Better Quote by Sue Perkins

In the old-fashioned sitcoms, to be gay was, in itself, funny, and you laughed at the characters rather than with them.

— Ian Mckellen

There are sometimes concerns about being respectful with a gay character, and you either end up with a tiptoeing quality or an all-out cliche.

— Casey Wilson

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

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

— Bowen Yang

“I didn't set out to do a gay comic, but given the current political and religious climate in this country, I feel it is…

— Paige Braddock

So much of male heterosexual comedy can be steeped in a gay panic. A lot of juvenile comedy is predicated on that.

— John Benjamin Hickey

I think there's too many gay jokes in comedy and not enough honest explorations of sexuality.

— Chris Gethard

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

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

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

You don't bring in a gay character as a way of commenting on gay issues. You have one there because he's real, and that's…

— Teju Cole