Normally Osamu isn't particularly effeminate. He looks quite feminine when trying to pass as a girl but his original reason for crossdressing has to do with him falling for a straight boy. Osamu Tamura from Bokura no Hentai is this even despite crossdressing.Zelda's teacher in Lotte no Omocha retired because of a scandal he was in involving a young male student.Kakei from What Did You Eat Yesterday? is one of these, in a manga that centers around Food Porn.'' He's a Supreme Chef but other than that he doesn't show any stereotypically gay mannerisms.For example, the main character didn't even realize her parents were gay until her father told her after she came out of the closet to him. Most of the characters of Love My Life.Confirmed to be gay ( and only have eyes for Finland) by the author and without a single effeminate bone in his body. He's very into fighting and very into flirting with Akira.
Basically, their love for each other is the only thing that makes them gay. Isaac then reveals that yes, he knew that was a man (or rather, he doesn't mind the reveal as he likes men more anyway). The characters think he's about to have an Unsettling Gender Reveal when he starts flirting with a male actor who played a female role in a kabuki play.
Subverted in their series Drug & Drop, when Kazahaya comments on Rikuo's "girly" taste for chocolate.Seishirou from Tokyo Babylon and X/1999, falling in love with the protagonist and being masculine and stylish.Lu Sheng from Zegapain, who completely caught both the main character and most of the audience off guard when he openly declared his affection for the main character, Kyo, complete with a hug and a kiss on the cheek.He has a crush on his crewmate Norba Shino but is too shy to confess this. He's an unassuming, technically-inclined teenager who happens to be gay. Yamagi Gilmerton from Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans.He might be bisexual, but The Reveal of his unrequited love for the main character is not revealed until the last few episodes, so there's not much time to investigate the possibility. Guin Sard Lineford from ∀ Gundam, the first character in the entire Gundam franchise with an openly stated same-sex attraction.There's also Morinaga, who is in silent, unrequited love with clueless rabid homophobe Souichi for four years until he finally spills the beans. Kurokawa from Challengers, contrasted with flamboyantly gay American Rick.Everybody, even the readers, is taken by surprise when they find out. Kajiwara in Chiho Saito's Kanon is a textbook case.Masculine≯eminine Gay Couple occurs when his lover is more feminine than him. Manly Gay can overlap with Straight Gay depending on the context, but Manly Gay is more entangled with old stereotypes about gay men. Also compare Armored Closet Gay and The Whitest Black Guy. Arguably a Spear Counterpart to Lipstick Lesbian, though the "Chapstick" type (not particularly butch or femme) mentioned in its description fits more under this trope. May be associated with Have I Mentioned I Am Gay? in cases where the writing isn't nuanced enough to support a gay character sans constant explanations. The trope itself isn't necessarily harmful, but applying it to real people can be. Gay men exhibiting masculine tendencies or preferring masculine hobbies isn't necessarily a problem it's when it is used to vocally differentiate the individual from " those gays" that it becomes an issue. In some cases especially Soap Operas this may be because of the writers changing their minds about an originally heterosexual character.Ī lot of gay people object to the term itself (especially with the term Straight-Acting), arguing that gender presentation and sexual orientation are unrelated, and that the term is unnecessarily divisive.