Character Quote by Noelle Stevenson

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

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

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

— Carol Anshaw

You still have a difficulty seeing a more androgynous or masculine-looking representation in queer film or media, where it's not almost like a stereotype…

— Katy O'Brian

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

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

So often gay characters, particular those portrayed in an era where gayness was something of a taboo and a statement about 'who I am…

— Freddie Fox

“One of the problems in mainstreaming queer characters is that people think in order to get a character accepted, they have to be totally…

— Anonymous

I love it when novels contain a broad cast of characters, including queer ones.

— Emma Donoghue

Creatively, I just like interesting characters. So straight, gay, or whatever - like, whatever, wherever the characters are coming from or their lifestyle.

— Dee Rees

I kind of cheer the presence of any gay characters at all - I think the more we can saturate television with any gay…

— Jesse Tyler Ferguson