Glee has Camp Gay social outcast Kurt crush on Finn, the quarterback, freaking the latter out.Inverted in You Know Me Well, where baseball player Mark harbors a crush on his sensitive poet friend Ryan." Educating Alex " is an early original slash webfiction about openly gay college student Ryan crushing on the athletic Alex who turns out to like him back.Then in the end it turns out Blue is a jock, as Bram is on the soccer team. The Homo Sapiens Agenda isn't specifically seeking a jock, he doesn't mind staring at them. Given that it's a romance novel, it ends happily. Caught Running, a gay romance novel, has this - only this time, it's ten years after high school the gay guy is a biology teacher, and the popular jock is the baseball coach." This Year's Prom King " depicts this kind of relationship, with the twist that the jock is the main character doing most of the pursuing as the gay geek is a sarcastic loner who thinks that all jocks are jerks and hates that he's attracted to one.
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In an interesting twist, Paul - the male jock - befriends Ellie after hiring her to secretly write love letters because he also seeks Aster. The Half of It Has a female version of this: Ellie is a nerdy lesbian seeking Aster, the popular girl.
In Beauty and the Beast (2017), Lefou becomes an Ignored Enamored Underling to the local Jerk Jock Gaston via Adaptational Sexuality.Genderflipped in Show Me Love, where the quiet and almost completely isolated Agnes falls in love with Lovable Alpha Bitch Elin.The film adaptation of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, this plays out just like in the novel (see below).Were the World Mine has Timothy, the only openly gay boy in his class, in love with Lovable Jock Jonathon, the captain of his school's rugby team.The British film Get Real had the Shrinking Violet Steven discovering jock and School Idol John was gay after he found him cruising in public toilets.
So many gay stories use this trope for several reasons, best written by Brent Hartinger, author of Geography Club. As the visibility grew, a common romance trope was employed over and over again enough that it became cliché: A gay teenager (who is the Audience Surrogate) ranging from Camp Gay to Shrinking Violet falls in love with/actively pursues/crushes on/is paired up with a popular, muscular and (usually) closeted jock. LGBT media and LGBT characters featured in media have grown in prominence the past few decades.