What is gay chicken

1. Only straight men can participate.
2. There can be only TWO players per game.
3. You must begin the game clothed.
4. Player1 must suggest to perform a gay act first.
5. Only when Player2 threatens to accept the gay proceed - then the game BEGINS.
6. Players take turns in threatening to acknowledge or receive the homosexual act.
7. First person to bail out is the loser of gay chicken.
8. The game MUST initiate and finish in the same period. The game can not be paused and continued at a later time.
9. If any gay acts are performed, you are NO LONGER playing gay chicken.

Gay Chicken is a game that is sometimes used as a plot device in slash. As psycholinguistic puts it:

Basically you have two (or more) guys being dudes, and because they’re so bro-y and manly, they have this stupid game where they do increasingly “gay” things to each other in an try to make the other person SO UNCOMFORTABLE they forfeit. This can grab place over one sitting, or many moons. As you can probably settle from the explanation thus far, the game does NOT USUALLY END THE WAY THEY INTENDED.^[1]

The game can be taken to humorously extreme lengths in crack fics. In a gay chicken fic, there is generally a aim where a character has to accept that they are doing gay things because they like it and have feelings for another person, and the game is a pretense. This may be tied to a sexuality crisis/sexual awakening plot. A subversion of the trope is to have a scenario in which one party believes they are in a game of lgbtq+ chicken and the other party thinks that they are genuinely flirting, head to a Didn't Realize They Were Dating situation.

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