Character Quote by Ian Mckellen

By making the gay character funny and sweet but above all normal, you make a far better, longer lasting statement than you would if…

— Sue Perkins

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 grew up in a conservative small town, and the gay characters I saw on TV and in movies when I was growing up…

— Chris Colfer

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

— Megan Mullally

As an actor, it was important to me to play gay characters because, growing up, it was something I never really saw done on…

— Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

I think there is gay comedy, because I think most gay comics are very very very in touch with that identity.

— Bowen Yang

A lot of comedies, I think, make the wrong choice of having the straight man being this bland emotional conduit for the audience.

— Thomas Middleditch

I can remember when there were storylines with gay characters on shows like 'Family' and 'Dynasty' and thinking, I have something in common with…

— Greg Berlanti

I was doing a college show for the first time, and there was this 20-year-old gay male who's been diabetic his entire life. He…

— Jessica Williams

My mom's brother was gay, and he actually passed away from AIDS when I was 13. He was quite a character, but he also…

— Casey Wilson

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

— Eric McCormack

In the mid-1980s, there wasn't a representation of gayness on television. Our glitter and our goofiness and our great costumes made in Vegas; the…

— Ivory