close to our group. It was a sushi restaurant, and the waitress, who spoke very little English, came up to the two of us, and asked if we were a couple. Cue the two of us saying "NO! NO!" And my buddy nearly jumping backwards over his chair to another table. We ended up sitting at seperate tables off of the main table so this mistake wouldn't happen again... NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat.

This Troper is semi-frequently Mistaken For Lesbian. Admittedly, she does have a tendancy to be rather huggy with her female friends, but this seems to be more to do with simply ''being'' friends with a girl who is openly bisexual.

This female troper has been asked several times if she was lesbian just because at the age of 16 she didn't have a boyfriend yet.

This troper's conservative parents seem to think that just because I support gay rights, I must be gay myself.

This(extremely gay) troper, despite having waist-length, meticulously cared for hair, and penchant for talking loudly about male genitals, is considered the straight guy for some unknown reason.

Throughout middle and High school this troper was consistently having to explain to people that I'm not gay. I guess that being articulate, erudite and vehemently hating most sports and being straight is too much for some people's brains to wrap around at that age. I've even been hit on by more than one gay guy. it gets irritating when they don't believe it when I tell them I'm not gay and I'm not interested.

This (female) troper's best (female) friend whom I spend all my time and have late-night phone conversations with is gay. Coupled with the fact that I've never had a boyfriend nor do I show any interest in men in general, a lot of people, including my own mother, think that I'm gay. In all seriousness, I'm not. I'm just not interested, is all.

This troper was utterly shocked to find out in his senior year of high school that many, many schoolmates and some teachers had him pegged for gay due to the number of girls he hung out with on a regular basis (ironically, his best friend is straight male; he was just never near my school, unlike female friends from outside school). What proved them wrong was when he had a regular girlfriend. Of course, it didn't work, because, apparently, the same people had pegged her as lesbian and, then, both of us as closeted and faking straightness for our parents. This was, in fact, totally absurd, but we didn't even try to correct them; it wasn't worth the effort.

I'm a girl, I don't really date, I prefer wearing baggy jeans and overly large shirts, I never wear make-up, and I wear suits to any formal event. I also have lesbian parents. I found it hilarious when my mom told me that my grandparents think I am gay. So do my friends' parents. And I recently had to explain to my aunt that I wasn't, because it have become common knowledge in my family that I am. I am torn between {{facepalm}} and laughter for this.

I was mistaken for gay many times in high school. I was in drama, hung around with a group comprised of several girls and 2 gay guys, and didn't have a girlfriend. Apparently many people didn't see a reason why I wouldn't have a girlfriend (which did wonders for my self-esteem knowing that I wasn't unattractive). Eventually, after explaining that I wasn't gay a dozen times people stopped asking.

This troper has been Mistaken For Straight.

An asexual troper here who got a funky response from the girls I hang out with when I asked to see their Yaoi art.

I'm also asexual. I play it for laughs though.

This troper is constantly mistaken for a lesbian, usually with a random friend of hers being mistaken for her girlfriend. She doesn't mind.

This Troper has actually had a few variations on this, he looks slightly effeminate, even more so when his hair drops over his face, and his close friend looks very effeminate. They are commonly mistaken for both being a straight couple, the one who people think is female is about a 50/50 split, and being a gay couple (Though that's not to say that they don't '''constantly''' play up to this.) This troper and his girlfriend are sometimes mistaken for a lesbian couple, much to his girlfriends amusment. He has also been approached by many gay friends who have constantly told that him that he is a 'Gay Magnet'. He is completely straight.

This troper doesn't like to wear makeup, perfers comfy baggy clothes, and has always been a tomboy. Add to that she shows little interest in guys besides just being friends and has never been on a date or even been kissed at the age of 19. Yeah, she gets this alot.

Oh, you've noticed that I never express any interest in girls, fair enough. Did you also notice how I never express any interest in boys? There is a difference between homosexuality and just not meeting anyone yet. (Though I am beginning to suspect that I'm asexual)

Male, bisexual. All the girls I meet assume I'm gay, but all the cute guys think I'm straight. As a result, I have a lot of awesome, and frankly quite attractive, friends, but no luck romantically.

Tropers/DesertDragon: I have the single worst {{Gaydar}} in the world. I have, on multiple occasions, hit on the one straight guy at a gay bar who's just there with his girlfriend and her friends. Recently, I thought a co-worker was gay and checking me out. He was cute, so I gave flirty glances of my own but wasn't quite sure how to strike up conversation. Then later, I saw him walking down the hall holding hands with this girl, whom I had previously thought was his FagHag. So yeah, he probably thinks I'm some creepy StalkerWithACrush by now.

In my sophomore year of High-School, my english teacher thought it was a good idea to seperate us into small groups based on gender, which I dreaded instantly, as I tend to get a long better with males than females, due to being a gamer chick whom loves heavy metal, martial arts, horror movies and motorcycles, and the majority of the girls in that particular class were pink-wearing, skimpily dressed, Desperate Housewives-material. So as soon as we got situated, all the girls in my group started talking about their boyfriends, their drunken clubbing escapades, and finally they all started debating who the cutest boy in class was. I was single at the time, so of course they naturally started heckling me about who I thought was hot/wanted to date. The situation quickly became awkward, because again I considered the majority of the guys to be just friends, and the ones I didn't hang out with were the ones I thought were freaking idiots, as they were convinced I made up the words 'Morbid' and 'Gag', and were also shocked to find 'Whole' is spelt with a W. Long story short, the girls figured out I didn't want to get into the pants of any of the guys at school, so maybe there was an actor I thought was sexy? Blushing, I admitted that I thought Cillian Murphy was pretty fine....And they immediately assumed that he's a woman, and started yelling that 'Angel is a lebian'. Cue the headdesk. Though in hindsight, I think it was kinda funny, not to mention ironic, because I am rather Bisexual now...Yummm, Michelle Rodriguez.

Happened once and later somehow averted by this (asexual) troper. She's the only girl among a large group of boys but with no intentions of dating any of them nor any other boy. She does hang around with one girl and two of her friends, however, but she once mistook one of those two friends for a guy and still catches herself caught off guard lying her head flirtatiously on the girl's shoulder in the lunch line. This troper could probably add much more to this list, but this has rarely ever happened. Once a male friend said, "Have you ever liked a girl but just couldn't bring yourself to tell her?" but this was just a small slip that I didn't even notice until another male friend pointed out that the answer would be "No" because I'm a girl. And before then, during recess back in third grade, my friend Alexandra and I were approached by some snooty popular chick who asked, "Do you two like each other?" I, being just the tender age of 8, naively answered "Yes" but was later told by my friend that she meant "like" and in "love". I'm just surprised that this happened when I was young and still homophobic rather than when it was averted while I was still questioning my own sexuality.

This troper and a few of her friends decided to go clubbing in Ann Arbor one night. I was going through an insane ''MorkAndMindy'' phase at the time (note: I am NOT {{Lurkerbunny}}) and I decided to wear a T-shirt I refashioned myself, with a Mork graphic on it. It laced up the sides with rainbow ribbons, and I wore other rainbow accessories to complement it. Turns out we spaced on the date -- it wasn't College Night that night. It was Pride Friday. I spent the better part of the night being followed around by a herd of twinks commenting on my rainbow leg warmers and being approached by various well-dressed girls to participate in threesomes. #QUOTE# '''Demetri Martin:''' "It's weird how one group took refracted light. That's very greedy, gays."

I am an asexual, but my entire art class (save two or three people and the teacher) thinks that I'm gay. For various reasons, including: 1) I hate sports, 2) I obsess over the state of my female friend's hair, 3) I am very skinny, very tall and have a fairly good complexion, 4) I brag about being a good cook and 5) have never had a girlfriend. Another boy in my class is named Osama. He is most likely metrosexual- straight, but acts gay. This led to a very funny (only in retrospect; at the moment, very creepy) moment a few months ago. I was walking over to the cabinet to get some paint and when I walked past this one girl covered up her papers and started blushing profusely. When I asked her what it was about, she showed me the picture she was drawing: a slash picture of me and Osama. She apologized many times after I told her I wasn't gay. Very funny in retrospect. Very creepy at the time.

This Troper's father once asked if BobAndGeorge was a comic about gays. Well, there's Alternate George and Top Man, but all he knew about the comic was the title.

This Troper had a really annoying encounter with this trope: I, a self-professed straight man, posed for a photo, with a hand on a waist. Such gesture is, on my anger, associated with the Miss Universe contestants! I only realized this when, on my Facebook account, a lot of ''male'' bullies tagged my said photo and commented with the likes of "How gay!". I'll never post similar pictures again after that!

This asexual female Troper was mistaken for being a lesbian throughout her school years, as her best friend was lesbian. She took her best friend to the prom at the end of the year, but that was only cause we were both single. Now people tend to ship her with a guy she is very close to. Too bad he is her twin brother......and thats just wrong!

This troper is continuously mistaken for gay, even though she is a lesbian, her body is male, and pretty masculine at that. It gets to a ridiculous level when people then act like she is a straight male.

Are you the protagonist of ''All You Zombies''?

This troper's fundamentalist Pentecostal parents were RELIEVED to spot deleted female nude pictures in his Recycle Bin, because it meant he was not, as they feared, gay. They're not the first: he often hears "Are you SURE you're not gay?". Being fond of musicals and prone to man-crushes does not help.

This (male, and at the time in the closet) troper was mistaken for a lesbian one night in a common room at his foremer college. I was lying on a 4-seater couch in the dark watching a back and white film noir on tv (so teh room was very poorly lit), with my shirt off (it was summer and the AC was broken), and a girl came in from behind me, sat down on the arm where I couldn't see her, and she leant down over me, behind my head, and sarted stroking my stomach. I was 17, and had very little body hair, but I was also quite slim. I reacted as most lads of that age would, and started to caress her, but as i started to fondler her breasts, she started to feel my shoulders and back (this puzzles me greatly, but I was inexpeerienced and thoguht she knew what she was doing), then moved her hands around to my chest and began sliding them down my pecs from my shoulders, and she said "woah, topless, that's pretty brave". I just went "Ummm...", and she slid her hands down over my nipples and leapt up and excalimed "Oh, shit, you're male"

An amazing subversion happened to ThisTroper. He was chatting with a woman at an event when he casually mentioned his sexual orientation. "Oh, you're gay?" she said. I said yes. "Oh," she said. "That's too bad, I was going to hit on you. Maybe you should wear some kind of a sign." ''I was wearing a bright magenta shirt, a black sleeveless hoodie, Chucks with magenta-and-black checked shoelaces, and magenta-and-black checked elbow-length fingerless gloves!!'' I'm not sure how much more of a sign I could have been wearing!

This Troper did not have a girlfriend until he was 18. On one occasion, my dad felt the need to go out of his way to tell me that if I decided to come out, he wouldn't judge me. I just got really confused, confirmed that it was a nice sentiment, but assured him that I was straight. It was a really random and awkward conversation.

ThisTroper was often target of this. Guess reading books, being polite and at times Deadpan while always caring for the others makes a guy get the question "Are you gay?" disturbing often. Heck, even the last girlfriend ThisTroper was with asked that before everything.

This troper, at a campus LGBTQ organization nonetheless, gets frequently pegged as gay by some people and straight by others, despite repeatedly reminding people I'm bi/pan. Expect plenty more MistakenForGay when I come out as FtM, so...yeah.

This troper's straight male friend was asked out by another guy who assumed he was gay. Why? Because he's friends with this troper and her HeterosexualLifePartner, who the other guy assumed were a lesbian couple. So that was MistakenForGay twice at once. Another one of this troper's friend's mother assumed her father was gay. He's just a little bit CampStraight.

I (male, straight) was once referred to (jokingly) by a friend as her gay best friend. OK, so she was plaiting my newly straightened hair at the time (it was a dare, OK!)

troper is wrongly considered asexual by just about everyone in his school (I'm straight, ok). The fact I've never had a girlfriend probably causes this, because people never consider I might be too shy to ask someone out. I'm personally amazed I've never been Mistaken For Gay, as I've practically grown up with only my sister to talk to (not completely true, but I talk a lot more to her than anyone else and spent much of my childhood trusting only my sister: kinda embarrasing to think about now).

Turns out, after a lot of thought about my past and realising that I've never felt a sexual attraction to anything, that I AM asexual. However, I plan to point out that being asexual doesn't mean I have no romantic interest in anything. So, my argument is now changing to "I'm asexual, but I'm hetroromantic, so still technically straight." Sometimes I wonder if people assume that all asexuals have no romantic interest just because they don't aim to get laid every night (and, in the same vein, that romantic interest is the same as sexual interest, but I digress slightly)...

This troper has had her sexuality questioned numerous times due to her lack of boyfriend. (It's because of numerous factors, including living out in Dullsville, USA with no car, being around JerkAss guys and guys who were taken or gay, overprotective parents, and being kind of an oddball.) She went off to college, and it was a women's college. (It was well-known for this troper's major. Plus it allowed her to get away from the aforementioned JerkAss guys.) She was helping her mom fold towels, when out of the blue, her mother mentioned, "...And if you bring home a girl, I might not approve, but I will eventually come to accept it..." This troper looked at her mother in shock, "Excuuuuse me?!"

This troper is genuinely surprised that he has mostly averted this trope. Seriously, take this into acount:

He hates to play sports, except for volleyball and tennis.

He has been in choir and FACS(Basically Home Ec with a name change).

He likes to draw.

He has had all of ''one'' crush throughout middle school.

He is asexual.

However, he ''has'' had one moment of this, in choir, where they had a mock AmericanIdol. He was with his brother, and said brother was the "guest judge" dog whisperer. Trying to be funny, he played the dog. Cue IncestSubtext moment that caused the girls behind us to start giggling.

I had this happen on a few occasions in high school. It didn't help that I had a rather close friendship with another guy that could easily be mistaken for HoYay, even having two "breakup" periods where I wasn't quite myself, and that I only got a girl to look at me as anything but a weirdo once, in a SpringtimeForHitler incident on Fail Day. Of course, the mistaken assumption that ''everybody'' who openly believes that homosexuality is wrong is secretly queer ended up translating into this. Oh, and being a fan of ProfessionalWrestling for the first half of high school, and a less masculine voice than I would like, and that neon green pimp jacket... OK, so I have a few ambiguous qualities, and my constantly hitting on a particular girl (and later, her younger sister, after the original was expelled due to alcohol possession) could have been seen as HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday, but I don't have a gay bone in my body. It ended after that girl was expelled anyway, or more specifically after I proved that, despite the ambiguous qualities, I wasn't playing Day of Reckoning 2 for men in tights.

This Troper is (1) intersex; (2) transsexual, though in light of point (1) from what to what is a bit of a dodgy question; and (3) asexual, though gyno- and transaffectionate. Raised as male, I was solidly filed away as "gay" by straight people, even when I was dating lesbians. (Remember the Rule of Straight Thinking: ambiguous gender == male and gay.) Gay men, on the other hand, were not fooled by the Gaydar Ground Clutter. They knew I had a bizarre radar signature they couldn't begin to figure out, but I surely wasn't gay.

This troper gets called a lesbian a lot. All because I don't date any guys, don't wear 10ft of makeup, don't wear a skirt that's two centimetres long, and prefers not to bare my chest. I don't wear makeup because my face gets irritated from the chemicals and things, plus I'd prefer to let people see my true face. I don't wear skirts because trackpants are comfier and I don't like skirts. I don't bare my chest or my legs because I fought long and hard with eczema and general dermatitis, and I still have unsightly scabbing and scarring on my chest and legs. People have actually tried to peel my shirt off to see if I'm telling the truth. Please go away, I'm telling the truth. Want pictures of my hands and chest and face when I was itching them? ''They were red raw, broken and oozing.'' It looked like they were diseased. I doubt you could deal with that.

This female troper considered wearing pants to her 8th grade promotion (I'm not a big dress person, but I wore one anyway). My mom told me that there was one girl at the school my dad works at who wore pants, but she was a lesbian. I had to assure my own mother I was not gay. The fact I'ver never had a boyfriend and I'm more interested in boy fashion doesn't help either. (Boy school uniforms are adorable, I can't help it.)

Due to his fashion sense, and the fact that he's a male working in a hair salon, this troper is often MistakenForGay, they're half right though, I'm bisexual, my gay side just shows more

This troper is a closeted MTF transsexual, likes women, is pro-gay rights, looks like a proverbial gay bear, (though a tad short), and goes to school with one of his two sister, (triplets). It seems people either think I'm gay, or I'm with that "cute girl with short hair on the soccer team, i.e. my sister (mistaken for non-incest??? or for incest???) , who also is mistaken for gay. Actually, one of my friends guessed right, based on the fact I repeatedly played girl characters in games and pursued the GayOption when available. Run-on sentence....

This troper is quite confused but believes that she is asexual. She was mistaken for lesbian for years due to a rather bad case of StrawFeminist which I grew out of, thank God. I've had to correct a fair number of people who thought I was a lesbian since then.

This troper's English teacher, the poor man. He has the stereotypical "gay" feminine sounding voice, is very metrosexual, and absolutely hilarious for it. Everyone loves him. However, Many new students still think he's gay; only problem is that he's ''not''. He has a wife and three kids, for chrisakes. *cue accusations of "in the closet"* <-- whatever.

All too often. I personally have had my sister, HeterosexualLifePartner and ex-girlfriend make this mistake.

I was at a restaurant on New Year's Eve when a good, close friend walked in. We were comfortable enough with each other and with ourselves that we ran into a hug shouting each other's names. Turns out my gay neighbor was in the restaurant, too. I introduced my friend and he introduced the guy who I assume was his date. Then he asked us, "So, where did you two meet?" I didn't think anything of it until he had walked away.

I knew a girl who was assumed to be a lesbian because she was a vegetarian. Seriously.

I've known a few straight girls with butch haircuts. I also have a childhood friend who looks somewhat like a CampGay, but is happily married to a girl.

My Dad has been mistaken for gay a few times, being a hairdresser, he is kind of a target for it. Interestingly he has been mistaken for gay outside of work more often than when on business. Compare and contrast me, his perpetually single son, who likes cooking and is prone to attachment to cutesy things, who is never mistaken for gay, or at least hasn't been yet.

I got mistaken for gay a ''lot'' when I first arrived at my new school. My friend Kenny still teases me all the time about my supposed CampStraight mannerisms.

This troper, being a short, slim, effeminate, Asian who is younger than they look, is occasionally mistaken for being gay. It doesn't help that he is metrosexual, loves clothes, shopping, insists on being a sharp dressed man, cooking, writing poetry, theater and knows shiatsu. Long time friends still tease him on occasion, and still ship him with other male friends. Often leads to Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today.

This troper is yet another aspie. I have had to tell my own brother that I'm straight about 100 times by now. It doesn't help that one of my friends at school IS gay.

This troper's coworker regularly bemoans the fact that he can't find a girlfriend because everyone thinks he's gay. When the troper pointed out that he's obsessed with clothes, shoes, musical theatre and cooking, which can confuse a certain type of mind, he returned that a woman who wears combat boots, drinks bourbon straight-up, plays the drums and aggressively pursues cute boys should have more sympathy.

This tropette has a pair of friends who had a vicious lesbian rumor spread about them because (IANMTU) they were ''holding hands'' in Spanish class. Needless to say, this tropette does not live in a homo-friendly area.

This troper goes out of his way to make sure people are aware of his asexuality, but has been mistaken for straight and gay. At least once by the same person, which I admit to have brought upon myself by giving the MathematiciansAnswer. On an unrelated note, he has intentionally placed himself on the other side of this trope by interrupting a straight couple's highly public moment of intimacy by saying "Go back to California, queers!", getting him more than a few strange looks.

This troper has been assumed to be gay by several people ever since grade school, even by people he has known for years. A large part of it is probably down to my being somewhat aloof, generally disinterested in relationships, mostly hanging around with girls, and having more than a few "gay mannerisms." In reality I'm completely straight and have spent the better part of two years pining for my female best friend. Whenever I'm not mistaken for gay I'm mistaken for being in a relationship with said friend, which can make going after women I'm actually interested in VERY damn frustrating.

Oh, joy...this went on for a while in late middle school, and carried over into highschool/university despite going to completely institutions for all three with practically no overlap student-wise. Among the highlights for this troper are being hit on by his best friend, who he'd known since they were 10, and having a female friend in the closing days of highschool use the phrase, "Wait, you're ''not'' gay?" with genuine surprise (even when she attempted to play it off as a joke). In the case of the latter, in her defense, even this troper's closest friends were surprised that he had a girlfriend. Not because they thought he was gay, either, but because he just never brought it up. It probably doesn't help that he tends to give good relationship advice that most girls would expect from the 'gay best friend'.

This troper notices there appears to be a trend in people assuming that if one is disinterested in relationships, people mistake one for gay. This one has been mistaken for many things and gay is just another mark on hilarious misunderstandings score card. The best two were my best friend's, who I've known most of my life, sister thinking I was gay for a number of years and one guy my freshmen year in high school. The former was a simple mistake, the latter was someone playing on the assumption of disinterest = gay and constantly using the accusations to irritate. Thankfully most people since have just let me be.

This Troper and her mother were once mistaken for gay with each other. NoJustNo .

This troper is mistaken for gay on a daily basis. In fact, a girl once asked him if he was gay, across the crowded classroom, while class was in session. The teacher didn't even respond.

Though, the fact that most his friends are girls, and all his conversations with them cosist of discussing DesperateHousewives Glee and GreysAnatomy, each outfit is carefully color coordinated, lead actor in drama, lead soloist in show choir, plays flute, and acts gay with a guy friend to get on the nerves of all the BibleThumpers doesn't really help. I'm asexual by the way.

Sometimes, the girls in my class asks me if I think any boys in class are cute, or if I've had/have a boyfriend, and I say no, I don't. Then, I instantly have to add "and no, none of the girls either" because I just know they're going to ask. I'm straight as far as I know, I just haven't met any guys that interested me yet. (Actually, I sometimes wonder if I'm asexual...)

This very campy gay troper is frequently mistaken for being bi, apparently two of this troper's best friends think that never having a boyfriend means you're bi. ( I'm just shy-ish) A bi (male) friend of this troper also told him that he sends off "bi vibes".

This lesbian troper and her bisexual best friend, constantly. Though it probably doesn't help that her friend likes to retrieve things from this troper's bra in front of everyone, or that we have no problem eating lollies off each other's tongues during Truth or Dare.

This Troper is mistaken for gay fairly often. She is a girl who prefers to wear men's clothing, loves to watch baseball, plays video games, and is still a virgin/hasn't had a boyfriend in 5 years. But on the other side of the coin, she's unathletic, loves cute things, squees like a fangirl over silly things, likes to bake, and hates almost all other sports (she can tolerate basketball and soccer (for shallow reasons)). She can understand the shallow reasoning, but it still bugs her.

This troper is very much straight, but loves wearing Ties, vests, blazers, etc. I have very short hair and a low voice, to the point where my older sister said, "You know, [name] sometimes I wonder if you were supposed to be a flambouyant gay guy but came out wrong." The spanish teacher at my school even called me a gentleman, and it doesn't help that I have a gender neutral name. And I have a bunch of very very close girlfriends.

This Troper is a girl with a boy's name and a fondness for Chuck Taylors. Somehow, a good 75% of the people she knows are convinced she is gay. Her friends have found themselves arguing with random acquaintances over this. Not sure where the evidence for this has come from: many gay friends? GSA member? penchant for menswear?

This Troper actually decided to start fueling rumors that he was gay along with his best friend... back in the third grade. It seemed like a good idea at the time because back then we had a very limited understanding of how sexuality worked. It doesn't help that we have continued to spread this rumor just for laughs, nor does it help that this troper is a drama geek who feels more comfortable in a suit or a dress than normal clothes. I'm male by the by.

This Troper experienced the Mistaken For Bi varient. I'm in a very serious relationship with a girl at the moment, and knowing this, my gay friend knew I wasn't gay as well. The following conversation ensued:

Friend: [Adekis], I hope you don't mind me asking, but... do your parents know?

Me: Know what?

Friend: That you're bi.

Me: Well, I-

Friend: If you don't wanna say that's alright, but-

Me: I'm not bi. It turned into a CrowningMomentOfFunny because I started laughing my ass off and he wouldn't quit apologizing. His excuse? He thought nobody straight would be friends with him because he was gay. It's just so damned funny! Fortunately, I set the record straight with him for that.

This troper's boyfriend was mistaken for gay, by her parents. They told me one or two months after we started going out. It was not funny. I have no any idea why they tought that. He was a computer geek with no sense of fashion and even though I was his first girlfriend at the age of 19, he did have a girlfriend! I told them that that all my friends and all his friends were pushing us to match up, which was true. We are still together after 11 years.

This Troper once heard her mother talking with a friend and telling her about her brother/my uncle and how their family had mistaken him for gay for years, because he didn't bring home any girlfriends. Now he's married with a kid, so they were wrong, but given how my mother seemed to be relieved by that fact, it makes me quite nervous to think I'll have to come out as bisexual to my parents some day. On that note, when I met with the LGBT group of my university for the first time, one of the guys automatically assumed I was a lesbian. Not totally wrong, since my bisexuality leans more towards women, but still.

I remember back at junior high, I had a huge crush on a girl, which almost got to full-blown stalking, so I decided to back off to avoid scaring her. Years later, a friend of mine tells me she more than once asked him if I was gay.

I have this happen to me, since I don't have a boyfriend, or talk to boys, and hang out with only girls. My grandma tends to worry about this.

Grandmothers are bad like that. This male trooper's grandmother, after my sister announced her engagement, has been asking repetitively about if I know any 'special young women.' It got to the point where, I swear to God, she offered me a gym membership because there were: "Lots of lovely young ladies down at the gym. And men." FACEPALM. You know you're in trouble when you're grandma thinks your gay.

This Troper is by no means an artist but he enjoys drawing, and it just so happens that his preferred art style is "Manga/Anime" and it also just so happens that a majority of the characters he draws happen to be Young, buff, effeminate males. And according to some of this tropers so-called ''friends'', since he draws ''"Buff looking dudes with half of their clothes torn off"'' (Their words, not mine), He '''Must''' be gay...apparntly they overlook ''the blood they're covered in and the swords they're holding''.

They must think you're gay and ''into'' that.

This troper had an odd one. He's usually mistaken for straight, which is fine since he's in a relationship with a girl (I'm bi, so is she) but his previous relationship was with a boy, and my mum kept using the word "gay". Even though I was in a relationship with a girl before THAT and ''she knew it.''

This troper once fell for a guy who appeared to be gay. As it turned out, despite his mannerism suggesting as such, he was straight, though if he ever turns out to be trapped in the closet, I wouldn't be surprised.

This troper, very often. Short hair, androgynous clothing, no boyfriend = she must be a lesbian! It turns out they're only half-right--I'm pan but closeted--but I resent being stereotyped.

More recently I was informed that apparently a few acquaintances think that because I have no boyfriend, I'm asexual. Their exact line of reasoning was, "She only ever talks about being attracted to old British guys!" I don't know what's funnier--that their guess was so completely wrong, or the implications that apparently, as asexual people aren't sexually attracted to people, old British guys aren't a valid option for attraction/don't exist.

My entire school year (and a few other years) are convinced that I'm a lesbian. Subverted though as I'm a homo-romantic asexual.

"This guy's pecs are HUGE" "[sarcastically] ...yummy..." And now my friends have a running joke that I'm gay, though they know I'm straight. Strangers play this trope straight though, perhaps because of my skinny jeans, long hair, predispositoin to boutrs of high pitched crazy giggling, and my anti-homophobic beliefs.

This Troper, to his great embarrassment and little irritation, regularly gets hit on by homosexual men while walking through some of the more LGBT friendly neighborhoods of certain cities. It's a combination of his (admittedly) somewhat waifish looks (Some say I look bishonen, although that's not exactly the word to use in my opinion since it usually refers to guys who are ''universally'' attractive, not just attractive in a feminine way), very unmanly behavior (sometimes downright womanly...) and his tendency to only hang around with girls (most of my male friends prefer staying at home playing D&D, so I usually go out to the city with female friends). I guess it's flattering that some people think I am pretty enough to hit on me, but I would really like it better if they were girls...

This troper recently learnt that "Oh my god I love your dress!" is not the most heterosexual of first impressions to make on someone. At one point I actually had to go through a whole coming-out thing with my parents, except I had to come out as straight since even they had assumed I was gay xD

This tropette, who is infamous in her Nakama as being the born-again Christian/Republican with a raging crush on David Tennant, gets mistaken as a lesbian on a daily basis. Why? Because I have very short hair, wear nerdy T-shirts, and never had a boyfriend.

This troper has never had a boyfriend, doesn't wear makeup, and the only two friends in her grade are male. So naturally, this trope has come up from everyone (parents included). The sad thing is, I'm not sure either...

This troper had this happen multiple times, due to my preference to stay out of relationships with girls, dislike of many "manly" things (like sports; I prefer drawing and acting), and almost brotherly feelings towards his (all-male, mind you) {{Nakama}}.

This troper subverts this trope, having a female friend who lets this troper hang on her shoulders or cling to her arm all the time (including during school presentations in front of the class), and never being questioned at all.

This troper likes women yet is quite picky, cue the classic: Do you really like girls?.

This troper has had this from her ''parents''. And, not really anyone else, vocally at least. Except her art teacher, because on top of being a {{Bifauxnen}} and not having a boyfriend, she was drawing a picture of a girl in class- and was following the standard method and drawing the body before putting clothes on it. That prompted this gem. #QUOTE#'''Art Teacher''': *sees picture* ...You know, Rian, if you ever have anything you need to tell anyone, I'm here.

One of my girl friends (two words) from high school now looks like a {{butch lesbian}}, although her Facebook still says she's straight. A straight guy friend of mine also from high school looks rather campy, especially with long hair.

Near the end of my high school career I discovered that I was presumed to be not only a lesbian, but sleeping with my best friend. We both were -- and still are -- quite feminine, but I suppose our friendship with several openly bisexual and lesbian girls (as well as her fondness for stroking my then-extremely long hair whenever the urge struck her) prevailed in the eyes of our classmates. I recently told this story to my boyfriend, who was horribly disappointed, as guys are wont to be, that it was merely a case of {{Mistaken For Gay}}. ----

This Troper increasingly more often as time goes by. Being a {{Bifauxnen}} probably doesn't help my cause. Cause y'know tomboys are total lesbians. It started at work after I became friends with another girl who latched on pretty quick since she didn't have any female friends to talk anime to. It wasn't long after did she get asked if we're dating. And at least one other woman at the store is still convinced that we love each other. (Nevermind that I'm an Ace and she's Straight) And then there was that waitress at the bar... I have a feeling this is going to happen unless I fake latch onto a guy.

This Troper was mistaken for a lesbian by several coworkers when I started my new job at a pizza bar. This was due to my light makeup, my love for rainbow-colored jewelry, and the fact that I never flirted with any male coworkers. In my defense, I hardly ever flirt with ''anyone'', rarely male and never female. Also, I'm not going to wear full-blown makeup in a hot, sweaty kitchen just to prove I'm straight. They got me on the rainbows, though. I just never grew out of my Lisa Frank accessories. Back to being MistakenForGay, NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat.