I have a friend who puts up a facade of this in order to become a MemeticMolester. Niko (Not his name) will find you in the night.

A guy in This troper's school came out about two years ago. This is how that conversation went: "Guys... I'm gay." "We know!"

This closet bi trooper feels she might be either ambiguous or transparent. A conversation last week basicly ran: #QUOTE#This trooper: ...So, you're coming?\\ Friend A: I would be ''honored''!\\ Friend B: What's happening?\\ A: Trooper just invited me to her wedding!\\ B: Awesome. Who's the lucky man? And when I say man, I kinda mean ''wo''man.

Once, this troper's Gay-Straight Alliance was hosting a Q&A session at their school open to anyone who wanted to learn more about LGBTQ issues. This kid in the audience stood up and proceeded to inform us how he was a conservative Christian who thought homosexuality was disgusting....in a really, really stereotypically gay voice complete with hand movements and his hip out. Turns out, one of my gay guy friends knows him and he is a fundie ArmoredCloseted Camp Gay who started to come out of the closet last year...only to freak out and go scurrying back in.

Also, this lesbian troper herself, apparently. When she came out to one her best friends, said friend responded with "I know. I've known your were gay since we were 10." I said "Well, you should have told me about it, because I was so confused for so long..."

This editor had a date with a guy who was closeted and insisted on keeping things "discreet". However, he was ''way'' more flaming than this editor ever is and even lives in Phoenix's {{Gayborhood}}.

It was such a bad idea for this (lesbian, but at the time sort of desperate) troper to date a guy that her former friend, who she was just barely on "hello" terms with, had apparently been puzzled and confused that this troper had a boyfriend. Apparently, the fact that the relationship was doomed to fail was so obvious that it had trickled down to somebody that wanted nothing to do with this troper. When this troper finally realized it too, and started dating a girl, her former friend came up and ''cheerily congratulated her.''

This Troper has a friend who subverts this. She is, as a friend has commented, "As lesbian as you can get except for, y'know, not liking girls." Many people refuse to believe she's not in a TransparentCloset, despite her having no problems with homosexuality, her amused reactions to attempts to get her to come out, and her half amusement half exasperation when girls come on to her. And once one gets to know her she stops tripping gaydar, it's just the first impression that sets it off.

...there is a female version of me? Sah-weet! Probably belongs in MistakenForGay...

This bisexual troper is a partial example of this, as most of her peers and friends believed her to be a lesbian and her father half-expected her to be of alternative sexuality. The only one who was even remotely surprised was her mother, who comes from a very conservative Filipino family. As soon as I sat down and talked to each and every one of them, they knew ALREADY what I was going to say. So much of my coming out was to myself, as I had believed myself to be heterosexual until masturbating to a picture of Audrey Hepburn and salivating at the exposed thighs of a classmate wearing a very short skirt. Not at the same time though. I also have a crush on Stanislav Ianevski and am a sucker for hairy chests.

This troper's drama club had Kenneth, who was about 6'6, wore very tight clothes, spoke with a high-pitched lisp, and was allowed to watch an extremely well-endowed girl while she stripped to put on her bikini top (he was holding a towel to cover her from the rest of the people at the party). Yet some people, this troper included, believed him to be straight after they learned he had a girlfriend. Finally, he had to admit that everyone was starting to have their doubts, and came out, leading everyone to exasperatedly exclaim how obvious it was.

On a related note, a friend of this troper's, David, was also extremely obviously gay, with the high-pitched lisp, tight jeans, flamboyant movements and actions (Including screaming "BUG! BUG! BUG!" and dancing on his tiptoes when he saw a bug in a drawer he opened), and jokes about his gayness. He mentioned how he finally came out to Kenneth, and one of the techies said "When you come out to Kenneth, you come out to everyone." This troper dryly remarked how we all knew it anyway.

Apparently, my closet wore pretty thin over the years, though I'm bi, not lesbian. I'm still in the closet by omission, mostly due to the fact I'm in a Catholic school. If someone asked me, I won't lie, but for now, I'm keeping it to myself and other internet people.

This troper believes his closet is extremely transparent; being a seventeen-year-old boy who's never even expressed interest in girls and actually laughs when people suggest he get a girlfriend. Yet his family still doesn't get it. Denial's not just another state in the union]] a river in Egypt.

This troper is exactly the same in behavior due to - is there a trope for "doesn't feel like bothering withseeking romance?" - and wonders how many people assume his lack of obsession with sexing up women ''must'' mean the ''presence'' of such a sentiment toward men.

{{Asexuality}}?

This is why people make that assumption.

This troper has two friends who everyone "knows" are gay, but are still in the closet. The more flamboyant of the two has come out to this troper and a few other very close friends. The other (who admittedly ''might'' be bi rather than gay) has engaged in certain activities with this troper, has attempted to do so with the first friend, and is rumored to have felt up other guys in their sleep, but still says that he is completely straight.

This troper is, except for a few quirks, StraightGay, and usually doesn't talk about it. What makes his closet practically invisible is the rainbow band that's hanging out of his pocket most of the time, although not everyone knows what that means in this area. He's positive that his family knows, although they seem to be oblivious to this fact. They frequently try to provoke a coming out, e.g. by snickeringly suggesting he should get a girlfriend, which he is getting increasingly pissy about. So basically everybody knows about it, but nobody openly talks about it. By now it's practically nothing more than a psychological game: Who teases the other party into bringing up the topic first?

This lesbian troper (who's closet isn't invisible), once had a friend of hers come out to her. She's ButchLesbian and expected me to think she was joking.

Are you sure your closet's visible?

This Troper's mother. DoesNotLikeMen, doesn't like sex, has suspicious tastes in guys (she only likes them if they're really feminine), and has ogled other women's chests on numerous occasions. All of her kids ''swear'' up and down she's at least bi- as does ''her own mother'' (aka This Troper's maternal grandma). She gets really pissed off whenever it's pointed out- probably because she thinks that if she falls in love with another woman, she has to get a sex change. Which, incidentally, does not fare well for this StraightGay FtM troper...

Ouch... My mom fits the latter, "...if you like girls, what is the big deal about staying a guy?"

It also works for the aforementioned troper himself. Apparently, even if he's introduced to someone as a female, most people (save his family who's in denial) can see his male gender identity '''FROM SPACE'''. Although his love for men...not so much.

Until this summer, this troper's CampGay friend said he was ''straight''. He then came out before school started, to no one's surprise-- unless you count our surprise that he ''wasn't already out yet'' (our group is the school's [=GSA=], pretty much.) As well, said troper has a female friend who constantly acted like she was in love with another female friend (who is at least bi now) who everyone said would hook up with ''another'' female friend who was the above bifauxnen's heterosexual life partner. ''Yeah''.

Since TVTropesWillRuinYourVocabulary, this troper refers to a certain classmate of his as "Transparent Closet". Not in front of him, obviously (although he's a huge DeadpanSnarker, so possibly wouldn't mind).

There is this one guy at This Troper's school who is so extraordinarily camp, everyone thinks/knows he's gay, even my gay friend knows he's gay, he gets offended if someone calls him gay, really either he doesn't know or is in a strong case of denial.

Yeah, my mum's really ''really'' totally straight. It doesn't mean anything that she lived alone in the woods with her friend for six years and later made her my godmother, that she's never been able to hold a relationship with a man for more than a few years yet has female friendships going back almost half a century, that she and her female coworker go on camping trips and ''to TeganAndSara concerts'' together, or that she explicitly thinks that Vanessa from ''{{Madlax}}'' is 'nice'. Sure, mum, you're totally straight. I believe you. Really. (To be fair, she may be so repressed that she doesn't even realise it herself, in which case it being so obvious to other people means that she's ''just. That. Gay.'')

I knew a guy back in high school who was a couple of years older than me; we were both in the school play. He was playing a CampGay character and basically only had to play himself -- he had all the stereotypical mannerisms, voice, etc. Most of the cast simply assumed he was gay and we befriended him regardless, but when the subject came up he vehemently denied it -- according to him, he was admittedly effeminate but straight. And the thing is, we took him at his word because we didn't want to stereotype him and in any case he had no apparent reason to lie. Anyway, some three years later, guess who I ran into in a gay club?

My short-haired, flannel-wearing roommate mentioned being president of a Gay Straight Alliance and unpacked her rainbow mug before telling me she was bi. Oh, I was ''so'' surprised!

If that's how specific she was, it's quite possible (nay, likely) that she meant "not gay, just bi" or "bi, not just gay" (depending on your point of view) rather than "BiTheWay, I'm not entirely what you might call 'heterosexual'".

This troper has a Bishonen friend who is incredibly camp and spent a whole year hitting on me (also male) in front of our whole circle of friends. We have been convinced he's not entirely straight ever since, but he recenty got a girlfriend and started acting homophobic. Jokes about how he and I are fuckbuddies are still common, and no-one will be surprised if he comes out. However, it now seems like he's telling the truth, and really is straight.

Apparently this Bi troper's closet is not as opaque as previously believed. Helpful note: While it's still better than rejection or threats to burn the heretic, saying, "Well, DUH!" is also not a very supportive response when someone comes out to you.

One of this troper's ex-friends was very adamantly convinced I'm gay whenever we argued about my sexuality. His line of logic was based entirely on completely ridiculous reasons, like the fact that I happen to own a mechanical pocket watch or the fact that I'm an American who drinks tea like an Englishman on a regular basis instead of drinking sweet tea -- "Never mind that he's not CampGay in any sense of the phrase, I'll use 'clues' I vaguely think will prove my point in an effort to out this guy" is what he was clearly thinking. I got so fed up with his thinly-veiled (read: outright stated) insinuations of my sexuality that I gave up and told him I'm gay just to appease him and have since never tried to hide my sexuality from him. He didn't just miss his target blindfolded; he shot in the completely wrong direction, painted a target where he thought the arrow landed, and was ''still'' off the mark by several yards. And haughtily accepted his "victory" when I gave up out of sheer annoyance.

My brother's ex girlfriend: she has as many lesbian stereotypes as I could imagine (agressive behavior, likes sports, dresses very un-girly, she does not like to be touched by men and on and on...) but I didn't suspect anything because (and starting with my mother) I'm very used to see women that act "manly" but are not necesarly lesbians, and while there was a couple of times when her behavior seemed odd (she was good finding the weirdest excuses to NOT kiss my brother) I asumed that it was just the way she is (And I can't judge her anyway: I'm straight as an arrow but I like romantic stories, stuffed animals and the musical theather...yeah). Unfortunely, my brother is a hopeless romantic (even more that I am), and her heart was broken (even considering suicide...no kidding here) any suggestions?

This Troper's mother saw right through me and eventually told me that she knew I was gay.

This troper was in a semi-transparent closet: he was happy to join in conversations about which men he found attractive, and had kissed a few of his male friends (as a greeting, which isn't teh local custom), but insisted he was straight (he's actually bi)

One of his friends enjoys watching meatspin, and ogles men's crotches, but he insists he's straight. Since he is known to pick up a large number of young ladies for casual flings (usually little more than one-night-stands), we assume he is bi.

Several of his female friends are or were in a glass fronted cocktail cabinet: they wouldn't do anything in public with any other girl until they were holding a drink. Occasionally one would be caught out, because, for example, they had forgotten to even open their first drink of the night, but on the whole everyone pretended to believe them.

This StraightGay troper has lived happily in one for years, managed by a wonderful combination of chastity and distractions (not what you're thinking of, by the way). Basically 90% of his friends, family, and even a few close aquantices were pretty sure he was at least bi, while he allows himself to think about the issue in ambiguous terms while attempting (half-heartedly) to date young women. Recently he's forced himself to confront the issue, it isn't becoming any easier. He's considering "coming out" if only to be able to talk about it without using euphemisms or innuendo.

This Troper's friends always knew she had some attraction to girls as well as guys. Friends used to tell her back in high school that she was bisexual but she jus doesn’t know it. Her cousin introduced her to ecchi and hentai back in 2004 and she isn’t able to watch anything that isn’t ecchi or hentai ever since. Then she joined a game forum and her transparent closet wore really thin as she displayed her love for anything {{Ikkitousen}} especially Kanu Unchou and even has a folder dedicated to her. She went as far as telling people she only watches {{Ikkitousen}} ‘for the story’ which no body believed. Finally after heavy denial and homoerotic dreams, one of her friends pretty much told her that she was in fact bisexual but in heavy denial due to her parents being homophobic Jamaicans.

This Troper was living as male at eighteen ... and sleeping exclusively with lesbians, most of whom called me "one of the girls." Crossdressed for the first time at 20 and caused doubletakes from friends who thought I was a female double for myself, because I was so comfortable. Finally came out as trans, and all of my trans friends said "what the hell took you so long?" Went for hormone treatments, and preliminary testing uncovered first that I had weird hormone levels and then that I was a cryptic hermaphrodite. At this point my intersex friends said, "yeah, no shit, we guessed that already".

This Troper knows a young boy in junior high. He wears his hair in spikes, colorful shirts, rainbow suspenders, and pants with sandels. He will venomsly deny being gay, even though he has a lisp and a limp wrist. Justified that if he came out, his father would kill him. No, ''literaly'' kill him.

A guy in this troper's year does... a lot of dancing, and tends to flick his wrists and is generaly flamboyant. He is, however, ridicuously opposed to the idea of being gay. No-one is fooled.

Apparently, this troper. So far everyone this troper's admitted her bisexuality too, no one's been surprised. To quote some of the reactions while telling them/trying to tell them: "Oh, I know that already", "I KNEW IT", "meh" and in the middle of implying it "Are you trying to tell me you're bi?"

I once heard a story about a man whose friend posted "I'm gay" as his a status message on {{Facebook}} ... and who immediately received a huge outpouring of messages offering congratulations, support, and understanding for coming out. Whether the man actually ''was'' gay was unknown.

This troper. All of my friends think I am a lesbian when they first meet me. Even online friends. It's so prevalent that I often get labelled as 'the lesbian' on forums I frequent, and comments about me being into girls are very common among my friends. Whenever I do come out as bisexual, they're always more surprised that I'm actually interested in boys as well as girls. Even my brother, who I hardly even speak to anymore because we don't get along, seems to think I'm gay, if his asking me to go to a strip club with him was any indication.

I recently became more comfortable with coming out and mentioned "officially" that I am gay. #QUOTE# '''My Friends''': No surprises there. #QUOTE# '''My ''mother''''': Would have thought you the more bisexual type.

* This troper's class mate has a picture of a half naked man on his "What I am" poster, yet makes anti homosexual statements.. It is actually quite inferiating. In defence he did come out as such, and nobody reacted at all. THEN the homo bashing came out.

This troper. My closest friend (we've known each other since ''before pre-school'', for God's sake!) apparently knew this whole time I was bi and yet continued to go along with my belief that I was not only straight, but homophobic. (I later found out I wasnt ''homo''phobic, but ''metro''phobic. *shudders*) Even my middle school+ friends werent suprised when I came out to them: #QUOTE# '''Friend 1''': Wow. What a shocker. #QUOTE# '''Friend 2''': I fucking knew it. #QUOTE# '''Friend 3''': Just don't hit on me, okay? I've got a reputation to keep up. #QUOTE# '''Friends 1 and 2, and Me''': ''WHAT REPUTATION?!?''

This troper was sort of like this (more StraightGay, really - I was perfectly happy with being gay, I just didn't feel the need to anounce it to everyone) but one day when I was sixteen, my younger sister turns around and says, "Hey, you're gay right? Which member of Shinee do you think is cutest?" and all I could do was wryly remark, "Was it that obvious?" Of course, she's a very smart girl.

Subverted with This Troper. I ''thought'' I was in danger of being this because, when I came back to university for my third year, I didn't have crushes on any of the girls and had a tiny little voice that repeatedly told me that I was gay and just in denial. The fact that I'm a stereotypical hopeless romantic, don't have any interest in sleeping around with every girl I meet (abstaining until marriage) and have quite a lot of gay friends contributed further doubts. However, when I tried to "come out" to myself it was an ''EpicFail'' because I could not get any "reactions" when looking at men. Eventually, one of my gay friends summed my condition up as, "You're not gay - you're just still in shock from learning you were an UnluckyChildhoodFriend". I later learned that I have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and am now undergoing CBT to recover.

This troper came out to his grandmother, and all she said was "When you were five, you wanted to dance." This troper likes to think that he's a ''little'' more StraightGay than that, but you can't argue with results.

This pansexual troper should fall into this as I openly express my interest in both girls and guys but apparently nobody pays any attention to my sexuality beyond "You find Roy Mustang sexy?" Funnily enough last year I told a boy in my class that I was a lesbian because he was being homophobic. When asked by my friends if I was when it spread around I said that I wasn't. I didn't lie... People shouldn't assume things.

My uncle was married only once, and he shows little to no interest in women, but he has a tendency to befriend handsome boys half his age and spend large amounts of his income paying for their college classes, buying them presents, eating expensive dinners with them, etc. We figured something was up when we discovered that at least one of those dinners was by candlelight (because he knocked a candle over and set his house on fire.) I don't think he'll ''ever'' admit he's gay.

A possible subversion: One of this troper's D&D partners is very, ''very'' metrosexual. When I first met him, I was 99% sure that he was gay. However, as it turns out, he has a wife. She might be TheBeard, but it's enough to make me doubt my initial assumption.

When I was a senior in high school, there was one freshman in our drama troupe that was very obviously in the closet. He was very CampGay for a supposedly straight guy, and never exhibited any interest in girls outside of friendship. I know those aren't definite indicators, but I just got a feeling from him, and told him all the time that really, it was cool if he was gay. It was theater. We didn't care. A few months later, cue the "...guys? I'm gay" followed by a chorus of duhs.

One of this troper's best friends came out senior year of high school. He was actually pretty mad that basically everyone's reaction was "I thought so."

I've actually had several cases of this, but the most obvious one was when I met friend's new boyfriend. I pretty much got that he was bisexual after the first fifteen minutes of talking to this guy. So once he came out, everybody only shrugged and said they knew except, oddly enough, his girlfriend who was honestly surprised.

This Troper was in one of these until recently... she came out during a school assembly after an upcoming LGBT event was announced. Everyone was really supportive. Her closest friends have said that there were a lot of hints from early on, and even a couple of friends she met on deviantART and doesn't know in real life either pretty much knew or suspected. The martial arts, knowledge of how to use a rifle, extreme distaste for skirts and even MORE extreme distaste for dresses, lack of much care for personal appearance, crazily short hair, generally guy-like behavior and ''lesbian {{Shadowrun}} character'' probably tipped everyone off. To be fair, she was hiding in the Asexuality closet, not the heterosexuality one.

I am in one of these. It's pretty comfy, really.

This troper had a friend in high school who was very CampGay, but didn't come out until around senior year, I think. He's also an accomplished martial artist.

This troper's sister once sat her down with some shocking news: one of her best high school friends had just announced he was gay! "I'm sorry, was that supposed to be surprising?"

I have a cousin who've I've known since his birth(we are basically brothers) and since day one its been pretty obvious, he played with nothing but dolls, hangs out almost exclusively with girls, his idol is Rupaul, and when he was little he asked his mom if he could be a girl(she told him they'd have to cut of his penis, his response, "Would it hurt?"). He's had girlfriends but every one of his relationships ended in disaster, and he never ever hits on girls(though I just chalked it up to him not being a pervert. Then about 5 months ago another cousin of mine came out(ironically my first cousin always accused him of being in the TransparentCloset), at the sametime my first cousin also came out... as bisexual, which is fine I have nothing against bisexual, but again he never hit on any woman but did hit on every guy he thought was hot. Finally about two months ago he changed his status on facebook from intrested in both to just intrested in men, when I asked him about it he just said he identifies himself more as gay,though he still doesn't like labels. Wierd thing was most people in our family were happier that he's now saying he's gay, they thought he should "choose" one or the other. Now I'm just waiting for him to become a Drag Queen, I don't know if there's such a thing as a Transparent Transgender Closet.