Being Quote by Stephen Karam

Without a conscious effort, all of my plays have all featured gay characters. I'm proud of that.

— Stephen Karam

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

— Garth Greenwell

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

— Shannon Purser

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

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

— Eric McCormack

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

— Christopher Rice

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

— Carol Anshaw

Once you're sort of pigeonholed into something, it's quite difficult to get out of it. I have no aversion to playing a gay character…

— Sarah Shahi

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

It's definitely my responsibility not to stereotype any character, but especially a gay character because of the misperceptions people still have about gays.

— Haaz Sleiman

The playing ground is so uneven, and there have been so many straight characters for such a long time, and so many gay actors…

— Stephanie Beatriz