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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

It never occurred to me to write anything that didn't include gay characters in it.

— Christopher Rice

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

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

— Shannon Purser

I think I just felt a sadness at some points in my career that what is available to a straight writer is not available…

— Kevin Sessums

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

— Stephen Karam

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

Early on, I got some criticism from other gay writers and queer theorists for being too 'assimilationist,' probably because my characters are outsiders, even…

— Stephen McCauley

The writing was so clearly written on the wall about me, but I didn't see it. I had no role models. I didn't know…

— Bryan Batt

I am a gay writer, but I am also a Scottish writer and some days a lazy writer, or a funny writer. Being gay…

— Damian Barr

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

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

— Carol Anshaw