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Faux Yay

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Faux Yay	comment	Ho Yay is a same-gender relationship that seems to be more than 'just good friends'. Foe Romance Subtext is when two people seem to be more than just mortal enemies. Faux Yay is when a character pretends to be homosexual for some reason, or acts in a homoerotic or romantic way with someone else of the same gender as themselves. One of the most common flavors is when two girls start kissing and acting a little too friendly just for the sake of gratuitous titillation, which in real life is known as "club lesbianism" due to party girls often doing this at the Coolest Club Ever. (Though it's possible for gender inverted examples to occur as well.) When a straight guy pretends to be gay himself, however, it is often done with the purpose of exploiting women's willingness to trust gay men more compared to straight men, allowing him to infiltrate female spaces and approach the opposite sex more easily. This does not count if the homoeroticism is unintentional or the result of a misunderstanding; only if it is a contrived "performance" for some reason. Almost always leads to fleets of shipping. In music, this is referred to as "Stage Gay", while in the sex trade (including pornography) it is known as being "gay for pay". Not to be confused with No Yay. Can overlap with Sorry, I'm Gay, but not necessarily; Sorry, I'm Gay refers specifically to situations wherein the excuse is used and rarely kept up as a facade. A specific subtrope of this is Gay Bravado, wherein characters (usually male) make loaded, homoerotic comments and suggestions to one another with the intention of appearing more macho and secure in their completely heterosexual orientation. Compare Coming Straight Story, when a supposedly gay character genuinely comes out as being attracted towards the opposite sex.
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Faux Yay / int_109f7814	comment	In Sherlock, Sherlock very quickly deduces that Molly's new boyfriend Jim is obviously gay, pointing out several tell-tale signs as well as the fact that he slipped him his number. However, it later turns out that "Jim from IT" was really Moriarty, pretending to be gay in part to be Beneath Suspicion, but mostly because he enjoys trolling him.
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Faux Yay / int_1463a028	comment	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: In the midst of canvassing for suspects, Lake and Finn get Mistaken for Gay. Instead of trying to explain the situation Lake just smiles, puts a hand on Finn's leg and squeezes. In another episode, Benson and Rollins pose as a longterm lesbian couple while investigating a sperm bank.
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Faux Yay / int_199356a3	comment	In Moonflower Murders, the killer, Aiden, is a victim of this. He was at the mercy of Depraved Homosexual Frank after Frank was a client to him as a sex worker. Upon learning that Aiden was getting married to a very rich heiress, Frank blackmailed him into having sex with him on the wedding night. Instead, Aiden killed him, and then killed his wife when she figured it out.
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Faux Yay / int_1adee40d	comment	This is part of Joshua's act in The World Ends with You as he flirts with Neku. Given the whole Composer thing, it's pretty clear that Joshua just wants to make Neku uncomfortable.
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Faux Yay / int_1b2a2313	comment	The French film The Closet features the main character trying to save his job by pretending to be gay and suing for discrimination, involving photoshopping his head onto images of homosexual men being intimate. The entire scheme is concocted by his neighbor a man who was fired from the same company years earlier for actually being gay.
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Faux Yay / int_1b7f85df	comment	In K, Yashiro Isana explaining things he got from Kuroh as being from "his wife", with Kuroh threatening to cut out his tongue.
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Faux Yay / int_1e703d1f	comment	In Gilmore Girls, when Paris and Rory are on Spring Break, they run into old friends Madeline and Louise, who've been stretching out their own Spring Break for a few weeks. They give Paris and Rory a list of rules to get the most out of clubbing, including "When all else fails, make out. With each other." as a quick way of getting attention. Their rivals, identical twins, also figured out this trick. None of them actually kiss on-screen. Paris does kiss Rory on-screen, trying to get "in character" to understand the appeal of Spring Break.
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Faux Yay / int_218f1c6	comment	In Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, the actually gay "Gay" Perry pulls the straight Harry into a passionate kiss to prevent the nearby policemen from realizing that they're hiding a body in a car trunk. Harry is not amused.
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Faux Yay / int_223d4d87	comment	An episode of Donny! sees protagonist Donny Deutsche Mistaken for Gay. For a while, he rolls with it after realizing that it boosts his ratings.
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Faux Yay / int_2275c659	comment	An episode of House has a neighbor assume that House and Wilson, who have just moved into a condo Wilson bought, are gay. This is rather disconcerting to Wilson, who was attempting to hit on her at the time. House camps it up (for example, he orders a huge A Chorus Line poster and opens it excitedly in the hallway when the neighbor is walking by) to screw with Wilson and also as part of a rather convoluted plot to have sex with the pretty neighbor himself.
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Faux Yay / int_22e860f4	comment	A couple of episodes of Psych have Shawn and Gus pretending to be a gay couple as part of the investigation. Although Shawn does seem quite eager to embrace the role...
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Faux Yay / int_2350acad	comment	On Cheers, Norm had a side job as an interior decorator and pretended to be gay in order to keep a client.
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Faux Yay / int_251e67c5	comment	Justice League of America once had a subplot where the second Ice did this towards Fire, as well as reforming herself to look like the original Ice. It turned out that Ice was purposefully trying to make Fire uncomfortable so that Fire would realize that she wasn't the same person as the first Ice, a now deceased heroine who had been Fire's best friend.
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Faux Yay / int_261c8d3f	comment	In an episode of The Simpsons, Moe partners with Smithers to turn Moe's into a gay bar. Moe's new patrons assume he's gay and he doesn't set them straight for fear of losing them as customers. Moe even starts to become the mask because of all the acceptance and adoration of said patrons, but all is back to normal by the end of the episode.
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Faux Yay / int_269f5f7d	comment	Usui from Maid-Sama! has this with Yukimura. He frequently playfully harasses the poor boy with innuendos and such. And that was after stealing his first kiss.
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Faux Yay / int_2abd5315	comment	This is a huge part of the humor of Whose Line Is It Anyway?
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Faux Yay / int_2bb7d2f3	comment	In Nichijou, Mai convinces Yukko that she's starting to develop feelings for her for all of two minutes before revealing that it was just to see if she could get a funny response.
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Faux Yay / int_31731bb9	comment	In Ten Random Characters, Reflet's plan to stop Robin from pairing him up with every girl within a five-mile radius is basically this with Shulk. It doesn't stay that way, though.
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Faux Yay / int_3558eaa2	comment	Community: Britta makes a big show over getting a lesbian friend, and to show how open-minded she is, goes to the Valentine's dance with her. However, the other girl is also straight and thinks Britta is gay, and is also showing off - they up the ante by dancing together and initiating very awkward kissing before they find out the truth about each other. Dean Pelton is asked to pretend to be gay so that the college can earn some good PR for diversity. For Pelton, this also doubles as Flying Under the Gaydar, since he is so far beyond gay that he actually has to tone himself down.
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Faux Yay / int_39f453af	comment	Strange Bedfellows (2004): In the small Australian town of Yackandandah, Vince owns the local cinema and several other businesses, and is having trouble paying his taxes because his ex-wife got everything. The news of a new tax benefit for homosexual couples gives Vince an idea: he and best friend Ralph, a mechanic, can claim to be a couple and receive the benefits.
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Faux Yay / int_3c33a32c	comment	The Day of the Jackal - the eponymous character pretends to be gay to sneak past French security, counting on their being homophobic and thus not bothering to look closely. In the remake The Jackal, the eponymous character needs a safehouse so he picks up a hapless gay guy in a bar. The gay guy later ends up dead.
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Faux Yay / int_3e5de40b	comment	Scrubs: Dr. Cox and Ben play Gay Chicken. The Todd zigzags this, with a possible side of Compensating for Something. In the episode where he "reveals" that he's a gay man who has been deeply closeted, he explains at the end that this was all an act because gay guys get all the chicks. However, in other episodes, he seems to fall anywhere on the spectrum between really secure heterosexual to Extreme Omnisexual, according to the Rule of Funny. While not done intentionally, Turk and J.D. often act in a very intimate way with each other, parodied in the Musical Episode with the song, "Guy Love". This is somewhat ironic as both characters have been shown to be a tiny bit homophobic (an entire episode is devoted to Turk's homophobia in season 3).
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Faux Yay / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files: At one point Harry tries to get inside Thomas's apartment while Thomas is out but gets caught by security. To keep suspicion off him, Harry pretends to be a heartbroken ex-lover who is mad that Thomas isn't taking responsibility for their baby (a dog). It works because Thomas's cover among humans is a Camp Gay hairstylist. Thomas plays it up when he overhears Butters accidentally think that Harry is gay. This irritates the crap out of Harry.
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Faux Yay / int_41e04ebb	comment	Frankie Goes to Hollywood gained notoriety and coverage using the gay vibe. Of the five of them, only Holly Johnson and Paul Rutherford were actually gay.
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Faux Yay / int_43576f5	comment	In Supernatural the two main characters do this to investigate a gated community in "Bugs" (Dean slaps Sam's ass to sell it) and to escape suspicion of anything more than a passion for interior decorating in "A Very Supernatural Christmas." It's only weird because they're actually ... brothers ...
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Faux Yay / int_455e3038	comment	In an episode of King of the Hill, Bill pretends to be gay to get a job at a trendy hair salon, due to their prejudices that straight men can't be good hairstylists. A prejudice that it turns out their customers share. A very attractive female customer expresses her attraction to Bill, saying that it's such a shame he's gay because she would be willing to do all kinds of nasty things with him if he wasn't. He can't resist telling her he's not actually gay, at which point she becomes disgusted that she let a straight man style her hair and outs him to the whole salon, getting him fired.
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Faux Yay / int_47f99838	comment	In one Engrenages episode, Gilou is undercover in a criminal gang, and he and another member of the gang have to spy on a drug deal a rival gangster is doing in a hotel. They book into the room next door, but get into an argument that leads to a physical scuffle in which they both crash into the shared wall. When the suspicious gangster bangs on their door to ask what's going on, they apologetically pretend to be a gay couple who were engaging in a bit of rough sex, causing the homophobic gangster to hurriedly leave.
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Faux Yay / int_481d55f7	comment	Goldust. Just, Goldust. When he was debuted, his gimmick was a way over the top Camp Gay "movie star" who fixated entirely on Razor Ramon, who was the Intercontinental Champion at the time. He played mind games all throughout their feud, selling that he may just be infatuated with the uber-manly Ramon, so far as to start calling him "The Naughty One" (Razor was also known as "The Bad Guy"). All of these antics culminated in their title match, where Goldust freaked Razor out enough to pin him. Afterwards, Goldust tongued his valet (and real life wife) Marlena, showing everyone he was, indeed, straight and played Razor for a sap. It didn't fully go away, the character basically "just acted that way," including outright trying to kiss male competitors mid-match and such. Especially in his later "unstable" phase where he came out in varying costumes as ___Dust, half the time it was something along the lines of semi-cross-dressing MansonDust. After his time in the spotlight faded and he was in and out (pun not intended) of the company, the character has boiled down to "Dustin Runnels in gold-and-black facepaint".
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Faux Yay / int_4b5dbe41	comment	At the climax of the third episode of Clerks: The Animated Series in an extended parody of Outbreak, Dante is pleading with the bomber pilot to not nuke the town and going over how little he's done with his life, and Randall adds that Dante is gay and Dante denies it. But the pilot decides that it is important for Dante to be honest with himself, and says that he will disobey a direct order if Dante admits he's gay. The entire conversation is being broadcast on television, and Dante's parents, friends and ex-girlfriends are all listening, and the pilot for some reason also says Dante's address. Dante says he's gay and the pilot turns around.
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Faux Yay / int_503d5009	comment	Played with in Ayakashi Triangle: When rumors start describing Suzu as promiscuous, Matsuri diverts attentions by pretending to flirt with Reo. Matsuri is female and attracted to girls, but unbeknownst to the school used to be male and still considers himself a guy. Reo, meanwhile, was only pretending to pretend—she is actually bisexual and in love with Matsuri (not that he's noticed), and used the episode as a chance to make a move on him. (Humorously, the ploy not only works, it ends up making everyone think Matsuri seduces girls and guys.)
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Faux Yay / int_52aaae6e	comment	Hope & Faith: Faith puts her sister Hope as a "domestic partner" so she can get an apartment as part of a fundraiser for lesbians.
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Faux Yay / int_531b4419	comment	In Lucky Dog 1, this is a recurring shtick for Gian and Bernardo who love to engage in playful flirting with each other, especially when they have an audience (i.e. Ivan). Depending on whether Bernardo's route is taken or not however, the faux part might change into something else entirely in the second and third parts of the game.
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Faux Yay / int_5423e7d6	comment	In one of the Fearless books, Gaia is being helped by Mary Moss after one of her Power Strain Blackouts, which render her temporarily unable to walk without leaning on someone. A cop comes by to see what they're doing and, mistaking them for lesbians, acts like a homophobic jerk about it. Gaia plays into his impression in order to fuck with him.
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Faux Yay / int_5613760	comment	In one episode of Not Going Out, Lucy thinks she's offended a gay man she fancies, so she gets her flatmate to pretend to be gay so she can show how tolerant she is. This one has an extra layer to it as the guy Lucy thought she'd offended wasn't even gay himself. He'd said that to spare the feelings of a woman who was attracted to him.
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Faux Yay / int_58533a86	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_58533a86	comment	Intimate: Emil, Bruno, and Oskar are cis straight actors who feel like they have to pretend to be queer to get good roles. Emil calls himself non-binary, Bruno pretends to be gay, and Oskar says he is bi. Bruno even convinces his gay friend Leo to play his "boyfriend" at an event; there, Leo protests when Bruno's agent assumes he is also lying about his sexuality.
Faux Yay / int_58533a86	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_58533a86	featureConfidence	1.0
Intimate	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_58533a86
Faux Yay / int_614eb3ac	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_614eb3ac	comment	The girls in Coyote Ugly play-act physical intimacy as a part of their bar-dancing. Later in the film, when Violet thanks Cammi for a good bar-tending tip by jokingly professing "I think I just fell in love with you.", Cammi breezily replies, "Oh, Violet, I'm not a lesbian. I played in the Minors, but never went Pro."
Faux Yay / int_614eb3ac	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_614eb3ac	featureConfidence	1.0
Coyote Ugly	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_614eb3ac
Faux Yay / int_61a399c4	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_61a399c4	comment	The main premise of Faking It is that best friends Karma and Amy pretend to be a lesbian couple after they're "outed" to their classmates and become popular as a result. However, it turns into Not-So-Faux Yay for at least one of them when Amy realizes that she really does have feelings for Karma.
Faux Yay / int_61a399c4	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_61a399c4	featureConfidence	1.0
Faking It	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_61a399c4
Faux Yay / int_62d0e423	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_62d0e423	comment	Young Thug dresses very flamboyantly and uses very flirty language about many of his male collaborators, but also has children with multiple women.
Faux Yay / int_62d0e423	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_62d0e423	featureConfidence	1.0
Young Thug (Music)	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_62d0e423
Faux Yay / int_65447b3d	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_65447b3d	comment	Ethan and Simon of the Sidemen sometimes pair up to bring the power of Emon, which has worked out in some sessions in Grand Theft Auto V and Trivial Pursuit. The other members also occasionally play this up with one another to a lesser extent (possibly greater with JJ).
Faux Yay / int_65447b3d	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_65447b3d	featureConfidence	1.0
Miniminter (Web Video)	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_65447b3d
Faux Yay / int_69df84f7	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_69df84f7	comment	Discussed in Sid Stills' Blues (Three-Quarters in the Bag in Alphabet City). Jason, one of Nathan's old bandmates, wanted to do stage gay to excite the girls in the audience. Since Nathan actually liked men (and loved Jason), he refused. Sid has trouble understanding the concept, since pretending to be gay on stage and being straight off of it is the exact opposite of how it was in the past.
Faux Yay / int_69df84f7	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_69df84f7	featureConfidence	1.0
Sid Stills' Blues (Three-Quarters in the Bag in Alphabet City)	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_69df84f7
Faux Yay / int_7251cf08	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_7251cf08	comment	In I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, Chuck Levine and Larry Valentine are two New York City firefighters who pretend to be a gay couple in order to ensure one of their children can receive healthcare.
Faux Yay / int_7251cf08	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_7251cf08	featureConfidence	1.0
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_7251cf08
Faux Yay / int_755fadab	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_755fadab	comment	Itsuki of Haruhi Suzumiya says he's this in the novels. Whether you believe him is a matter of preference, so far. Supported by alternate reality Koizumi being attracted to Haruhi (which may still apply in the 'real' world) and hanging out with her over it. Buuut shot down a little in that he only gets... flirty... with Kyon when she's not around anyway. Plus the whole 'heart's desire' thing in Snow Mountain Syndrome. No-one actually explains why people saw who they did in Snow Mountain Syndrome. It could just be Yuki making sure they remember the shape. Of course, that would take out all the Shipping. Possibly Itsuki was lying to mess with Kyon. The girls also have fun with each other, but are only really romantically uncomfortable with Kyon. (And not Itsuki.) Also, in the spin-off gag series Haruhi-chan, Kyon's declaration of love to Itsuki is entirely a joke on Kyon's side. Too bad Haruhi took a second to realize it.
Faux Yay / int_755fadab	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_755fadab	featureConfidence	1.0
Haruhi Suzumiya	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_755fadab
Faux Yay / int_7884ec15	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_7884ec15	comment	On Seinfeld, while at Monk's Coffee Shop, Jerry, George, and Elaine realize that the woman in the booth next to theirs is eavesdropping on their conversation, so they decide to mess with her by pretending Jerry and George are a gay couple. Hilarity Ensues when she turns out to be the same woman who is supposed to interview Jerry for a magazine, and publishes an article "outing" the two of them, much to their dismay (Not That There's Anything Wrong with That). George later tries to use the article as an excuse to break up with his Girl of the Week.
Faux Yay / int_7884ec15	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_7884ec15	featureConfidence	1.0
Seinfeld	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_7884ec15
Faux Yay / int_78b8e562	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_78b8e562	comment	On One Life to Live, Dorian Lord pretends to be a lesbian in an attempt to both win a mayoral race with the help of the LGBT community and make her ex-husband David Vickers jealous of her. She even gets engaged to a woman, Amelia Bennett, but on the wedding day David proposes to Dorian, making her leave Amelia at the altar.
Faux Yay / int_78b8e562	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_78b8e562	featureConfidence	1.0
One Life to Live	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_78b8e562
Faux Yay / int_792dfd6e	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_792dfd6e	comment	In the Bollywood movie Dostana, Sameer and Kunal pretend to be a gay couple in order to score an apartment. They both fall for the same girl but neither gets her. The end leaves a little ambiguity as to how much of their act is fakery.
Faux Yay / int_792dfd6e	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_792dfd6e	featureConfidence	1.0
Dostana	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_792dfd6e
Faux Yay / int_7ab0d7a5	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_7ab0d7a5	comment	Oshare band An Cafe are fond of Stage gay, especially the original members (Bou and Miku particularly).
Faux Yay / int_7ab0d7a5	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_7ab0d7a5	featureConfidence	1.0
An Cafe (Music)	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_7ab0d7a5
Faux Yay / int_7ab7da61	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_7ab7da61	comment	On Three's Company, Jack pretends to be gay to be allowed to share an apartment with two female roommates.
Faux Yay / int_7ab7da61	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_7ab7da61	featureConfidence	1.0
Three's Company	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_7ab7da61
Faux Yay / int_7c1e7982	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_7c1e7982	comment	In an episode of Halt and Catch Fire, Donna and Cameron are Mistaken for Gay while searching for a house for Cameron. Donna suggests that they roll with it to see if the realtor will give them a better price, but Cameron argues that Donna's not her type.
Faux Yay / int_7c1e7982	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_7c1e7982	featureConfidence	1.0
Halt and Catch Fire	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_7c1e7982
Faux Yay / int_7dce7773	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_7dce7773	comment	In With Pearl and Ruby Glowing, Chris McLean pretended to be gay in order to fix his negative reputation caused by the Ark staging a fake recruitment campaign and later the original contestants going missing.
Faux Yay / int_7dce7773	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_7dce7773	featureConfidence	1.0
With Pearl and Ruby Glowing (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_7dce7773
Faux Yay / int_7ec0cdab	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_7ec0cdab	comment	The Mighty Boosh: After Dennis the Head Shaman catches Vince with his wife, Vince uses this to avoid getting his head cut off, and has to live with the short-term fallout. They both get over it pretty quickly and both end up with other women by the end of the episode.
Faux Yay / int_7ec0cdab	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_7ec0cdab	featureConfidence	1.0
The Mighty Boosh	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_7ec0cdab
Faux Yay / int_84b3b0f6	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_84b3b0f6	comment	This is the whole plot driving force in the first story arc of Colombian series Los caballeros las prefieren brutas.
Faux Yay / int_84b3b0f6	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_84b3b0f6	featureConfidence	1.0
Los caballeros las prefieren brutas	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_84b3b0f6
Faux Yay / int_853e51bb	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_853e51bb	comment	Also, in the spin-off gag series Haruhi-chan, Kyon's declaration of love to Itsuki is entirely a joke on Kyon's side. Too bad Haruhi took a second to realize it.
Faux Yay / int_853e51bb	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_853e51bb	featureConfidence	1.0
Haruhi-chan (Manga)	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_853e51bb
Faux Yay / int_858624ba	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_858624ba	comment	On Will & Grace Jack joins the New York Gay Men's Chorus and quickly learns that his rival as new star vocalist is a closet straight guy (played by Matt Damon).
Faux Yay / int_858624ba	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_858624ba	featureConfidence	1.0
Will & Grace	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_858624ba
Faux Yay / int_8724a912	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_8724a912	comment	In the sequel series QUILTBAG, Lisa is accused of this when she keeps bringing up her then-current relationship with Stan and is then thrown out of a party for a lesbian sorority. In fact, she's bisexual.
Faux Yay / int_8724a912	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_8724a912	featureConfidence	1.0
QUILTBAG (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_8724a912
Faux Yay / int_87b55b5d	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_87b55b5d	comment	The Onion satirizes the faux Les Yay.
Faux Yay / int_87b55b5d	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_87b55b5d	featureConfidence	1.0
The Onion (Website)	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_87b55b5d
Faux Yay / int_89b7cf47	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_89b7cf47	comment	In Rizzoli & Isles the two main characters pretend to be more than friends to discourage an unwanted suitor of Maura's (he, of course, suggests a threesome). This was so popular with the show's fanbase that the man has since become a recurring character so that Maura and Jane have to pretend to be gay repeatedly.
Faux Yay / int_89b7cf47	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_89b7cf47	featureConfidence	1.0
Rizzoli & Isles	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_89b7cf47
Faux Yay / int_8a6d835c	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_8a6d835c	comment	As the World Turns has Casey pretend to date Luke (who is gay) so that Ameera, the wife of Luke's boyfriend Noah could stay in the country. This was to provide an excuse for Luke to be around Noah without it seeming like Noah's marriage was less than legitimate.
Faux Yay / int_8a6d835c	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_8a6d835c	featureConfidence	1.0
As the World Turns	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_8a6d835c
Faux Yay / int_8c0eb4d2	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_8c0eb4d2	comment	On Fresh Meat, accusations of homophobia make Oregon think she should experiment while at university. While JP eggs her on, Ambiguously Bi Vod points out that "kissing a girl for the benefit of straight guys doesn't count", so she decides to do it somewhere more private.
Faux Yay / int_8c0eb4d2	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_8c0eb4d2	featureConfidence	1.0
Fresh Meat	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_8c0eb4d2
Faux Yay / int_8d814070	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_8d814070	comment	MAS*H: An early episode involves Hawkeye trying to get some leave in Tokyo by telling a visiting psychiatrist that he has a homosexual crush on Major Burns. Another early episode has Hawkeye telling a visiting soldier (played by Leslie Nielsen) that Frank has a crush on him.
Faux Yay / int_8d814070	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_8d814070	featureConfidence	1.0
MAS*H	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_8d814070
Faux Yay / int_8d81bb26	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_8d81bb26	comment	Happens frequently on NCIS between "very special agents" Tony DiNozzo and Timothy McGee.
Faux Yay / int_8d81bb26	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_8d81bb26	featureConfidence	1.0
NCIS	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_8d81bb26
Faux Yay / int_8dfbdff2	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_8dfbdff2	comment	On Law & Order, Detective Lupo has posed as someone soliciting sex from other men at least twice in order to bust a suspect.
Faux Yay / int_8dfbdff2	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_8dfbdff2	featureConfidence	1.0
Law & Order	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_8dfbdff2
Faux Yay / int_94bde696	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_94bde696	comment	Towards the end of her career, when she was reduced to performing in softcore erotic films, Dana Plato (of Diff'rent Strokes fame) tried to resurrect her career by coming out as a lesbian. This being back in 1998, it did not boost her career, and she ended up giving up the pretense soon afterwards when getting engaged to a man.
Faux Yay / int_94bde696	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_94bde696	featureConfidence	1.0
Diff'rent Strokes	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_94bde696
Faux Yay / int_9688ee61	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_9688ee61	comment	Twins Hikaru and Kaoru from Ouran High School Host Club intentionally exaggerate their "brotherly affection" to cater to their twincest-loving Yaoi Fangirl clientele. Played for Drama later on, when the reason supplied for their "unnatural" closeness is an inability to open up to other people.
Faux Yay / int_9688ee61	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_9688ee61	featureConfidence	1.0
Ouran High School Host Club (Manga)	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_9688ee61
Faux Yay / int_971a4dc8	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_971a4dc8	comment	American Horror Story: 1984: Xander is straight, but was forced into doing gay porn after a Depraved Homosexual producer picked him up in the park and got him clean.
Faux Yay / int_971a4dc8	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_971a4dc8	featureConfidence	1.0
American Horror Story: 1984	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_971a4dc8
Faux Yay / int_974f7efb	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_974f7efb	comment	The Drew Carey Show has dipped into this well at least twice. The first time, Drew and Oswald pretended to be a gay couple so that Drew could use his company health insurance to buy a hip replacement for his dog Speedy. The second time, Drew marries his boss Mr. Wick to allow him to stay in the country, in exchange for Mr. Wick giving Drew his old job back. They have to pretend to be gay when someone is sent over to make sure that the marriage is legit. Unfortunately, Drew had also recently joined the Boy Scouts as a scoutmaster, something that has long been a dream of his. They don't allow gay people to join, and Drew's superior has come by to give him an evaluation at the same time. Hilarity Ensues. Apparently Drew and Wick are still married, if the finale to Craig Ferguson's run of The Late Late Show is to be believed. They even share a bed. The yay might not be so faux anymore...
Faux Yay / int_974f7efb	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_974f7efb	featureConfidence	1.0
The Drew Carey Show	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_974f7efb
Faux Yay / int_994af351	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_994af351	comment	Max Galactica hits on Phoenix Wright ("You've stolen one of my hearts!" when Phoenix pulls an Ace of Hearts from his deck) in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. However, the flamboyant camp performer's persona masks a Southern-fried country boy. However, Max seems to prefer Camp Straight to Camp Gay.
Faux Yay / int_994af351	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_994af351	featureConfidence	1.0
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (Visual Novel)	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_994af351
Faux Yay / int_9c698d34	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_9c698d34	comment	Jodie from Loserz (who actually is attracted to women) arrives at a party and announces her intention to hook up with a hot guy... then immediately goes off to look for hot girls to make out with. When her friends point out this apparent contradiction, she tells them that there's no better way to get a guy's attention than two hot girls making out.
Faux Yay / int_9c698d34	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_9c698d34	featureConfidence	1.0
Loserz (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_9c698d34
Faux Yay / int_9e5f03e3	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_9e5f03e3	comment	In one episode of Ally McBeal, Ally and Lin kiss in order to try and put off an Abhorrent Admirer who was into Ally. He sees through the ruse immediately, but gets the hint and backs off, since it's not the first time it's been tried on him.
Faux Yay / int_9e5f03e3	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_9e5f03e3	featureConfidence	1.0
Ally McBeal	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_9e5f03e3
Faux Yay / int_9e9c09c1	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_9e9c09c1	comment	Jarhead: after Staff Sergeant Sykes orders the unit to play a game of football in full hazmat gear for news cameras, the men decide to fuck with him by stripping off and having a dry-hump gay orgy while Sykes is trying to give comments to the news crew.
Faux Yay / int_9e9c09c1	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_9e9c09c1	featureConfidence	1.0
Jarhead	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_9e9c09c1
Faux Yay / int_9ebb8e6f	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_9ebb8e6f	comment	In X-Force, newcomers Phat and Vivisector pretended to be lovers because they felt their teammates were getting a disproportionate amount of media attention. This all gets turned on its head when they both conclude that they really are gay... but not actually attracted to one another. They stay friends, though.
Faux Yay / int_9ebb8e6f	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_9ebb8e6f	featureConfidence	1.0
X-Force (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_9ebb8e6f
Faux Yay / int_a09bae93	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_a09bae93	comment	In Happy, Texas, two criminals on the run are mistaken for a gay couple hired to help with a child beauty pageant and they go along with the misunderstanding to avoid being caught by the police.
Faux Yay / int_a09bae93	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_a09bae93	featureConfidence	1.0
Happy Texas	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_a09bae93
Faux Yay / int_a144cb39	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_a144cb39	comment	An episode of Moral Orel revealed that Stephanie, the owner of the piercing-parlor, ran afoul of this when she was in school, as she and her friend would "practice" kissing. Stephanie's was real, her friend was this.
Faux Yay / int_a144cb39	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_a144cb39	featureConfidence	1.0
Moral Orel	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_a144cb39
Faux Yay / int_a418a6c0	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_a418a6c0	comment	Nelson, the straight protagonist of Let's Go to Prison, is forced into a relationship with Barry - a homosexual gangster and fellow inmate. They eventually form a bond with each other as friends, prompting Nelson to just play along with the â€œrelationshipâ€� for the sake of Barryâ€™s happiness as well as his own safety.
Faux Yay / int_a418a6c0	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_a418a6c0	featureConfidence	1.0
Let's Go to Prison	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_a418a6c0
Faux Yay / int_a4d97e25	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_a4d97e25	comment	Partners features a heterosexual man who moves in with his gay friend and is mistaken for gay. He goes along with it for a chance at a big name case with a man who claims gay discrimination. it turns out to be a double case as the man who claimed discrimination was seen kissing a woman in the final scenes of the movie.
Faux Yay / int_a4d97e25	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_a4d97e25	featureConfidence	1.0
Partners	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_a4d97e25
Faux Yay / int_a5e160e0	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_a5e160e0	comment	One episode of Lucifer (2016) sees Luci going undercover with Pierce as part of a case. Luci is entirely comfortable with it, Pierce is less so.
Faux Yay / int_a5e160e0	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_a5e160e0	featureConfidence	1.0
Lucifer (2016)	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_a5e160e0
Faux Yay / int_aa5b7cc2	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_aa5b7cc2	comment	Oglaf: It appears that Mistress's guard corps is largely straight, but the two guards in this strip clearly don't really care.
Faux Yay / int_aa5b7cc2	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_aa5b7cc2	featureConfidence	1.0
Oglaf (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_aa5b7cc2
Faux Yay / int_ab9ec4d0	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_ab9ec4d0	comment	In an episode of Orphan Black, Felix (gay) and Donnie (straight) impersonate a gay couple to investigate a dodgy fertility clinic. Felix is infuriated when Donnie starts to camp it up a bit too much, both because of the implied homophobia and because he's scared Donnie will blow their cover. The punchline comes when Donnie has to provide a sperm sample and is given gay porn mags to provide "inspiration", forcing him to instead have phone sex with his wife in the cubicle.
Faux Yay / int_ab9ec4d0	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_ab9ec4d0	featureConfidence	1.0
Orphan Black	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_ab9ec4d0
Faux Yay / int_b3693333	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_b3693333	comment	In one of the endings of the movie edition of Clue (a.k.a. Cluedo), one of the characters does this. Mr. Green, who is actually a Reverse Mole planted by the FBI.
Faux Yay / int_b3693333	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_b3693333	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_b3693333
Faux Yay / int_b712435c	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_b712435c	comment	Hardison and Eliot in Leverage: "No -- no, I -- I am with. him."
Faux Yay / int_b712435c	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_b712435c	featureConfidence	1.0
Leverage	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_b712435c
Faux Yay / int_b85dfb9f	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_b85dfb9f	comment	Pixie Trix Comix: Tracy suggests a classic display of club lesbianism to Tess in this strip. Tess is initially bemused, especially because she rather enjoys the kiss (well, in this comic's universe, almost Everyone Is Bi), but then contemplates extending the deception to restore her relationship with her friend Maura, who's recently been heavily distracted by a new lesbian relationship.
Faux Yay / int_b85dfb9f	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_b85dfb9f	featureConfidence	1.0
Pixie Trix Comix (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_b85dfb9f
Faux Yay / int_b8a3a03a	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_b8a3a03a	comment	Peacemaker Kurogane: Saitou, while he may or may not actually be interested in men (who knows with him?), is willing enough to pretend to be for information.
Faux Yay / int_b8a3a03a	featureApplicability	1.0
Faux Yay / int_b8a3a03a	featureConfidence	1.0
Peacemaker Kurogane (Manga)	hasFeature	Faux Yay / int_b8a3a03a
Faux Yay / int_ba741aff	type	Faux Yay
Faux Yay / int_ba741aff	comment	In Plan B, the very straight Bruno pretends to be interested in his ex Laura's reportedly bisexual boyfriend Pablo as part of a convoluted scheme to win her back. Then it becomes not so faux after all when Bruno realizes that he's become genuinely smitten with Pablo. Pablo also does a variant of this trope: he claims to have once slept with another guy, but admits later on that it was just a lie he made up to seem more "modern". Much like the above example, however, it ends up being not so faux after all when Pablo becomes smitten with Bruno too and admits to another friend that even though him being with other men in the past was a lie, some part of it still appealed to him.
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Faux Yay / int_bb5f5f31	comment	Rabbit The entire plot of "Be My Boyfriend" revolves around Rabbit having to pretend to be his client's boyfriend so that the girl he's in love with doesnâ€™t catch on to the fact that he's been faking his homosexuality for the past 10 years to be close to her.
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Faux Yay / int_bd310eaa	comment	El Goonish Shive: In a Q&A session, Lisa theorises that Elliot's 'party form' would do this to put on a show for the guys, despite probably not being a lesbian. This is largely based an event where Lisa (an actual lesbian, or at least bisexual) was on the receiving end of a one-sided version during college, and thought it was for real before having her hopes dashed when her admirer left with a guy she'd attracted via the Faux Yay. Not that she admits to it, of course. Later on in comic it is established that party form Elliot is actually asexual. Played with later. At a party, two girls are quite clearly doing this, but a later strip shows them making out much more comfortably in a secluded area.
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Faux Yay / int_c155f87f	comment	Rumbling Hearts - Takayuki, in Episode 1.
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Faux Yay / int_c35714d6	comment	The first Blackadder series has an episode where Blackadder is due to marry an ugly Spanish princess and, following Baldrick's advice, attempts to get out of it by swishing around in effeminate clothing and makeup. The plan backfires when the princess assumes he's trying to please her by imitating a Spanish man.
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Faux Yay / int_c3e190e5	comment	In the first book of Tales of the City, after losing her job, Mona cynically gets back together with her wealthy ex-girlfriend D'orothea so that she can move in to D'orothea's place for a while and save on rent while she looks for a new job.
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Faux Yay / int_d21eb78a	comment	In Three to Tango, a rich businessman's assumption that his new colleague is gay leads him to ask the man to keep an eye on his mistress. However, the man is not gay—and he begins to fall for the woman himself.
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Faux Yay / int_d2d206b6	comment	American Beauty: Ricky tells his father that he is a male prostitute who services other men to get him riled, after discovering that his father would rather him dead than homosexual.
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Faux Yay / int_d3c4b794	comment	In My Bride is a Mermaid, the class president pretends to be a lesbian who's in love with San after she botches a Love Confession to Nagasumi. When you confess to someone, you really should make sure you're talking to the right person. Nagasumi pretends to be gay for Masa, to avoid letting him regain his lost memories.
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Faux Yay / int_d4377935	comment	Shimazaki in Please Twins! falls somewhere between this trope and being bisexual.
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Faux Yay / int_d6b5cf26	comment	In When Reason Fails, Izuku is straight, but it does not stop him from flirting with Katsuki to get a reaction out of him.
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Faux Yay / int_d98c0a73	comment	Teen Wolf: Stiles tries to do this so that he won't have to explain to his dad (who is also the sheriff) that he and his friend Scott happened to end up in a gay club because they were chasing a creepy, homicidal lizard monster. It doesn't work. Earlier, in season one, Scott is banned from attending the High-School Dance due to his falling grades. When he goes anyway, Coach Finstock sees him and raises hell - so he drags his Straight Gay classmate Danny onto the dance floor to make the coach's outburst look like a homophobic tirade.
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Faux Yay / int_d9e1a051	comment	Ayame Sohma of Fruits Basket is practically the incarnation of this trope: he wears feminine clothes, speaks in a stereotypically "gay" manner, crawls into bed to cuddle with an unwilling Kyo, and constantly exchanges sexually-charged banter with Shigure that implies more than cousinly affection. Despite this, he has a girlfriend and business partner he adores (Mine Kuramae, the local seamstress and Meganekko), and his constant flirting with Shigure turns out to just be a mutual gag they use to bug people (and in Ayame's case, perhaps to discourage the family head from having sex with him).
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Faux Yay / int_db243246	comment	Occurs a bit in Booksmart when Molly gets touchy-feely with her best friend Amy in front of the latter's parents to get them to agree to Amy spending the night before graduation at Molly's house (they're planning to secretly spend the night partying it up at a classmate's house). Amy really is a lesbian, but she and Molly are strictly friends and Molly only shows interest in guys during the film.
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Faux Yay / int_dc368a13	comment	Penny and Aggie: Inverted when, at a party, Cyndi publicly makes out with Daphne, a lesbian who's been established as desperate for a partner, and then turns to tell Marshall that she's essentially straight; Daphne is visibly hurt at this, and later insights into Cyndi's character (including that she most certainly does like girls, Sara in particular) suggest that hurting Daphne was her primary goal. In the sequel series QUILTBAG, Lisa is accused of this when she keeps bringing up her then-current relationship with Stan and is then thrown out of a party for a lesbian sorority. In fact, she's bisexual.
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Faux Yay / int_df7e11cd	comment	Manly Guys Doing Manly Things had a game of "Gay Chicken" between Kratos and Leonidas that lasted over a year. Leonidas eventually surrendered because he needed to go home to his family.
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Faux Yay / int_e036ebd3	comment	Happy Endings: In an episode, straight dude Dave kisses his best friend Max to convince Max's parents that they're dating and save him from being set up with other guys by his mom. Inverted in another episode, Max is mistaken for straight, but keeps up the charade to get awesome concert tickets from his fake girlfriend.
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Faux Yay / int_e05681a1	comment	In Kick-Ass, after it becomes rumored that he's gay, Dave decides to go with it so that his crush will be comfortable around him. Once he reveals he's straight, she's even more enamored with him (unlike the source comic, where she gets extremely pissed off at his manipulating her and she kicks him out).
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Faux Yay / int_e985ec99	comment	On Quantico, Simon Asher pretends to be gay to distract people from other aspects of his life that he'd rather not disclose.
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Faux Yay / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: In one episode, Meg pretends to be a lesbian so that she can be part of her school's Lesbian Alliance Club and finally have friends. Lois, who's bisexual herself, tries to discourage Meg after learning of her farce. She's outed when she can't go through with actually having sex with another girl. The following conversation seems to imply that at least some of the other club members aren't really gay either. Stewie and Brian pretend to be gay in a later episode, a failed attempt to be discharged from the army. Well, Brian was pretending, at least. Stewie was clearly enjoying it a little too much to qualify. That was far from the only time in the show that Stewie hatched a plan that involved making out with Brian.
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Faux Yay / int_ee6d0f2a	comment	Eating Out: In the first movie, Caleb pretends to be gay so that Gwen will set him up with Marc, he can use Marc to get close to Gwen, and Kyle can use Caleb to get close to Marc.
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Faux Yay / int_f0a86c12	comment	A season eight episode of How I Met Your Mother has Robin pretend to be gay when she and Barney are mistaken for a couple.note This is a reference to her dÃ¶ppleganger who is a Butch Lesbian
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Faux Yay / int_f655ed11	comment	The Season 7 Frasier episode "Out With Dad" involved Martin pretending to be homosexual on Valentine's Day, in order to stave off the advances of Frasier's date's mother. This being Frasier, a "Fawlty Towers" Plot ensued.
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Faux Yay / int_f6c05e8e	comment	Friends toys with this trope on occasion. In season two, Joey and Chandler pretend to be a homosexual couple in order to retrieve Ross' baby from the transit authority. Later, Rachel and Monica "kiss for one minute" to win their apartment back from the boys.
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Faux Yay / int_fc6a5beb	comment	Hot in Cleveland: After she accidentally got married to Joy in Canada, Victoria plays it off by pretending to be a lesbian to further her career. They begin acting like a real couple at home with their constant bickering Like an Old Married Couple and act affectionate whenever they aren't arguing. "Beards" has all four women pretending to be gay to go on a cruise ship exclusively for lesbians.
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Faux Yay / int_fdb155c8	comment	In The First Shop of Coffee Prince, Han Kyul hires Eun Chan to pretend to be his boyfriend so that his family will stop trying to set him up with women. What Han Kyul doesn't know is that Eun Chan is actually a girl who he develops real feelings for before he learns her true gender.
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Faux Yay / int_fe30da6	comment	A WKRP in Cincinnati episode had Johnny buying a condo with a surprise windfall. He very soon wants out of the cloying surroundings of 'Gone With The Wind Acres', but signed an ironclad contract. The condo board very quickly lets him go, though, when he affects a very flamboyant manner with his 'partner' Venus.
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Faux Yay / int_ff98eeb3	comment	On Young & Hungry, Gabi pretends to be a lesbian to help Logan get back together with her girlfriend.
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