Yasuko's family, it should be noted, were fine with it. The response from Yasuko's sister, however, is for her to repeatedly ask whether Yasuko's really in love with Fumi, before delivering the Wham Line "So you're bisexual, Yasuko." Fumi had no idea that Yasuko wasn't a lesbian, and it leads to Yasuko breaking up with Fumi over her unrequited feelings for her old teacher, pointing out that Fumi has her own unrequited love to get over as well.
Luckily, there are no homophobes in this series, and the emphasis is more on the relationship between Akira and Fumi in light of this development. Akira is a bit surprised at first, but soon decides to support her friend fully. Fumi has her coming out toward her best friend Akira at their favorite hang-out spot, when she tells her that she's dating a senior from her all-girl high school.Such stories will often be inspired by Coming Out Stories. For ways that characters can realize their identity, see Closet Key or LGBT Awakening.
This trope has a strong overlap with Queer Establishing Moment in stories where it isn't the main focus of the work. If a trans person has supernatural help coming out, see Supernaturally Validated Trans Person. If a character comes out as a supernatural creature, see Have You Tried Not Being a Monster?. Related to Late Coming Out, which is for people who come out well into adulthood. If not, then this will almost always be a Gay Aesop. If the characters are an ensemble of LGBT characters, usually this plot is assigned to The Twink or the Lipstick Lesbian. Several teen and young-adult centric stories will incorporate this with a Coming-of-Age Story. It also might be a payoff for a character who has long been giving hints, in which case few are surprised. Sometimes done especially clumsily, such as to a character who never gave any indication before. Also usually includes a hate crime somewhere in the story. When parents are involved, they will either furiously throw their own child out of the home for this revelation, or reveal that they suspected all along, but were content to wait for their child to feel comfortable enough to admit it. In any case, while coming out certainly happens in real life, the coming out story trope has certain standard stereotypical notes that every telling of it hits, no matter who the characters involved are.Īlthough there are only so many variations you can do with it, you can be assured that any LGBT cast member of a show will relate it to someone at one point, or have it shown one person in their life will wholeheartedly support them, while at least another will turn out to be homophobic (even if they gave no indication of ever being so in the past) and will hate them. Used at least once for almost every LGBT character ever, but most often seen with lesbian or gay characters, due to the No Bisexuals trope and trans characters still being rare as well (as are asexual, pansexual, etc. The LGBT story trope: a Closet Gay (or Bi or Trans etc.) character's journey to embracing who they really are.