Character Quote by Christopher Rice

I couldn't imagine a book with many characters in it and one of them not being gay. It would have felt like a glaring…

— Ayana Mathis

I probably haven't had enough gay characters in my stuff. When you're writing something, you're thinking, 'Why couldn't this person be black, white, gay?'

— Martin McDonagh

When I started, you couldn't do anything. A gay person trying to write a gay character in 1998 - it was so difficult.

— Ryan Murphy

When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.

— Carol Anshaw

A lot of times, gay characters are represented in unrealistic or stereotypical ways.

— Shannon Purser

There are lots of big books that have gay characters - or, more commonly, a gay character - in secondary roles, but seldom are…

— Garth Greenwell

I always disliked that anytime you had gays represented in - and there were some exceptions, certainly - but represented in popular fiction, they…

— Joe R. Lansdale

People balk at the fact that I've played loads of gay characters. Maybe I have, but you know what? It doesn't matter.

— Freddie Fox

I had played many gay characters before, but they were finite - guest characters in TV shows or characters in plays.

— Eric McCormack

I think being gay has resulted in gay characters standing front and center in all of my work.

— Stephen Karam

A lot of character writing for gay people is talking about trauma. It's nice to - instead of playing trauma - get to play…

— E. R. Fightmaster

Few writers in history have ever been 'politically correct' (a notion that rapidly changes in any case), and there's no reason to imagine that…

— Edmund White