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The Beard

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The Beard	comment	This trope is under discussion in the Trope Repair Shop. If you're looking for tropes about actual beards, see Facial Hair Index. A character who pretends to be another's heterosexual Significant Other in order to perpetuate the deception that the other is totally, 100% straight. Though the term "beard" is more commonly used to refer to a woman "dating" a gay man note In the context of fake relationships, "beard" has also been used to refer to someone used to cover for an affair, as in Broadway Danny Rose, though the sexuality-related meaning is much more common, the trope can be used for "cover" relationships of LGBT men and women. A man dated by a lesbian to make her appear straight is known as "a frock" in British English. A frock makes a woman appear feminine much as a beard makes a man appear masculine. Gay men who marry The Beard may do this as an elaborate refusal to come out of the closet. They "prove" it to themselves and others that they are not gay because they have a wife (that they never touch) so they most definitely are not leading a gay lifestyle. Other times, it's an open arrangement with the wife in order to abide by social standards. Women who agree to this type of bearding relationship usually socially benefit from being married/in a relationship in another way — for example, she herself might be a lesbian. Occasionally, someone's Beard will have to be someone they're in a Will They or Won't They? situation with. It usually ends up pushing them closer, but gets a Snap Back at the end. Not to Be Confused with Growing the Beard, where a show significantly improves at some point. Subtrope of Fake Relationship. Compare Emergency Impersonation and Sorry, I'm Gay. Girlfriend in Canada is a related trope, when the "beard" doesn't actually exist. When this trope is inverted, see Faux Yay.
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The Beard / int_1073cac2	comment	Dandelion Among Lilies: Mizuho had an older boyfriend in high school because she didn't think being lesbian would go well. It turns out he was cheating on her with another man.
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The Beard / int_114401d2	comment	Pretty Little Liars: Ben was this to Emily. She was never attracted to him, but continues to go out with him (and lets him tell everyone they're having sex, though they aren't), to give her straight bravado credibility.
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The Beard / int_12300cc3	comment	Watchmen: Silk Spectre (the original one, not her daughter) is in a cover up relationship for the closeted Manly Gay Hooded Justice, though this is only mentioned. Laurie was, in part, a beard for Dr. Manhattan. At that point he'd drifted too far into Blue And Orange (a)sexuality.
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The Beard / int_163390dd	comment	Another Period: Victor and Albert are obviously in a relationship with each other, but are married to two of the Bellacourt sisters. They have several kids with their wives, but only have sex when required and aren't romantically in love. Beatrice, Albert's wife, is in love with her brother anyway.
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The Beard / int_16f08e37	comment	One of Us is Lying: Keely willing pretends she's Cooper's girlfriend to cover up that he's gay, as they're best friends.
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The Beard / int_178447cc	comment	MILGRAM: Kazui Mukuhara married a woman for social credibility and the hopes of changing. She died after he told her the truth. It's heavily implied that he's gay because of his constant talk of how he can't be the way he was born and how he has to keep lying. In his second song, "Cat", when he's shown proposing to her, he sings:
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The Beard / int_17e6cb15	comment	Bojack Horseman: Back in the 80's Charlotte was a beard to Herb, a closeted gay man in a time where public knowledge of his sexuality could (and eventually would) destroy his career. Upon realizing this, she left Hollywood.
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The Beard / int_1a21786a	comment	Advice and Trust: According to Word of God Kensuke's two girlfriends originally hooked up with him to hide the fact that they were a couple. However, it eventually developed into a genuine three-way relationship.
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The Beard / int_1a80880b	comment	In Bloody Jack's The Wake Of The Lorelei Lee, the titular ship is taking a group of female convicts to Australia. Since they have a cool captain, the crew of the Lorelei Lee are allowed to get married to the prisoners, if the women agree. Pretty much everyone on board likes this idea, so they all pair off... except for Jacky, who is promised to another, and Higgins, because he's gay. The two of them act as the beard for each other.
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The Beard / int_1b021fcb	comment	In Tokyo Ghoul:Re, Matsuri Washuu is in a loveless Arranged Marriage to keep up appearances as the heir of the illustrious Washuu Clan. He readily admits to finding her boring, and had to be forced to write her regularly while working abroad. It turns out that Matsuri is actually an Armored Closet Gay, and secretly obsessed with his younger subordinate, Kuki Urie. Whether his wife is aware of her role as his Beard or not is unclear, but she admits to having very little interest in her husband's career.
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The Beard / int_1b71921c	comment	Misfile: Rumisiel is Ash's beard, to Ash's eternal annoyance. While it makes Ash's life easier because she doesn't have to deal with guys hitting on him because he is currently transformed into a girl, Rumi's presence has strained Ash's relationship with one of his best friends, netted her Rumi's angelic ex-girlfriend as a psycho-stalker, and forced her to be Rumi's beard for his brother, who Can Not Tell A Lie and therefore isn't allowed to find out the real reason they are together.
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The Beard / int_1da5c84d	comment	Fear Street: In Part One: 1994 Sam's boyfriend is a beard for her, and she's concealed her attraction to Deena for some time.
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The Beard / int_1f95d424	comment	In Vampire Reviews, Maven is unamused by The Batman vs. Dracula naming Dracula's dead wife "Carmilla Karnstein," because she's one of literature's most famous Lesbian Vampires.
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The Beard / int_2192aeb3	comment	Some Fire Emblem fanfiction has half of any popular same-sex pairing marry someone of the opposite sex for the sake of public appearance, while carrying on affairs with or pining away for the other half of the couple. Awakening is particularly fond of this trope where Chrom and a male Avatar are concerned.
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The Beard / int_222da92d	comment	In Claws, Ana outs her brother as gay to her parents. When her parents are okay, Ana snaps they turned on her when she came out. Her mother responds that they "turned" on Ana because she went to jail and "who cares if you're gay? I'm gay! Your father's gay!" As the pair stare, their parents explain that they've been each other's beards for years because of their families. "You really think Lucia is your aunt?"
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The Beard / int_223705be	comment	Dates: Erica has been in relationships with a number of men, but admits it was just to please her family and provide cover, since she's lesbian. Callum is just the latest of the bunch. With him, she resolves not to keep up the charade any further.
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The Beard / int_224c666d	comment	Equal: Many gay men in the early 1950s were married to women. One activist from then says he knew more in this situation than the opposite, since it was good cover. Harry Hay, one of the gay rights' movement's founders, himself was married twice and had children. This was also the case for lesbians, with Lorraine Hansberry focused on.
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The Beard / int_22d87fc9	comment	In That '70s Show, when Hyde is dating Jackie, Jackie convinces Hyde to shave his beard by saying that attractive men don't have beards. She uses a Ken doll as an example.
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The Beard / int_22e004e2	comment	Pan Am: Amanda seemed to be the perfect match for Teddy...until she kisses Maggie on the lips. When Ted eventually finds out, she proposes that they get married anyway so that they can see the people they really want to see while still being married. Ted agonizes over it, but eventually calls it off even when Amanda tries to get Laura, who she correctly deduces has a mutual crush with Ted, to be Ted's mistress. However, then Amanda tells Ted she's pregnant...
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The Beard / int_230ec9cf	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_230ec9cf	comment	Skins: JJ was this for Emily when he was her date to the Love Ball in season 3. Naomi's Anguished Declaration of Love to Emily in season 4 also suggests that she's had a lot of beards, when she says she "screwed guys to make [her feelings for Emily] go away." In the American remake, Tea admits that she lets her parents set her up with the sons of family friends to keep them in the dark about her lesbianism.
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The Beard / int_2324de49	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_2324de49	comment	In My Best Friend's Wedding, Julia Roberts' character asks her (gay) male friend to pretend to be her boyfriend in order to make the titular other male friend jealous so he doesn't marry his fiancÃ©e.
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The Beard / int_25f6f1a0	comment	In Umineko: When They Cry, Kanon pretends to be Jessica's boyfriend during the School Festival in EP2, since her friends have been teasing her about not having a boyfriend (though Jessica does in fact have a crush on Kanon). However, the series heavily implies and later confirms that Kanon and his "sister" Shannon (who's also Jessica's oldest friend) are actually the same person.
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The Beard / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: The time Troy married Selma to resurrect his career in light of rumors of his fish-related "sexual abnormality". And with Marge's other sister, Patty, her onetime relationship with Skinner might've been a retconned form of this, since Patty was eventually revealed to be a lesbian.
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The Beard / int_26438994	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_26438994	comment	Godiva's: Two characters of Indian descent, Ramir and Rajni, are pressured into an Arranged Marriage. While they do like each other, Ramir can't stand the thought of being a married man, and Rajni is a lesbian. She lets Ramir know, and proposes a union of mutual beardship, where they would live together but sleep with other people. Ramir agrees, but has a change of heart and leaves her at the altar.
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The Beard / int_264e0adf	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_264e0adf	comment	In Boy Meets Boy, Tony's parents think Joni and Paul are dating so their gay son can hang out with them while safely not realizing Tony is hanging out with another single gay boy as friends.
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The Beard / int_26b993af	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_26b993af	comment	In Mario (2018), Mario pretends to date his best friend Jenny to dispel rumors that he and Leon are in a relationship. Jenny goes along with it at first, but eventually becomes sick of living a lie, especially since she's starting to get serious with her actual boyfriend Sven, and "dumps" him.
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The Beard / int_2705e27b	comment	Empire: Hakeem and Tiana serve as each other's beards. For Hakeem, Tiana is a "proper" girlfriend close to his age—they're both musicians in their late teens—as opposed to the much older Camilla. For Tiana, Hakeem is a man as opposed to her secret girlfriend. Interestingly, while Hakeem views the relationship as purely a PR move, Tiana genuinely likes him and is not opposed to polyamory, though they would arguably still be each other's beards by presenting as monogamous. Jamal's ex-wife Olivia served as this to make him appear straight when he was 18 and his music career was starting off. The marriage was arranged by Jamal's music executive father Lucious, who disapproves of his son's sexuality. It's implied that divorcing her was Jamal's first step toward making his own way musically.
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The Beard / int_27efa51f	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_27efa51f	comment	All About E: E pretends Matt, her Camp Gay best friend, is her husband when she visits her parents. He has to butch it up significantly so this is plausible.
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The Beard / int_2930f36b	comment	High Class Homos: The plot of the comic revolves around this, with the gay prince and lesbian princess pretending to love each other so they can be with their same-sex lovers in secret.
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The Beard / int_294f3d74	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_294f3d74	comment	Desire & Decorum: Bartholomew Chambers, who is gay, offers the protagonist a marriage of convenience, knowing that she needs a suitable husband as soon as possible, and promises that she can still be with the person she truly loves. She takes up his offer if she pursues Annabelle Parsons.
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The Beard / int_2a929dfc	comment	Better Things: Frankie serves as the fake date to her gay, closeted male friend so that his parents won't find out.
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The Beard / int_2b1bc65a	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_2b1bc65a	comment	In the Mary Russell novel Justice Hall, Marsh and Iris are both gay, and knowingly got married to each other to conform to early-twentieth-century social mores. They were already great friends, and both kept long-term same-sex partners throughout the marriage with the knowledge of many sympathetic friends and relatives. Although they did have sex a couple of times, which ends up as a plot point.
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The Beard / int_2b82b95f	comment	iCarly: In one episode, a minor character asks Carly to be his girlfriend. The dialogue seems to imply this, by making it because his mother doesn't believe him about something regarding girls or a girlfriend.
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The Beard / int_2c328dbb	comment	In Kill the Boy Band, this is the true nature of Rupert P. and Michelle Hornsbury's relationship; he's actually gay and in a relationship with his stylist. He pays little attention to her, including stranding her in New York without a hotel room; this is the last straw for her, and her motive to murder him.
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The Beard / int_2cbb2ce6	comment	In Recovery, Weiss has only dated boys but isn't interested in them. It's for appearances only.
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The Beard / int_2fa80a9d	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_2fa80a9d	comment	Perry Mason (2020): Della (who's a lesbian) pretends to date Burger (a gay man), which serves as cover for them both.
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The Beard / int_3095b3a0	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_3095b3a0	comment	Cyanide and Happiness: A kid comes out of the closet, which leads his mother to reveal she's also gay, and her relationship with the father was this. Then the father also comes out as gay, meaning both parents were unknowingly being each others' Beards, and they both split up, leaving the kid alone.
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The Beard / int_316a2d05	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_316a2d05	comment	The Wedding Banquet: A gay Taiwanese-American landowner marries one of his tenants so that she can get a green card and his parents will stop matchmaking for him. Hilarity Ensues.
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The Beard / int_31b8a37b	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_31b8a37b	comment	The Inheritance Games: Thea and Xander pretended to be in a relationship to hide the fact that Thea was actually dating Rebecca.
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The Beard / int_3388293a	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_3388293a	comment	The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay: Rosa and Sammy get married in 1941 for a double-purpose: Rosa is pregnant by another man, who had then run off (for an unrelated reason), and so needs a husband, and Sammy is secretly gay.
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The Beard / int_34caa86d	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_34caa86d	comment	Motive: The Victim of the Week in "Overboard" is married to a gay entrepreneur, allowing him to continue seeing his boyfriend while maintaining an acceptable facade for his Catholic family, with the wife to be richly rewarded after five years of marriage. Although the cops investigate this angle, it turns out to be a Red Herring that has nothing to do with the murder.
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The Beard / int_38ce5997	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_38ce5997	comment	The Boys (2019): Homelander and Queen Maeve are officially a couple, but in private this isn't the case. Queen Maeve is bisexual, with Homelander being her beard (she isn't shown having genuine attraction toward him).
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The Beard / int_38ce5997	featureConfidence	1.0
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	The Beard / int_38ce5997
The Beard / int_3b0a1f0a	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_3b0a1f0a	comment	Eli Stone: One of the cases the titular character takes involves a Pakistani woman fighting not to be deported because she married a gay man in order to obtain a green card.
The Beard / int_3b0a1f0a	featureApplicability	1.0
The Beard / int_3b0a1f0a	featureConfidence	1.0
Eli Stone	hasFeature	The Beard / int_3b0a1f0a
The Beard / int_3dea1146	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_3dea1146	comment	Penguindrum eventually reveals that the relationship between Tabuki and Yuri is this, and is a mutual setup in order to get Tabuki's first love Momoka back—and it turns out Yuri also loved her and is gay or bisexual.
The Beard / int_3dea1146	featureApplicability	1.0
The Beard / int_3dea1146	featureConfidence	1.0
Penguindrum	hasFeature	The Beard / int_3dea1146
The Beard / int_3e783a31	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_3e783a31	comment	In Sense8, Lito is publicly dating Daniela at the start to hide the fact he is gay. This is because he likes to play tough action heroes in movies in his homeland of Mexico and fears he will be dropped if the public (and, importantly, the film producers) find out. Daniela initially believes they're really dating and discovers the truth when she barges into Lito's apartment and finds his boyfriend. She immediately accepts them and becomes their biggest ally, devising ways for all three to go out in public together.
The Beard / int_3e783a31	featureApplicability	1.0
The Beard / int_3e783a31	featureConfidence	1.0
Sense8	hasFeature	The Beard / int_3e783a31
The Beard / int_3fe0a130	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_3fe0a130	comment	In Ugly Betty, Marc "dumps" Amanda as his beard, and she gets revenge by forcing him to use Betty as a new "girlfriend" to show off to his mother.
The Beard / int_3fe0a130	featureApplicability	1.0
The Beard / int_3fe0a130	featureConfidence	1.0
Ugly Betty	hasFeature	The Beard / int_3fe0a130
The Beard / int_43fb0085	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_43fb0085	comment	Elemental Series (Kemmerer): Quinn becomes a pretend girlfriend for Nick, who is gay.
The Beard / int_43fb0085	featureApplicability	1.0
The Beard / int_43fb0085	featureConfidence	1.0
Elemental Series (Kemmerer)	hasFeature	The Beard / int_43fb0085
The Beard / int_4522fd1	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_4522fd1	comment	Whateley Universe: At Super Hero School Whateley Academy, Bladedancer (once male, now female against his will) has a girlfriend, but accepts a date with Chain Lightning so no one will realize that Bladedancer likes other girls. Only problem? Chain Lightning really likes her, and she finds that she likes him. Fortunately for everyone, her girlfriend, Molly, does too, which lead to them adopting Polyamory and going public with the relationships.
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The Beard / int_4522fd1	featureConfidence	1.0
Whateley Universe	hasFeature	The Beard / int_4522fd1
The Beard / int_455e3038	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_455e3038	comment	King of the Hill, After Dale's wedding, his dad Bug was flirting with an attractive Filipino male caterer when Dale entered the room. He quickly grabbed, in his own words, "the nearest thing in a dress"—which happened to be the bride, Nancy. Twenty years of estrangement followed.
The Beard / int_455e3038	featureApplicability	1.0
The Beard / int_455e3038	featureConfidence	1.0
King of the Hill	hasFeature	The Beard / int_455e3038
The Beard / int_489c93de	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_489c93de	comment	Da Capo: Junichi acts as Mako's beard to help her get rid of an unwanted female admirer. While the motive is genuine, the very first day of acting she's already feeling awkward and begins to treat it more and more as though they were really going out.
The Beard / int_489c93de	featureApplicability	1.0
The Beard / int_489c93de	featureConfidence	1.0
Da Capo (Visual Novel)	hasFeature	The Beard / int_489c93de
The Beard / int_4aa372b9	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_4aa372b9	comment	Something to Talk About: Jo's publicist suggests she defuse the rumors that she's dating Emma through being seen going on a date with a man. She immediately rejects the idea. Jo is not out as a lesbian to the public, but won't go along with any "cover" like this.
The Beard / int_4aa372b9	featureApplicability	1.0
The Beard / int_4aa372b9	featureConfidence	1.0
Something to Talk About	hasFeature	The Beard / int_4aa372b9
The Beard / int_4bf9cc7b	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_4bf9cc7b	comment	In the Emberverse, Rigobert de Stafford and his wife Delia are beards for one another in the neo-medieval (and extremely homophobic) Portland Protective Association. She even refers to him as "my dear beard" in a letter. Thanks to a turkey baster, they have several children together. Meanwhile, Delia is in a monogamous relationship with Lady Tiphaine d'Ath.
The Beard / int_4bf9cc7b	featureApplicability	1.0
The Beard / int_4bf9cc7b	featureConfidence	1.0
Emberverse	hasFeature	The Beard / int_4bf9cc7b
The Beard / int_4e45b093	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_4e45b093	comment	The Big Bang Theory: In "The Transporter Malfunction", Raj goes on a blind date with a girl his parents found for him. Things seem to be going well, until she reveals that she is a lesbian and thinks that since Raj is also gay they should get married so they can get their strict Indian parents off their backs. Raj indignantly says that he is not gay, but considers actually getting married to her because he thinks he will never get married otherwise.
The Beard / int_4e45b093	featureApplicability	1.0
The Beard / int_4e45b093	featureConfidence	1.0
The Big Bang Theory	hasFeature	The Beard / int_4e45b093
The Beard / int_4f067404	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_4f067404	comment	Just Shoot Me!: In "Mayas and Tigers and Deans Oh My" Nina's magician boyfriend sure seems to be gay, and she's happy being his beard because he's very nice, glamorous and rich. However, it turns out that he's actually straight—it's just his persona.
The Beard / int_4f067404	featureApplicability	1.0
The Beard / int_4f067404	featureConfidence	1.0
Just Shoot Me!	hasFeature	The Beard / int_4f067404
The Beard / int_502cbd09	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_502cbd09	comment	Luke Cage: In season 2 it's eventually revealed that Mariah Dillard was this to her late husband Jackson, their marriage having been one of convenience both to allow Jackson's parents to continue deluding themselves that their son wasn't gay, and to pass off Mariah's daughter (actually the result of her rape by her uncle) as his. Mariah does claim that she still loved him, just "in all the ways a straight woman can love a gay man."
The Beard / int_502cbd09	featureApplicability	1.0
The Beard / int_502cbd09	featureConfidence	1.0
Luke Cage (2016)	hasFeature	The Beard / int_502cbd09
The Beard / int_513e22f6	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_513e22f6	comment	Scandinavia and the World: Denmark insists Mexico is America's beard. Sweden reluctantly allows Sister Finland to all but coerce him into a sexual relationship with her in a desperate attempt to hide his homosexual tendencies early on. This was probably the one silver lining he could find in this situation; otherwise he'd probably have gone along with it anyway because she's a knife-wielding maniac who wouldn't take no for an answer and let him walk away alive.
The Beard / int_513e22f6	featureApplicability	1.0
The Beard / int_513e22f6	featureConfidence	1.0
Scandinavia and the World (Webcomic)	hasFeature	The Beard / int_513e22f6
The Beard / int_5171b754	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_5171b754	comment	In the Whispered Words manga, Tomoe suggests that Sumika get a fake boyfriend to help her PR while she's campaigning for student council president, and they settle for Akemiya, who happily goes along with it... and unthinkingly shows up to their date in his crossdressing persona. Or not so unthinkingly, since he knows he's trying to woo a lesbian with a soft spot for cute girls, and also feels far more at ease in the security blanket of crossdressing.
The Beard / int_5171b754	featureApplicability	1.0
The Beard / int_5171b754	featureConfidence	1.0
Whispered Words (Manga)	hasFeature	The Beard / int_5171b754
The Beard / int_52e73a69	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_52e73a69	comment	Uncle Frank: Charlotte, a female friend of Frank's, pretends to be both his and his partner Wally's girlfriend so their families won't know that they're really gay.
The Beard / int_52e73a69	featureApplicability	1.0
The Beard / int_52e73a69	featureConfidence	1.0
Uncle Frank	hasFeature	The Beard / int_52e73a69
The Beard / int_5388685a	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_5388685a	comment	Westeros: An American Musical: A heavily implied side effect of Renly's wedding to Margaery, as he's established quite early to be in a relationship with Margaery's brother Loras.
The Beard / int_5388685a	featureApplicability	1.0
The Beard / int_5388685a	featureConfidence	1.0
Westeros: An American Musical (Theatre)	hasFeature	The Beard / int_5388685a
The Beard / int_55145659	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_55145659	comment	In So I'm a Spider, So What?, Kanata was an Armoured Closet Gay in Japan and also smitten with his classmate Shun. In an attempt to hide his actual interest, he very publicly confessed to the one girl in class certain to turn him down, Wakaba Hiiro. If anyone suspected he was gay, he could use his unrequited love for Wakaba as a beard. Wabaka, aka D, did not like the false confession and decided to "help" Kanata get together with Shun by reincarnating him as a girl.
The Beard / int_55145659	featureApplicability	1.0
The Beard / int_55145659	featureConfidence	1.0
So I'm a Spider, So What?	hasFeature	The Beard / int_55145659
The Beard / int_5ca2f3f9	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_5ca2f3f9	comment	In the Wizards of Waverly Place fic "Secrets Revealed", when Alex casts a truth spell on her best friend Harper to learn the identity of Harper's new crush, concerned that Harper might be falling for Alex's brother Justin again, she is shocked when Harper admits that actually her alleged crush on Justin was just a cover for Harper's real feelings for Alex herself.
The Beard / int_5ca2f3f9	featureApplicability	1.0
The Beard / int_5ca2f3f9	featureConfidence	1.0
Wizards of Waverly Place	hasFeature	The Beard / int_5ca2f3f9
The Beard / int_5e1836b9	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_5e1836b9	comment	Girls Like Magic: Jamie pretends Don, though he's Camp Gay, is her boyfriend when her homophobic parents come over. The pair are naÃ¯ve enough to buy his weak "butch" act.
The Beard / int_5e1836b9	featureApplicability	1.0
The Beard / int_5e1836b9	featureConfidence	1.0
Girls Like Magic	hasFeature	The Beard / int_5e1836b9
The Beard / int_60515a97	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_60515a97	comment	Fans!: Shanna pretends to be a closeted lesbian in high school, and starts calling her boyfriends "beards." Her friends aren't fooled, and sometimes don't realize she's even ''trying'' to be a lesbian. Later, when she's no longer pretending to be closeted, she's still pretending to be a mundane, but she has started watching classic science fiction late at night. Katherine agrees to be Shanna's "beard," this time giving her an excuse to be with the fans she won't really admit she likes.
The Beard / int_60515a97	featureApplicability	1.0
The Beard / int_60515a97	featureConfidence	1.0
Fans! (Webcomic)	hasFeature	The Beard / int_60515a97
The Beard / int_60f02ddb	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_60f02ddb	comment	American Dad!: The Smiths' gay neighbor Terry promises his partner Greg that he'll come out to his domineering father...but gets cold feet at the last minute and instead claims that Stan's wife Francine is his girlfriend, and that Stan and Greg are "the homos from across the street". Terry's dad seems to buy it, despite the obvious signs and Stan not doing a single thing to act gay. In "Haylias," Stan tries to set Hayley up with the obviously-gay son of a senator. He can't see it, but she can and flatly refuses until Stan Mind Controls her into doing it. Unintentional example: Francine joins the Ladybugs, a group of popular, powerful housewives who turn out to all be cheating on their husbands. When Francine finds out, they plan to kill her, since they don't have any scandalous information to blackmail her with. Just then, Francine's friend Linda appears, asks to say goodbye, and kisses Francine. The Ladybugs take this to mean that they are secretly lovers and let them go, accepting this as blackmail material. Francine thinks this was just quick thinking on Linda's part, but it's clear to the audience that this was actually meant to be a Dying Declaration of Love.
The Beard / int_60f02ddb	featureApplicability	1.0
The Beard / int_60f02ddb	featureConfidence	1.0
American Dad!	hasFeature	The Beard / int_60f02ddb
The Beard / int_611b218d	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_611b218d	comment	Call the Midwife's Trixie mentions the fact that she "provided discretionary cover" for a young gay doctor that she knew while training as a nurse, appearing on his arm in public in order to protect his career from any accusations of homosexuality (which was still illegal in Britain at the time).
The Beard / int_611b218d	featureApplicability	1.0
The Beard / int_611b218d	featureConfidence	1.0
Call the Midwife	hasFeature	The Beard / int_611b218d
The Beard / int_66c0fb78	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_66c0fb78	comment	Girls Don't Hit: Unbeknownst to him, Joss married Colin solely for a "normal" cover in her job—she's actually a lesbian.
The Beard / int_66c0fb78	featureApplicability	1.0
The Beard / int_66c0fb78	featureConfidence	1.0
Girls Don't Hit	hasFeature	The Beard / int_66c0fb78
The Beard / int_678356d7	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_678356d7	comment	In Welcome to Room #305: Nina and Hom pretend to be a couple so Sung Jyung doesn't find out Hom is gay. Yoona had boyfriends in high school when she was heavily closeted about her sexuality and forcing herself to be straight. In college she comes to the conclusion she shouldn't lie to herself but she doesn't wanna be gay so she decides to never date, though this train of thought doesn't last too long.
The Beard / int_678356d7	featureApplicability	1.0
The Beard / int_678356d7	featureConfidence	1.0
Welcome to Room #305 (Webcomic)	hasFeature	The Beard / int_678356d7
The Beard / int_6ab79c14	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_6ab79c14	comment	In Bend It Like Beckham, Tony plans to "propose" to Jesminder so that her parents will allow her to attend college and pursue her dreams of playing professional association football in America. Jesminder ultimately refuses, since she does not want to lie to her parents, and immediately explains the ruse behind the proposal. However, in effect she would actually have been his beard, as the film had earlier revealed that Tony was actually gay, which completely surprised Jess.
The Beard / int_6ab79c14	featureApplicability	1.0
The Beard / int_6ab79c14	featureConfidence	1.0
Bend It Like Beckham	hasFeature	The Beard / int_6ab79c14
The Beard / int_6b4d5f1a	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_6b4d5f1a	comment	August In The City: August's husband, starting when they were just dating. Clem also pretends to find a guy attractive, saying they both "put up a front", secretly involved with each other at the same time.
The Beard / int_6b4d5f1a	featureApplicability	1.0
The Beard / int_6b4d5f1a	featureConfidence	1.0
August In The City	hasFeature	The Beard / int_6b4d5f1a
The Beard / int_6c1d09b4	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_6c1d09b4	comment	Fallout 4: Depending on the player's characterization, the spouse of the protagonist could potentially fall into the beard realm. Unlike the past games in the series where the protagonist's origins are only vaguely framed ("Vault Dweller", "Tribal", or "Courier"), Fallout 4 establishes that the protagonist is in a heterosexual marriage and has a son, meaning that anyone wishing to play their character as homosexual would likely rely on this trope. Of course, given that the game takes place in a 2077 that has the social sensibilities of 1950s America, it makes sense that homosexual people might "fake" being straight to avoid ridicule.note Though one scene during the chaos of trying to find cover from the impending bombs is an apparently lesbian couple (and an interracial couple) embracing in their final moments, possibly hinting that not all the social sensibilities of the 50's carried over.
The Beard / int_6c1d09b4	featureApplicability	1.0
The Beard / int_6c1d09b4	featureConfidence	1.0
Fallout 4 (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Beard / int_6c1d09b4
The Beard / int_6c9193a1	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_6c9193a1	comment	The Venture Brothers: An episode has Doctor Zin's wife claim that she thought she was his beard. This was because after many tries to have a son their marriage eventually became sexless until they discovered she was barren. The gay Colonel Gentleman was married to a woman and had a daughter.
The Beard / int_6c9193a1	featureApplicability	1.0
The Beard / int_6c9193a1	featureConfidence	1.0
TheVentureBrothers	hasFeature	The Beard / int_6c9193a1
The Beard / int_6d7c7f1c	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_6d7c7f1c	comment	Something*Positive: Chirag is gay. His parents know that he's gay, but don't know that HE knows that they know. Once his gay siblings came out of the closet his parents started nagging them to settle down and have kids, so whenever they visit he has to convince a female friend to be his fake girlfriend so that he can pretend to still be in the closet, even though he's not. Branwen's dad was gay and married her mom to "keep up appearances" in his professional life. Her mom decided to marry him because she wanted to have children but didn't want a husband who wanted to have sex with her all the time.
The Beard / int_6d7c7f1c	featureApplicability	1.0
The Beard / int_6d7c7f1c	featureConfidence	1.0
Something*Positive (Webcomic)	hasFeature	The Beard / int_6d7c7f1c
The Beard / int_7201b80c	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_7201b80c	comment	In Reinaldo Arenas' memoir Before Night Falls, IngrÃ¡vida FÃ©lix agrees to marry Reinaldo in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to protect him from being arrested and sent to a concentration camp for his homosexuality.
The Beard / int_7201b80c	featureApplicability	1.0
The Beard / int_7201b80c	featureConfidence	1.0
Before Night Falls	hasFeature	The Beard / int_7201b80c
The Beard / int_73d7930f	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In "Rejoined", Jadzia Dax wants an excuse to have dinner with her ex-partner (in a previous host) Lenara Kahn, but as this is against the norms of Trill society she ropes in Julian Bashir to maintain the pretext that she was actually having dinner with him and invited Lenara to join them. Cut to Bashir looking bored as the two happily chat away, ignoring him the whole time until he's called away for a medical emergency. After he leaves, Lenara notes what a good friend he must be to Dax to put up with that. Unfortunately with Bashir gone they start Holding Hands which is seen by another Trill.
The Beard / int_73d7930f	featureApplicability	1.0
The Beard / int_73d7930f	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	hasFeature	The Beard / int_73d7930f
The Beard / int_74276cae	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_74276cae	comment	Noah's Arc: Guy's fiancÃ©e is apparently unwittingly a beard.
The Beard / int_74276cae	featureApplicability	1.0
The Beard / int_74276cae	featureConfidence	1.0
Noah's Arc	hasFeature	The Beard / int_74276cae
The Beard / int_7460586f	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_7460586f	comment	Archer: In "Bloody Ferlin", Camp Gay Ray Gilette is called back to his home in West Virginia by his brother who thinks Ray is straight and married to a woman. Lana Kane volunteers to act as his beard but Ray turns her down as a black woman isn't going to be very welcome in his conservative hometown. Instead he brings Cheryl who's such a Cloud Cuckoolander she thinks they got married for real and she was just blacked out for the ceremony. Ray tries to correct her but Archer tells him it'll probably be easier for everyone if he just lets her believe it.
The Beard / int_7460586f	featureApplicability	1.0
The Beard / int_7460586f	featureConfidence	1.0
Archer	hasFeature	The Beard / int_7460586f
The Beard / int_7517f8d2	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_7517f8d2	comment	Lizzie Borden's Revenge: An unusual example in that the beard is not a person but serves the same function. When Bobby confesses he is gay, an exasperated Dee asks him why he runs a sleazy website that sexualizes women. Bobby explains that it is to stop his mother from finding out. Apparently she is fine with him being a pervert, so long as it is women he is lusting after. Dee then describes his website as being "his beard."
The Beard / int_7517f8d2	featureApplicability	1.0
The Beard / int_7517f8d2	featureConfidence	1.0
Lizzie Borden's Revenge	hasFeature	The Beard / int_7517f8d2
The Beard / int_765f9dcc	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_765f9dcc	comment	In The L Word, back during Dana's Transparent Closet phase, she and her male tennis doubles partner pretended to date each other... a highly ineffective ploy, considering her tendency to absent-mindedly ogle women, and his over the top Camp Gay personality. And in a later season, Jenny and the actress who's playing her in the movie she wrote are in a relationship, but at her agent's insistence, the actress takes a male date to her public appearances.
The Beard / int_765f9dcc	featureApplicability	1.0
The Beard / int_765f9dcc	featureConfidence	1.0
The L Word	hasFeature	The Beard / int_765f9dcc
The Beard / int_7884ec15	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_7884ec15	comment	Seinfeld: In an episode called "The Beard", Elaine becomes the beard for a gay man that she ends up falling for.
The Beard / int_7884ec15	featureApplicability	1.0
The Beard / int_7884ec15	featureConfidence	1.0
Seinfeld	hasFeature	The Beard / int_7884ec15
The Beard / int_79d2ce21	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_79d2ce21	comment	In the Frozen fic Becoming Free Elsa is in a relationship with her smith and later personal guard Freya. In a spinoff oneshot from Free, Freya becomes jealous when she thinks Elsa wants to leave her for a prince. In reality, Prince Ulrich is in a relationship with his "best friend" Lars. They pretend to be Chick Magnets in order to avoid rumors. Lars mentions that he and Ulrich in particular have an arrangement to be the beards, and vice versa, of the palace librarian and the palace butcher's daughter. Ulrich flirting with Elsa, and Lars supposedly flirting with Freya, helps dissuade rumors on the relationship between Elsa and Freya.
The Beard / int_79d2ce21	featureApplicability	1.0
The Beard / int_79d2ce21	featureConfidence	1.0
Becoming Free (Fanfic)	hasFeature	The Beard / int_79d2ce21
The Beard / int_7af252ef	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_7af252ef	comment	For All Mankind. Ellen and Larry become this to each other since their careers would be over if NASA found out that they were gay. Because they hang out together due to their mutual interests most people already assume that they are romantically involved which makes the ruse easier. When the FBI starts to investigate them, they have to get married to maintain their cover.
The Beard / int_7af252ef	featureApplicability	1.0
The Beard / int_7af252ef	featureConfidence	1.0
For All Mankind	hasFeature	The Beard / int_7af252ef
The Beard / int_7b6c4921	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_7b6c4921	comment	Degrassi: Ellie pretended to be Marco's girlfriend during high school to throw off suspicion, until they started developing a co-dependent relationship because of it. Toby was J.T.'s beard to push away Liberty's advances. Alex and Paige invoked Girl on Girl Is Hot to get into a party before they were dating (and before Paige knew she was bi). Jay started out as Manny's beard to annoy her parents. Anya was unknowingly Riley's beard, and then Fiona took the job when she figured out Riley was gay.
The Beard / int_7b6c4921	featureApplicability	1.0
The Beard / int_7b6c4921	featureConfidence	1.0
Degrassi: The Next Generation	hasFeature	The Beard / int_7b6c4921
The Beard / int_7c1e7982	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_7c1e7982	comment	Halt and Catch Fire: In the series finale, Hailey brings home a boy named Kenny, who's clearly gay himself and goes out to the movies with him, later Hailey says that she and Kenny broke up but Donna and Cameron have already figured out that Hailey's a lesbian.
The Beard / int_7c1e7982	featureApplicability	1.0
The Beard / int_7c1e7982	featureConfidence	1.0
Halt and Catch Fire	hasFeature	The Beard / int_7c1e7982
The Beard / int_7ceff43d	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_7ceff43d	comment	Super Powereds: In his backstory, Titan was married with children, and when his orientation was discovered it created a massive scandal that drove him from the public eye for a decade. He returns in Corpies, where he finally decides to get back into things and repair his image.
The Beard / int_7ceff43d	featureApplicability	1.0
The Beard / int_7ceff43d	featureConfidence	1.0
Super Powereds	hasFeature	The Beard / int_7ceff43d
The Beard / int_7d3d9346	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_7d3d9346	comment	Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories has Toshiko Kasen, wife of Yakuza boss Kazuki Kasen, who is trapped in a loveless marriage with a man who "prefers the company of his men". To that end she hires Toni Cipriani to dismantle his organization and eventually kill him. After the deed is finally done Toshiko decides to truly "free herself" by jumping out of a window.
The Beard / int_7d3d9346	featureApplicability	1.0
The Beard / int_7d3d9346	featureConfidence	1.0
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Beard / int_7d3d9346
The Beard / int_7e9d1a6c	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_7e9d1a6c	comment	The Frozen (2013) fanfic The Alphabet Story has Elsa in a Secret Relationship with a woman named Kyra due to same-gender couples being illegal in Arendelle. Kyra eventually becomes engaged to a man named Ludvig, which causes her and Elsa to break up, but Elsa herself refuses to get a beard. The fic ends a Maybe Ever After between Kyra and Elsa.
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The Beard / int_7f640c59	comment	In The Sims 3, two men in Roaring Heights are romantically involved despite one of them being married. Ironically, Mark's wife is also in love with a woman and neither know of their partners sexuality.
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The Beard / int_80890a00	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_80890a00	comment	I Want To Be A Wall: Gakurouta and Yuriko Hanazono are a gay man and an aromantic/asexual woman, respectively, in a lavender marriage to avoid further pressure from their families to settle down.
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The Beard / int_82439e64	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_82439e64	comment	The Office (US): A story arc in Season 7 involves Angela dating a (state) senator whom Oscar believes to be gay. The implication is that the senator is using Angela as a beard. Foolishly, Pam denies that this trope even exists. Oscar is eventually proven correct, and he and the Senator begin an affair.
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The Office (US)	hasFeature	The Beard / int_82439e64
The Beard / int_829f69b4	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_829f69b4	comment	In Afterlife with Archie it turns out Nancy's boyfriend is her beard. She's cheating on him with Ginger; however, Ginger is too worried to come out of the closet.
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The Beard / int_8628a5b3	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_8628a5b3	comment	Blue Is the Warmest Color: ClÃ©mentine has a boyfriend, who she dumps after her attraction to a woman becomes obvious. He didn't realize that he'd been inadvertently in the role, and ClÃ©mentine didn't feel it was right to make him think otherwise any longer.
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The Beard / int_892aa56a	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_892aa56a	comment	Murdoch Mysteries sees beards a few times due to laws against homosexuality in the period: In "'Til Death Do Us Part", the murder victim has a best friend who is gay and yet got married for social reasons. His wife proves to be aware of his feelings but also says he has treated her well by giving her a secure home and a child. The victim himself was also getting married to satisfy family members and inherit half the family business. In "Monsieur Murdoch", the hotel owner and brother-in-law of the missing woman turns out to have married for this reason. His wife tells Murdoch and his French counterpart that she knew what she was getting into when they married. The husband of the victim in "Murdochophobia" admits that both he and his wife were gay and had a mutually beneficial arrangement in their sexless marriage. He says he was also fond of his wife and had no desire to lose his social cover, so he had no reason to want her dead. Lilian Moss is a lesbian and in a relationship with Dr. Emily Grace. Lilian has an arrangement with a gay man and occasionally they act as each other's partners in society. She introduces him to Emily as her uncle, but he later admits he's merely a friend.
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Murdoch Mysteries	hasFeature	The Beard / int_892aa56a
The Beard / int_89bf8ce	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_89bf8ce	comment	30 Rock: James Franco hires Jenna to be his beard for the tabloids, in order to throw off rumors that he's in a relationship with an anime body pillow.
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30 Rock	hasFeature	The Beard / int_89bf8ce
The Beard / int_8bc4ce8e	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_8bc4ce8e	comment	In Bomb Girls, Betty starts dating Ivan after she's nearly outed and fired for being gay.
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Bomb Girls	hasFeature	The Beard / int_8bc4ce8e
The Beard / int_8cfd5671	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_8cfd5671	comment	Class of '09: Hour married a nice man whom she liked to hide her lesbianism, afraid of coming out to her parents. She expresses guilt about having wasted years of his life when their marriage ends.
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The Beard / int_8d7f29ec	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_8d7f29ec	comment	Glee: Quinn points out this is what people are going to think she is after her boyfriend Finn joins Glee Club. Kurt attempts to be more like his father (i.e. straight) and dates Brittany. Sam dating Santana. Later, when she learns that Karofsky is as deep in the closet as her, she blackmails him into going to the prom with her as part of a scheme to get Kurt back and increase her standing with the rest of the club (specifically Brittany). In fact, all of Santana's heterosexual relationships—romantic and sexual (and there were many in the first two seasons), can be considered this, seeing how she defines herself (after coming out) as strictly into women, and expresses suspicion of bisexuals.
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Glee	hasFeature	The Beard / int_8d7f29ec
The Beard / int_8d814070	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_8d814070	comment	In at least a few MAS*H fics BJ and Peg's marriage is presented as a lavender marriage to beard for each other. The main point, of course, is to ship BJ with Hawkeye without the guilt or fallout of BJ cheating on Peg (and usually Peg is given a nice lady love original character of her own).
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MAS*H	hasFeature	The Beard / int_8d814070
The Beard / int_8d85e2c5	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_8d85e2c5	comment	Vera: In "Broken Promise", the Victim of the Week is secretly in a relationship with a Jerk Jock. The victim's best friend is the jock's girlfriend, and is secretly being used as a beard to hide the relationship.
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The Beard / int_8dba224e	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_8dba224e	comment	The Cleveland Show: Cleveland's boss Mr. Waterman occupies a Transparent Closet but has a wife. In the first episode where she appeared, Mr. Waterman is putting together a Santa costume and calls for his beard, at which point Mrs. Waterman appears...holding his Santa beard.
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The Cleveland Show	hasFeature	The Beard / int_8dba224e
The Beard / int_8f48a560	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_8f48a560	comment	On The Cool Kids Sid married a woman but came out to his wife in 1999 because he was afraid he'd die during Y2K.
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The Cool Kids	hasFeature	The Beard / int_8f48a560
The Beard / int_8f668221	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_8f668221	comment	Friendly Hostility: Leslie Rudd dating Kitty might have started out as her being his beard, but it is a valid ship in its own right per Word of God, and Leslie/Kittie/Deringer can be read as a canon ship by the end of the series if the reader wants it to be.
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Friendly Hostility (Webcomic)	hasFeature	The Beard / int_8f668221
The Beard / int_90032631	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_90032631	comment	Orange Is the New Black: Piscatella mentions that he brought a beard to his senior prom when he makes it clear to Chapman that flirting with him won't get her anything, since he's actually gay.
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Orange Is the New Black	hasFeature	The Beard / int_90032631
The Beard / int_94de6dd8	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_94de6dd8	comment	The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries: In book 4, this turns out to be part of the motive for murder — Vera Cassity's husband Morty is having an affair with Hank Beauchamp. While Hank is openly gay, Morty isn't, so Hank's sister Judianne "Sissy" Beauchamp — whom Stewart Delacorte is pretty sure is also gay — pretends to be the one that Morty's with. She eventually kills Vera so Hank and Morty can be together openly, since the Beauchamps are broke and Morty can't divorce his wife like he wants without being taken to the cleaners by her.
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries	hasFeature	The Beard / int_94de6dd8
The Beard / int_9776174	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_9776174	comment	Ex Machina: Discussed. When Mayor Hundred announces his support for gay marriage the night after a date, she assumes he's just using her as a beard. At the end of the arc he attempts to mend fences, and admits to Suzanne he might have had some ulterior motives for going out with her. Hundred remains effectively Married to the Job and dismisses questions about his sexuality as unimportant.
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Ex Machina (Comic Book)	hasFeature	The Beard / int_9776174
The Beard / int_98c961e2	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_98c961e2	comment	Helluva Boss: Moxxie's father Crimson accuses Millie of being a beard as he just thinks Moxxie is gay. Moxxie then clarifies to his father that heâ€™s bisexual.
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Helluva Boss (Web Animation)	hasFeature	The Beard / int_98c961e2
The Beard / int_9b1636a1	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_9b1636a1	comment	The Imitation Game: Joan Clarke is content to serve this role to Alan Turing, and she is comfortable with the idea that their future marriage will be based on friendship instead of romance.
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The Imitation Game	hasFeature	The Beard / int_9b1636a1
The Beard / int_9b6c0c44	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_9b6c0c44	comment	The Comfortable Courtesan: Clorinda, the main character, is supposedly the mistress of Gervase, Viscount Raxdell. They are extremely close friends, but he's gay and she's acting as his public signifier of heterosexuality. Lady Zellen is unhappy that her husband hasn't slept with her since their second son was born.note A traditional practice in the British aristocracy when marriages were arranged rather than due to mutual attraction, the traditional phrase was that one should make sure to create "an heir and a spare" Clorinda persuades him to confess to her that he's gay, and then he finds a boyfriend for her. The lesbian Lady Jane marries Admiral Knighton because her sexual relations with an actress were being gossipped about in society, and because he needed someone knowledgable about farming to manage an estate he inherited, and also because All Lesbians Want Kids. She does subsequently admit to Clorinda, however, that she found the necessary activity for conception much more enjoyable than she expected.
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The Comfortable Courtesan	hasFeature	The Beard / int_9b6c0c44
The Beard / int_9d47a2a2	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire: Margaery Tyrell is The Beard for Renly Baratheon, who is more interested in her brother Loras. It's something of an open secret that Renly and Loras are lovers, but Renly's supporters don't seem to mind as long as he's not too gay to father an heir on Margaery. The ruse is so transparent that no one finds it surprising or worthy of suspicion when Margaery (truthfully, so far as the reader can tell) claims that their marriage was never consummated.
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A Song of Ice and Fire	hasFeature	The Beard / int_9d47a2a2
The Beard / int_9e03ce2e	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_9e03ce2e	comment	The Guard: Gabriella. She's aware Aidan is gay and that their marriage was just cover for him while allowing her to stay in Ireland. It doesn't mean she doesn't care about him.
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The Guard	hasFeature	The Beard / int_9e03ce2e
The Beard / int_9eddd8dd	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_9eddd8dd	comment	Alfie (2010): Vera Tolman, nee Brooker, ended up as one when she and her friend Derek had sex (on his part mainly to figure out what the big deal was) before she set out to see the world, only to realize she had fallen pregnant and return home rather than risk wandering the about alone in her condition. Derek promptly did the Right Thing over the objections of his family ("She's a Brooker!") and despite his having entered into a clandestine relationship with a fellow named Bernard in the interim (which Vera discovered the hard way after the fact). So, the tale begins with a bitter, resentful, rage-filled, and yes frustrated middle-aged deuteragonist wondering why her twenty-one-year-old daughter is so distracted over the recently arrived caravan.
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Alfie (2010) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	The Beard / int_9eddd8dd
The Beard / int_9fbda83	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_9fbda83	comment	Breaking the Girls: Nina pretended she's straight and married David since it would get her his money after he died. She complains of how disgusting it was to her having sex with him.
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Breaking the Girls	hasFeature	The Beard / int_9fbda83
The Beard / int_a1865c1f	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_a1865c1f	comment	In Rip Her to Shreds, Regina tries dating boys while she lies to herself about being straight.
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Rip Her To Shreds (Fanfic)	hasFeature	The Beard / int_a1865c1f
The Beard / int_a23b15c8	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_a23b15c8	comment	In Rain, Gavin is a beard for Maria who is a lesbian.
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Rain (2010) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	The Beard / int_a23b15c8
The Beard / int_a4a6b86a	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_a4a6b86a	comment	Code Geass: Implied to be why Prince Schneizel keeps appearing with Nina Einstein in public—as his aide and brother drop very big hints about his true sexuality. Of course, Nina herself is desperately in love with the prince's dead little sister... Possibly why Lloyd got involved with an arranged marriage with Milly. Although he's likely asexual as opposed to gay.
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Code Geass	hasFeature	The Beard / int_a4a6b86a
The Beard / int_a6284736	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_a6284736	comment	In Olga Dies Dreaming, after being elected to City Council, Prieto is approached by the Selby brothers, economic developers who let Prieto know they know he is in the closet that his neighborhood would not want to be represented by a gay man. Afterwards, he is desperate for a cover and for distance between his real self and his public life. He marries a nice woman from the neighborhood and becomes a father. It doesn't work too well as a cover with his family.
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Olga Dies Dreaming	hasFeature	The Beard / int_a6284736
The Beard / int_a6db75b2	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_a6db75b2	comment	In Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles, Snagglepuss is married to Lila Lion so that the public will not suspect that he's actually gay. While she initially accepts this role, she divorces him in the final issue.
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Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles (Comic Book)	hasFeature	The Beard / int_a6db75b2
The Beard / int_a812c87	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_a812c87	comment	Naked Came the Stranger: Willoughby Martin has had sex with men who have married to fool the straight world, but he finds them unsatisfying. With their phony marriages and secret lives, he finds them more pitiable than sexy.
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The Beard / int_a817bc3b	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_a817bc3b	comment	Why Women Kill: Simone learns she was unknowingly serving as a beard to her husband, Karl, who's a closeted gay man.
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Why Women Kill	hasFeature	The Beard / int_a817bc3b
The Beard / int_a869f91d	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_a869f91d	comment	The Most Popular Girls in School: In the second season, Than dates Brittnay in an attempt to prove he's straight. The two actually have a decent amount in common and he does make an effort to be a good boyfriend, but it's very clear he isn't interested in her sexually, despite his claims to the contrary. She eventually figures out what's going on and breaks up with him.
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The Most Popular Girls in School (Web Animation)	hasFeature	The Beard / int_a869f91d
The Beard / int_aa4ce711	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_aa4ce711	comment	Bridgerton: A secondary character is a gay nobleman who is married to a woman. She's aware of his sexuality and that he's in love with another man, but goes along with it for the freedom and status that being a married woman grants her, and because he doesn't mind her having lovers of her own. She has a brief affair with Beckett, who is massively uncomfortable when her husband tries to have a freindly chat with him about it.
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Bridgerton	hasFeature	The Beard / int_aa4ce711
The Beard / int_b083559a	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_b083559a	comment	Batwoman (2019): Tyler was unknowingly a beard for his wife Sophie. He later realizes she never loved him. Sophie later admits it herself. It seems that she was trying to convince herself of being straight through marrying him (though she does show fondness for Tyler).
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Batwoman (2019)	hasFeature	The Beard / int_b083559a
The Beard / int_b30ae4db	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: Shows up much more blatantly than the vague, scattered hints in the books. Margaery Tyrell is King Renly Baratheon's beard; he made her his Queen after he allies himself with House Tyrell. However, he is romantically involved with her brother Loras, and the three are perfectly happy with this arrangement.note Reportedly there were some who thought the show writers had invented this plot, but Word of God says that it was supposed to be obvious in the novel. The trope is later Deconstructed long after Renly's death when Margaery is questioned on why they never had children; she dances around the fact that his gayness made him unable to have sex with her.
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Game of Thrones	hasFeature	The Beard / int_b30ae4db
The Beard / int_b35fa2bb	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_b35fa2bb	comment	Acapulco: Maximo pretends to date Roberta so no one will figure out that Roberta is actually his sister Sara's girlfriend. This causes some shenanigans when he ropes Memo in to bring Sara as his "date" to the Las Colinas holiday party while Maximo brings Roberta, intending to give them a night out...only for Don Pablo to bring their mother to the party.
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The Beard / int_b481533	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_b481533	comment	The Hainish story "Mountain Ways". People on the planet O have four-person marriages between moieties where everyone is expected to be bisexual. A lesbian gets the idea to disguise her lover as a man to complete a marriage, and eventually their partners come out as straight, making a marriage that's effectively two pairings with all four acting as beards for the relationships they're supposed to have but don't want to.
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Hainish	hasFeature	The Beard / int_b481533
The Beard / int_b64df7dd	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_b64df7dd	comment	Do You Believe in Fairies?: Kathy and Owen are each other's beards. It started out unintentionally. They're Childhood Friends but everyone in town saw something more, unaware that they're both gay. The duo just let everyone see them as a couple. This lasted until one day Kathy got upset about Owen's gayngst-driven alcoholism and finally revealed to Renee that she has never been Owen's girlfriend.
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Do You Believe in Fairies? (Fanfic)	hasFeature	The Beard / int_b64df7dd
The Beard / int_b7287a5	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_b7287a5	comment	You Me Her: Discussed due to people who know them thinking Jack has been this for Emma all along once they enter a throuple with Izzy. Jack also worries, though it turns out she's bisexual like she had said and this isn't the case.
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The Beard / int_b7b888f7	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_b7b888f7	comment	At the start of the Dexter series of novels, he explicitly refers to Rita as a beard and a disguise used to make him appear more ordinary and normal. Of course, in his case, being gay would be a lot more socially acceptable than the real story.
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Dexter	hasFeature	The Beard / int_b7b888f7
The Beard / int_b92ce393	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_b92ce393	comment	Good Behaviour: Played with in that Aroon seems to believe that Richard truly does love her, but their relationship only develops when Aroon's father begins to get suspicious of Richard's close relationship with Hubert.
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Good Behaviour	hasFeature	The Beard / int_b92ce393
The Beard / int_b9d45d45	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_b9d45d45	comment	In Easy A Olive makes up a relatively innocent and tame story of how she lost her virginity over the past weekend, but the rumor mill spreads it so far and blows it so wildly out of proportion that she gains a reputation as a slut almost overnight. When talking to Brandon, a friend dealing with torment and bullying due to his sexuality, she mentions how drastically a person's social status can change after a single juicy story and she agrees to pretend to sleep with him in order to convince the school he is straight. This is amazingly successful (For him, anyway) and soon many other unpopular boys are coming to her for help looking cool.
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The Beard / int_bb3fde3d	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_bb3fde3d	comment	In the Danny Phantom oneshot A Shallow End, Paulina and Dash are each other's beards. They're both gay but pretend not to be. Paulina thinks that Dash will come out of the closet eventually, but she thinks it's too dangerous for herself.
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The Beard / int_bd310eaa	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_bd310eaa	comment	El Goonish Shive has Conversational Troping in a non-canon NP strip, in which Susan goes to a video-game barber to get facial hair:
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The Beard / int_c02ce5b4	comment	House of the Dragon: Rhaenyra tries to make the best of her Arranged Marriage to Laenor by telling him (in medieval-ish metaphor) that she knows he's gay and that they can seek their own pleasures as long as they fulfill their marital duties. He agrees and the two convincingly play the part of a happily betrothed couple until their wedding feast violently goes sideways.
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The Beard / int_c08cda65	comment	The Alarmaverse: In Beauty Will Tear Us Apart, Ditzy preemptively tries to fend off Trixie's unrequited affection by claiming that Time Turner is her boyfriend.
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The Beard / int_c0e06569	comment	Princess (Laburnum Steelfang): Marlene assumes Julien was using her for cover when he comes out as a Transgender man, and is very, very angry.
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The Beard / int_c0e20440	comment	Tarot Mysteries: After meeting Clarice's boyfriend, Alanis figures out that he's gay and she's serving as his beard for his parents sake. Turns out that she's a lesbian, and he's also serving as her beard.
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The Beard / int_c33d6e1f	comment	Domino Lady: Ellen's Secret-Keeper Lulu Chambers is married to gay movie director who is in a relationship with his favourite leading man. Lulu gets a rich and glamorous lifestyle, while her husband gets cover for his sexuality, which would be professional doom in the 1930s if made public.
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The Beard / int_c34b63af	comment	Red, White & Royal Blue: First Daughter June goes on a couple public dates with Prince Henry to cover up the fact that he's actually dating her brother, Alex. Similarly, Alex and his best friend Nora go on a date to distract people—though they actually did have a fling years before the book started. It didn't work out, but the press still ships them in their Tabloid Melodrama, and they often encouraged the rumors they were together even before Henry is in the picture, purely for the comedy.
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The Beard / int_c41a44e0	comment	Tattletales was a 70s/early 80s gameshow featuring famous married couples. As well as on occasion Charles Nelson Reilly and Dick Sargent with "their gals" Marcia Wallace and Fannie Flagg. Host Bert Convy would just substitute the words "your gal" for "your wife" when reading the questions.
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The Beard / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: "Time Crash": The Doctor discusses the latest appearance of the Master with himself.
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The Beard / int_c71468b8	comment	Ang Huling El Bimbo: Anthony marries a woman at the behest of his homophobic father, leading to an unhappy and unfulfilling marriage.
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The Beard / int_c715f539	comment	Outlander: Played less idyllically with Lord John and Bree from the later books. She's pregnant. He's gay, and a good many years her senior, as well as close friends with her dad. Considering the time period, it's not the unhappiest of matches—they get on pretty well after awhile—but she doesn't seem to see him as much more than a human shield to cover up being vastly preggo. (Her way of persuading him to declare their engagement? Threaten to publicly out him. Which would mean public disgrace and death. Nobody said she wasn't a bitch.) Naturally, this doesn't last. She gets her man, and... well, he doesn't die. And that's good. Right? Don't worry. She gets... better-ish.
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The Beard / int_c8a8c3d9	comment	Queer Duck: The Movie: A major part of the plot is that the titular character meets and bonds with an aging actress named Lola Buzzard. Lola eventually asks for Queer Duck to marry her. When Queer Duck points out that he isn't sure the marriage would work since he's gay, Lola responds that she doesn't mind because a lot of her previous husbands were gay.
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The Beard / int_c8b88a99	comment	Just the Way You Are: At the beginning, Susan is engaged to her gay friend Frank. They break up a few weeks before the wedding when he finds her with another man and they realize they won't be able to satisfy each other.
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The Beard / int_ca019eee	comment	On The Hour, this is the only reason Ruth and Adam get engaged—so he can hide his homosexuality, which in the 1950s would have been a real problem for his career. He was actually told to marry her by his lover, who happens to be Angus McCain.
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The Beard / int_cc2a7289	comment	The League of Gentlemen: Herr Lipp is married to a woman, but the Transparent Closet he's in makes this a moot point.
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The Beard / int_ce51981d	comment	Workaholics: In one episode, Adam meets a beautiful young woman who asks him to a wedding as her date. It all seems too good to be true and at the end Adam begins to believe she may be his true love, but when they get to the wedding, it turns out the whole relationship was a sham. The girl was a lesbian, and wanted to make a point to her disapproving father by dating the schlubbiest, most obnoxious Manchild she could find, so that the prospect of going out with another girl would seem much better by comparison.
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The Beard / int_d2e2ca76	comment	The George Lopez Show: George and Angie discover that Carmen's boyfriend Noah is gay and is using her as a cover, but it turns out that Carmen is using him as her cover so that she can see Zach Powers behind their backs.
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The Beard / int_d3bc03fe	comment	One Tree Hill: In a later episode, Alex agrees to pose of Josh's girlfriend so he won't have his career ruined by being outed as gay, and he agrees to pose as her boyfriend so the media will pipe down about the sex tape of them that was released, which could ruin her career.
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The Beard / int_d48967ea	comment	Out at the Wedding is about a woman who pretends to be a lesbian because she's afraid her family will be racist towards her black boyfriend. Her recently married sister happens to fall for her pretend-girlfriend. It turns out her husband was a Beard and she was in denial about being gay.
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The Beard / int_d64167ad	comment	In Sfeer Theory, Camp Gay Luca is married and has a son. Considering the time period, it's rather expected. Also an Arranged Marriage.
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The Beard / int_d80d2982	comment	In Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Titus agrees to be a sham boyfriend for an apartment renovation show host whose brand relies on his viewers believing he's gay. This rare inversion is referred to as an "Eyebrows".
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The Beard / int_d82fe290	comment	The Han Solo Trilogy: As part of her work with the Corellian Resistance, Bria serves as an anthroposexual beard to Moff Sarn Shild (under a false name), since his sexual tastes aren't for human females (it is implied he likes members of other species, which the speciesist Empire he serves wouldn't tolerate).
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The Beard / int_dc368a13	comment	Fred and Daphne from Penny and Aggie, for one another, at least initially.
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The Beard / int_de63b4d2	comment	The Good Asian: When rich heiress Victoria Carroway first began hanging out in San Francisco's Chinatown, attending some of the local clubs and such, she became friends with Chinatown's golden boy and Crusading Lawyer Terrence Chang. There was an attempt on her part at a Relationship Upgrade, but Chang is gay. The two remained friends and business partners, however, with Chang helping to direct Victoria and her family's investments in Chinatown and she also bankrolled his legal efforts to win greater civil rights and recognition for Chinese-Americans. As a result they were seen so often together that it was rumored they were together, and a man with a grudge tried to get proof so he could Blackmail them, as the story is set in the 1930s and an interracial relationship between two people of their social standing would be a scandal. The blackmailer soon gets pictures of Chang with another man instead, and Victoria is one of the people who pays to help keep him quiet.
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The Beard / int_e0cda557	comment	Badhaai Do: Shardul (gay) and Sumi (lesbian) enter into a mutual bearding lavender marriage to relieve societal pressures to get married.
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The Beard / int_e0e18eca	comment	Decades of Darkness: Lipstick Lesbian Julia Gordon has a husband who's gay himself. They even have a child together (it's set in the 19th century).
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The Beard / int_e951212	comment	Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues: Jae's a lesbian, but heavily in the closet. She briefly dated her fellow gang member Devin so that people would stop asking about her lack of love life. One flashforward shows Benedict (established as gay) in a relationship with a woman. When Zia comments on it, assuming that he's bi, he clarifies that their romance is a front to throw pursuers off his track.
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The Beard / int_e9af8edf	comment	In Captain Freedom, Tzadik's efforts to settle down and marry his on-again-off-again girlfriend Kaeko fall apart when she finds out that he's already married. He insists that it was only a beard marriage for the sake of a lesbian acquaintance.
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The Beard / int_ead719f2	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_ead719f2	comment	There's a scene in the graphic novel Shortcomings where Ben, the main character, has to act as a beard for his gay Korean friend Alice when they go meet her parents at church. he mentions that her family might not like the Japanese, but seeing her with a Japanese boy is better than seeing her with a Korean girl.
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The Beard / int_f317fe12	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_f317fe12	comment	In You Built This House, Apple tries to use Daring as a beard, even after she's Forced Out of the Closet, because she still wants to live up to how Snow White "should be". Her roommate Raven calls her out on this. Eventually, Daring and Apple come to the agreement that it's uncomfortable for both of them.
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The Beard / int_f61ea51b	comment	Interview with the Vampire (2022): Before meeting his Closet Key Lestat de Lioncourt in "In Throes of Increasing Wonder...", Louis de Pointe du Lac tries to maintain his straight credentials by seeing a prostitute named Lily.
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The Beard / int_f655ed11	comment	Frasier: There was a Running Gag throughout the series about Deb, who never appeared on screen, but was the very camp Gil Chesterton's very butch wife.
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The Beard / int_f6c05e8e	comment	Friends: Phoebe married a gay ice dancer so he could stay in the country... though it later turned out he was actually straight or at least bi.
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The Beard / int_f6eed39	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_f6eed39	comment	On The Sopranos, Marie Spatafore is this to Vito—although she has no idea (and goes deeply in denial when she finds out). One could probably add Vito's "goomah", aka mistress. With both women, it's clear that Vito paid them no sexual interest whatever. The Mafia being a pretty homophobic institution (albeit one with a few pockets of "who gives a shit as long as the guy's a good earner"), Vito had to hide his sexuality.
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The Beard / int_f6fd2ee	comment	Bottoms: Parodied. Josie, panicking about the prospect of not losing her virginity to a girl, wails about sleeping with their gay classmate Matthieu out of desperation, getting pregnant, and the two of them needing to enter an unhappy double-bearding marriage and moving to a convent to save face.
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The Beard / int_fa7099e2	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_fa7099e2	comment	Across the Universe (2007): Prudence, who is established as a lesbian, has a boyfriend however in New York City, whom she then leaves as he's gotten abusive before accepting her own sexuality with help from friends.
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The Beard / int_fae17379	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_fae17379	comment	Loving Annabelle: Ms. Bradley's boyfriend may be a beard, though her sexuality (lesbian or bisexual) is unclear.
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The Beard / int_fba5cfda	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_fba5cfda	comment	The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali: Rukhsana and Sohail, a man whom she's matched with, both decide to temporarily be this for each other. She's a lesbian, while he's gay, which their traditional families would never accept, so they agree to be engaged then run away to the US on the eve of the wedding so it's unexpected.
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The Beard / int_fcacaa36	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_fcacaa36	comment	The Man in the High Castle: Thelma and Wayne Harris appear to be using each other this way (assuming both aren't bisexual), since they're shown in same-sex relationships on the side.
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The Beard / int_fd48231e	type	The Beard
The Beard / int_fd48231e	comment	Fellow Travelers: In 1950s America, many gays and lesbians maintain straight relationships to cover themselves, including marriages. Hawkins Fuller marries Lucy Smith to make her his (unwitting) beard (though she learns soon enough).
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G.B.F. / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Georgy Girl / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Girls Like Magic / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Hail, Caesar! / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Happiest Season / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Imagine Me & You / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Isi & Ossi / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Just Go With It / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Licorice Pizza / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Making Love / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Mario (2018) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
My Best Friend's Wedding / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Out at the Wedding / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Philomena / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Pouic-Pouic / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Pride (2014) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Primeval / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
RocknRolla / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Rocketman (2019) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Showgirls / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Stardust / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Sweet Smell of Success / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Telstar: The Joe Meek Story / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The Great Beauty / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The Guard / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The Imitation Game / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The Miseducation of Cameron Post / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The Wedding Banquet / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Uncle Frank / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Victor Frankenstein / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Victor/Victoria / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
What's Your Number? / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Many A True Nerd (Lets Play) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Amberlough / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
And the Mountains Echoed / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Bloody Jack / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Convenience Store Woman / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Corpies / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Cross and Poppy / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Decades of Darkness / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Denpa Teki na Kanojo / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Dokkoida?! / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Domino Lady / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Dreams Of The Dying / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Elemental / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Elemental Series (Kemmerer) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Emberverse / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Fool / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Good Behaviour / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Green Hills / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Guard of Honor / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Havemercy / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
I, Claudius / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
I Saved Too Many Girls and Caused the Apocalypse / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
InCryptid / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Jesse Stone / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Kushiel's Legacy / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Marcus Didius Falco / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Mass / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Middlesex / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Mr Warren's Profession / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
My Feelings Can Wait / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Nyaruko: Crawling with Love! / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Osamake / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Paraiso Street / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
RDG: Red Data Girl / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Realm of the Elderlings / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Red, White & Royal Blue / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Replica (Jenna Black) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Seraph of the End: Guren Ichinose: Catastrophe at Sixteen / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Small Medium Big Trouble / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Spells, Swords, & Stealth / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Super Powereds / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Tales of the City / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The Comfortable Courtesan / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The Conquerors Saga / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The Han Solo Trilogy / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The Inheritance Games / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The Nevernight Chronicle / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The Shards / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The Traitor Baru Cormorant / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The Vast Fields of Ordinary / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Towards Zero / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Veronica Mars / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Victorian Omegaverse / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Worldwar / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
GoldenAgeOfHollywood	seeAlso	The Beard
MoustacheOfFailedHeterosexuality	seeAlso	The Beard
MyLovelySamSoon	seeAlso	The Beard
ThePlayboyClub	seeAlso	The Beard
Batuque (Manga) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Dandelion Among Lilies (Manga) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Family Complex (Manga) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Ghost Talker's Daydream (Manga) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Girl Friends (Manga) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Girl Friends (2006) (Manga) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
I Want To Be A Wall (Manga) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Iris Zero (Manga) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Kakeochi Girl (Manga) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Kill Blue (Manga) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Koi to Uso (Manga) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Koishi Tagari no Blue (Manga) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Love My Life (Manga) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Nagasarete Airantou (Manga) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Nisekoi (Manga)	seeAlso	The Beard
Poor Poor Lips (Manga) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Prince Charming (Manga) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Private Actress (Manga) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Recovery of an MMO Junkie (Manga) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Romantic Killer (Manga) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Siscon Ani To Brocon Imouto Ga Shoujiki Ni Nattara (Manga) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Skip Beat! (Manga) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The Gentlemen's Alliance (Manga) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The World is Still Beautiful (Manga) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Whispered Words (Manga) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Wolf Girl and Black Prince (Manga) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Zettai Heiwa Daisakusen (Manga) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
MONTERO (Call Me by Your Name) (Music) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Growing Up Cullen (Roleplay) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
A League of Their Own (2022) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
A Place to Call Home / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Alpha House / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Amar en tiempos revueltos / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Baby / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Baywatch / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Better Things / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Bomb Girls	seeAlso	The Beard
Boy Meets World / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Bridgerton / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Call the Midwife / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
CharitÃ© at War / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Chewing Gum / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Chuck / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Class of '09 / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Control Z / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Criminal (2019) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Dates / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Degrassi: The Next Generation / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Devious Maids / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Empire / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Everything Sucks! / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Fellow Travelers / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Flikken / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
For All Mankind / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
GCB / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
GLOW (2017) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Gigantic / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Girls / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Glee / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Gossip Girl (2007) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Grand Army / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Happy Endings / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Hart of Dixie / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Hitmen (2020) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
House of the Dragon / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Innocent UK / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Interview with the Vampire (2022) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Jane the Virgin / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Just Shoot Me! / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Kate & Allie / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Kim's Convenience / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Kings / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
La familia P. Luche / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Leonardo / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Love, Victor / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Luke Cage (2016) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Mad Men / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Modern Family / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Motive / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Murdoch Mysteries / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
One of Us is Lying / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
One Tree Hill / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Pan Am / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Party of Five (2020) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Perry Mason (2020) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Personal Taste / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Power Rangers in Space / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Primetime Glick / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Queer as Folk (US) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Ratched / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Revenge (2011) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Scandal / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Scandal (2012) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Shameless (US) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Skam / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Suits / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Sunset Beach / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Tattletales / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Taxi / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Taxi Brooklyn / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The Carrie Diaries / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The Confessions of Dorian Gray / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The Cool Kids / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The First Shop of Coffee Prince / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The George Lopez Show / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The Gilded Age / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The Guardians of Justice / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The L Word / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The Lunchroom / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The Man in the High Castle / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The Ministry of Time / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The Norm Show / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The Office (US) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The Oprah Winfrey Show / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The Playboy Club / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The Real O'Neals / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The Riches / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The Tudors / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
30 Rock / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
2gether: The Series / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Ugly Betty / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Unhappily Ever After / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Veronica Mars / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
WKRP in Cincinnati / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Whitechapel / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Whitechapel (TV Series) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Who's the Boss? / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
XO, Kitty / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
You Me Her / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Zoey 101 / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
I Am from Austria (Theatre) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Intimate Apparel (Theatre) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Legally Blonde (Theatre) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Mrs. Hawking (Theatre) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Shout The Mod Musical (Theatre) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The Children's Hour (Theatre) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Lamplight City (Video Game) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Lost Ark (Video Game) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Being A DIK (Visual Novel) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Da Capo (Visual Novel) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Desire & Decorum (Visual Novel) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Princess Evangile (Visual Novel) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Shiny Days (Visual Novel) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Jaydreamer's OC Snippets (Web Animation) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Queer Duck (Web Animation) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Gameboys (Web Video) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Les Chevaliers du Zodiaque : La Série Abrégée (Web Video) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Best Friends Forever (Webcomic) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Dash Academy (Webcomic) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
High Class Homos (Webcomic) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
ISO (Webcomic) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Misfile (Webcomic) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
180 Angel (Webcomic) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
RAIN (Webcomic) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Rain (2010) (Webcomic) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Sfeer Theory (Webcomic) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Welcome to Room #305 (Webcomic) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Wilde Life (Webcomic) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
YU+ME: dream (Webcomic) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Aqua Teen Hunger Force / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The Great North / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Stevie Richards (Wrestling) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Summer Wars / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Advice and Trust (Fanfic) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Dalton / Fan Fic / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Shameless (UK) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
My Forged Wedding (Visual Novel) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Penny and Aggie (Webcomic) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard

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