Tropes
Anti-Marriage
One was never meant to marry anyway, or expression of the sentiment tha weddings are stupid/a waste
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"The One"
Never liked anyone before, but then there is this one girl / guy
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Buddy Story
Platonic Companionship, love only a man could have for another man
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Extra Attention
A man pays a little more attention to another man than normal, or at least more attention than others are paying
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Jealousy / Projection
Shows the story of two male best friends and the woman who forces them apart because they both love her
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Queer Woman
The queer figure in the story is a woman; the male writer may then be able to claim that he cannot relate to the queer figure
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Female Narrator
The figural narrator of the story gives us access into the female mind; interesting to consider from male writers
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Bury your Gays
Queer figure suffers an untimely death or commits suicide (often tied with unspoken info trope)
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Anti-Love
Queer figure needs to find some reason to marry besides love (often money)
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Hypermasculinity
Emphasizes the need to "be a man" and demonstrate's the negative consequences of such expectation
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Outside Look
The queer figure in the story is the subject of the story and not the narrator or figural character; we never see into their mind
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Unspoken Info
The narrator acknowledges that there are things left unsaid / that can't be said (often with death or suicide)
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Disguises / Trickery
Character's queerness exposed by another character's trickery
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Isolation
Characters experience forced isolation (literal or social), leading to a queer(ed) relationship
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Unrequited Love
A character who does not love the person who loves them is queered by their lack of understanding of their own emotions
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Internal Conflict
Portrayal of queer figure's strife involved with balancing their own thoughts with others' expectations of what should make them happy
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Dreamscape
Uses fantastical, dream-like imagery to set the story in an alternate world, where societal expectations don't exist
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Religion / Morality
Makes explicit
mention of religion or expected morals
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