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'''Maggie''': He can’t be gay if he’s got a daughter.
'''Andy''': [[Oscar Wilde]] was married with two kids.
'''Maggie''': Well he couldn’t have been gay.
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{{quote|'''Penny''': ''"Will you just play along until my dad leaves?"''
'''Leonard''': ''"Hold on. You actually want me to'' deceive ''your father with some sham, play-acting and kissing 'cause I'm GOOD with that!"''
|''[[The Big Bang Theory]]''}}
A character who pretends to be another's Significant Other in order to perpetrate a deception.
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* Liza Minelli is often (snarkily) said to be this for her last husband, David Gest.
* A few years ago, Ian Wishart claimed that the then-Prime Minister of New Zealand, Helen Clark, was a lesbian with a gay husband. Controversy ensued.
* According to the celebrity gossip blogs and their commenters, any woman who dates a handsome young Hollywood celebrity is a beard, because every last one of them is gay. Even when these men are serial monogamists who eventually marry, they're still gay, and the women they date are sniffily referred to as "the professional beard" and given the side-eye from there on in. Not surprisingly, Hollywood doesn't seem to have a large population of sexually active women (straight or lesbian) or conventionally unattractive gay men, as the wishfully thinking gays and [[
** Based on this, there's a persistent rumor that [[Taylor Swift]] is either gay or is the beard for all her boyfriends, because most of them have been suspected to be gay at some point, despite the fact half of the people she is supposedly the beard for have never actually dated her.
* In China, because of the immense pressure to get married and have kids, somewhere around 80% of the gay population marries straight people. This has resulted in an interesting phenomenon where various places will host [http://www.slate.com/id/2279907 "fake-marriage markets"] where gay and lesbian people can meet and look for someone who is willing to play the beard for them (and vice versa).
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