Cure Your Gays/Playing With

Basic Trope: Homosexuality is to be remedied.

• Played Straight: Alice holds an intervention when Bob shows a little too much interest in Charlie.
• Exaggerated:
  • Alice does so when Bob holds Charlie's hand.
  • Alice tries to do so when she sees Bob and Charlie merely hugging.
• Justified:
  • The homosexual inclinations were a defense mechanism against some trauma.
  • The curing is purely voluntary on the part of the gays.
• Inverted: The culture has reproduction by artificial insemination and sees homosexuality as the only healthy form of sexuality.
• Subverted:
  • The intervention seems to work, but it just makes Bob repressed.
  • The intervention seems to work, but only because Bob was bisexual, and now focuses exclusively on women.
• Double Subverted: ...but then Bob thinks about the message a little more and turns straight.
• Parodied:
  • Alice tries to take Bob to an actual hospital to cure his homosexuality.
  • There is a homosexual rehabilitation center.
  • An Absent-Minded Professor accidentally develops "ze cure for teh gay!1" while looking for a Cure for Cancer.
• Deconstructed: The intervention damages him psychologically and emotionally, and Bob is no longer able to lead a normal life.
• Reconstructed: The intervention doesn't work, but Alice doesn't try again and just leaves Bob and Charlie alone.
• Zigzagged: A story about a homosexual who changes orientation, goes back, tries again, etc. Whether success or failure ensues depends on the author's views.
• Averted: Either Bury Your Gays or social acceptance of homosexuality.
• Enforced: The author believes homosexuality is wrong/harmful but has no hatred whatsoever.
• Lampshaded: "Bob is gay? Uh-oh. You just know someone's gonna try to intervene."
• Invoked:
  • In an explicitly religious work, a homosexual person wants to change.
  • In a non-religious work, a religious character is afraid for (NOT of) a homosexual Loved One. Whether this is seen as a good thing or a bad thing depends on the author's views.
• Defied:
  • Bob refuses to have anything to do with such attempts.
  • Alternately: "Hey, if Barb wants to date Carol, everyone wins. I'm not gonna stop her."
• Discussed:
  • An Anvilicious (maybe vicious, maybe not) Character Filibuster by the gay person on tolerance.
  • Or a Character Filibuster by the Heteronormative Crusader on how homosexuals are sick and need such a cure.
• Conversed: The same, about a Show Within a Show.
• Exploited: Andy and Bob are rivals for Charlie's affection. Andy arranges for Bob to be turned heterosexual, leaving no obstacle to him getting together with Charlie.

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