Being Quote by Cole Escola

I understand why the gay community wants to embrace actors who are out. People want to be represented.

— Cheyenne Jackson

There is a large group that's not represented on television - the group that falls somewhere in the middle of straight and gay. That…

— Sara Ramirez

The gay community has had a sometimes tumultuous relationship with non-queer people coming to their shows because it was tourism, like using the queer…

— Courtney Act

Shows like 'Superstore' and certainly 'Pose' are leading the way and showing queer people of color in a much more complex, nuanced light that…

— Nico Santos

There was a point in the latter 1990s at which, suddenly, every sitcom and drama in sight had to have a gay or lesbian…

— Lionel Shriver

I think there's quite a narrow representation of gay people on TV and I think that we need to push that. And I think…

— Ncuti Gatwa

I don't think there's been many chances for people to see a black, gay, pop experience and that's what I want to have with…

— MNEK

When we have gay characters on TV, they're just, kind of, gay for the sake of being gay. That's their personality. That's their whole…

— Ncuti Gatwa

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

— Shannon Purser

And I'd like to believe that's true, you know, kind of showing gay people in this kind of light and - where it's not…

— Sean Hayes

I feel like certainly there are people expecting 'Looking' to be representative of everyone that's gay, the entire gay community. And it's a dangerous…

— Jonathan Groff

Now, it's weird not to have gay characters on a show.

— Megan Mullally