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A character who is [[Manly Gay]] is the complete opposite of the [[Camp]] stereotype. Typically such characters are large and strong, and shown doing masculine things like sports and working class jobs. He may have a [[Carpet of Virility]], he may be a [[Badass]], or he may have [[Stout Strength]]...but regardless of how he got here, the result is the same: While being gay, he's manlier than your average man, straight or [[Straight Gay]].

 

== [[Anime and Manga]] ==

** [[Drill Sergeant Nasty|Germany]] as well, if his [[Ship Tease|rather]] [[Ho Yay|close]] [[Official Couple|relationship]] with [[Genki Guy|Italy]] is any clue.

 

* Rob Halford of Judas Priest, the most badass metal singer to ever live, happens to be gay. Everyone [[Transparent Closet|already knew it]], he just didn't feel the need to admit it publically for years.

* Rock Hudson was the picture of manliness in the 50s. So much so, that his agent Henry Willson did everything in his power to stop the tabloids from ruining that image, go so far as to throw his other clients to the tabloids rather than let them get their hands on Rock Hudson's dirty little secret. He finally quelled the rumors in the form of [[The Beard|a beard]] named Phyllis Gates. They married and had two kids, but their marriage lasted less than 3 years when she found out he had an affair with another man. But with a divorce under his belt, Hudson was in the clear. Some even speculated that Phyllis went along with the charade for so long because she was a closet lesbian and he was her merkin (the lesbian version of a Beard).

* English Columnist and provocateur [http://www.marksimpson.com Mark Simpson], who coined the term [[Camp Straight|"Metrosexual"]] as a ''derision'' and suffered the subsequent [[Insult Backfire]], lies somewhere between this and [[Straight Gay]].

* ''The Butch Factor'' is a documentary that analyzes the aspect of masculinity in gay culture. It has good examples of manly gays as well as some [[Straight Gay|straight-acting]] and [[Camp Gay|Camp Gays]]. It can be watched on [[Logo]] [http://www.logotv.com/video/the-butch-factor/1635466/playlist.jhtml here].

* Japanese writer [[Yukio Mishima]], praising the manly ideal of the samurai. It is likely that Mishima, who fervently admired the ancient samurai, based his vision on the ''[[Hagakure (Literature)|Hagakure]]'''s concept of "pure love" ("burning hearts" in the ''Hagakure'') between men, which was at the time - at least in the work of prominent authors such as Jôchô Yamamoto - considered superior in terms of pureness and virility to heterosexual love (thus deemed necessary to some extent in order to guarantee the perpetuation of the clan's bloodline). Although Mishima himself did not advocate such a "hierarchy" among relationships, he married only to please his parents and stipulated that his wife must not have any interest or involvement in his work.

* A serving US Marine recently got himself hauled up before a court martial for appearing in a gay porn film while wearing part of his uniform<ref>But not ''all'' his uniform, so the Corps decided he'd only [[Incredibly Lame Pun|bent]] the rules</ref>. <ref> Besides, being known throughout the Corps as the leatherneck who appeared in a gay porn film is probably punishment enough.</ref>

** Incidentally, Alexander could have been a [[Manly Gay]] himself, or more likely bisexual.

 

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