Miss Brant is a repressed lesbian, and serial killer who kills girls who give themselves up to boys. Broadcast in 1961. The show was inspired by the 1950 film The Asphalt Jungle.[1][2]
Dr. Starke (Ralph Bellamy) treats Hallie, a lesbian and an unstable actress, who has fallen in love with the female director of the play she is appearing in.[3][4]
Barry is gay, and worked for Gubernatorial candidate Stephen Patterson (Craig Stevens). When Stevens discovers that Barry is gay, he forces him to resign to avoid a scandal. Barry gets revenge by framing Patterson for murder.[7]
Fourteen year old Cory Melino (Ron Howard) discovers that his divorced father Jack is gay, when he makes a surprise visit to his house. Jane Wyman has a guest role as Dr. Amanda Fallon, who scolds the mother and grandfather (Jim Davis) for hiding this information from Cory, in episode "Discovery at Fourteen"[8]
Dr. Claymore is a lesbian and a psychiatrist called in to handle a heart patient, Tobi, who is not taking her medicine. Tobi's boyfriend believes that Dr. Claymore is out to convert his girlfriend, in episode "Impasse". In his book Alternate Channels, author Steven Capsuto cites Annie Claymore as "American TV's first productive, happy lesbian character."[3]
A gay research scientist becomes the target of a smear campaign. Dr. Gannon (Chad Everett) defends Teverly against the smears, by reminding his colleagues that "it was a homosexual who painted the ceilings" of the Sistine Chapel.[10][11]
Bert is a closeted construction worker, who agrees to cooperate with the police to catch a gang of blackmailers who are robbing and targeting homosexuals, with threats to out them unless they pay money to them.[12]
Charles is an openly gay businessman and activist, who also agrees to help the police with the gang of blackmailers. When he is initially asked to help, Spad makes it clear to them that "just because I'm a homosexual...doesn't mean I know every other one in the country".[13]
A cosmopolitan London couple, Peter and Cathy Young (Alfred Lynch and Glenda Jackson), find their outwardly charmed lives upended by Robin, a troubled homosexual friend. Broadcast in 1965.[14]
Fred Baxter (Larry Keith) learns that one of Jonah's (Chris Petersen) teachers is gay. Homophobic neighbor Jerry Johnson (Chuck McCann) circulates a petition demanding that the teacher be fired.[17]
Sara is the first female officer assigned to patrol duty in Bronk's (Jack Palance) department. Sara is accused of being a lesbian after an arrest of a female. The series was created by Carroll O'Connor, who was also the executive producer.[18]
Julie is in an abusive marriage with her husband, and comes out as lesbian to her best friend Leona (Patricia Smith). Leona responds to Julie that she likes her too, and then feeling upset about this, walks into traffic with Julie right behind her. Consequently, Julie is hit by a truck and dies.[3]
Miss Jessup is a lesbian teacher who gets Buddy (Kristy McNichol) interested in reading. Stacey (Helen Hunt) bullies Buddy for being a teacher's pet. Stacey's mother (Joyce Van Patten) outs her at a school board meeting and tries to get her fired, but nobody cares because Miss Jessup is the best teacher anybody has ever had.[3]
Meg writes for a lesbian newspaper, and is the ex-roommate of Ann Glover (Meredith Baxter), a collegiate diving superstar. When Ann is accused of trying to seduce a 15-year-old student, Meg testifies on her behalf. It turns out that her accuser was in such a panic over her own feelings for Ann, she lied about Ann, in episode "Words of Summer". Meg was the first young adult character to state unequivocally that she was a lesbian on a TV drama. The character of Ann was inspired by Babe Didrikson Zaharias.[3]
Lewis is a gay writer of romantic novels, and Richie is his young on-off boyfriend. Lewis writes an article on gay issues under the pseudonym of "Zippy Grimes", and the article is a great success. Several fans write letters in support and when he meets some of these fans, he is forced to come out. Broadcast in 1979.[21][14]
Stephen is a young, pre-transition bank clerk. She is bullied and belittled by her volatile mother (Sylvia Kay), a teenage girl-next-door, and a homophobic colleague. Susan is British TV drama's first transgender lead character. Broadcast in 1979.[22][21]
A trio of lesbians are stealing from and killing off residents in a nursing home. Pepper (Angie Dickinson) goes undercover as a nurse to expose the killing-and-stealing scheme, in episode "Flowers of Evil".[3]
Marlena is a lesbian and a successful business executive, she was Pepper's roommate in college. Marlena is called on to testify on Pepper's behalf when she is accused of sexually molesting a female suspect, in episode "Trial by Prejudice".[3]
Terri is a bisexual young officer who temporarily became Joan Ferguson's live-in lover. The actor Margot Knight played two characters in this series, inmate Sharon Gilmour in 1980 and prison officer Terri Malone in 1985.[23][24]
Jackie and Chrissie, two officers in the Women's Royal Army Corps, are in a lesbian relationship. The 1974 episode "Girl", featured the first lesbian kiss on British television.[25][14]
Alfred leaves Eaton Place to work as a footman for his lover, Baron Klaus von Rimmer, after their affair is discovered. In the third season, Alfred returns to Eaton Place seeking refuge after he murdered Von Rimmer.[31]
Hank was the openly gay designer who worked for Barbara Ryan (Colleen Zenk) but made the decision to leave the town to care for his lover, Charles, who was dying of AIDS. [19]
Tony moves in next door to Cagney in the episode, "Rites of Passage" and the two become fast friends. He was a recurring character for the last two seasons of the show. [33]
In the episode "What If I'm Gay?", Todd comes out after his friends find a gay magazine in his desk. Todd confronts his friend Kirk (Manfred Melcher) about his homophobia, which may be rooted in his own anxiety about his sexual orientation, because of the sexual experimentation he and Todd engaged in when younger.[34][35]
David Hand is a gay cadet at the fictional Ulysses S. Grant Military Academy. David is raped and murdered and the prime suspect is Ry Slaight (Alec Baldwin). To clear his name, Ry initiates his own investigation and discovers that Cadet Winant (Joseph Kell), is the actual murderer.[37]
Self-identifies as homosexual. He is among the earliest gay main characters included in an American television series. When Coleman took over the role, his change in appearance was explained by plastic surgery due to an oil rig explosion.[38]
Bart was a closeted gay, until he was outed by Adam Carrington (Gordon Thomson). In the 1991 reunion show, Steven had followed Bart (then played by Cameron Watson) to Washington D.C. and become his lover.[39]
Marilyn and Patty are a lesbian couple. Marilyn is a nurse practitioner and co-founder of a women's clinic, and Patty is a chef. HeartBeat is the first prime time series in the U.S. to include a lesbian (Marilyn McGrath) as a main character.[41][42]
Detective Bradley, who is off-duty, is the only witness at a deadly shooting at a gay bar. He is reluctant to come forward for fear that he'll be outed, in episode "Here's Adventure, Here's Romance".[46]
Officer Coffey (Ed Marinaro) is propositioned by Coach Beasley, his former high school football coach, during a prostitution sting, in episode "Queen for a Day".[47][48]
George was a gay informant whose business was used by undercover cops working in Hollywood. Actor John Matuszak was best known for his role as Sloth in the 1985 movie The Goonies.[50]
(Season 1) Christopher is gay and has AIDS. Christopher is prosecuted by Grace Van Owen (Susan Dey) for the mercy-killing of his lover, who also had the disease in episode "The Venus Butterfly". Mark is Christopher's openly gay attorney. In Season 4, Mark Gilliam returns in episode "Blood, Sweat and Fears" where he is representing a widow suing a doctor, represented by Victor Siefuentes (Jimmy Smits), who refused to perform a surgical operation on her husband who was infected with AIDS. One year later in the Season 5 finale episode "Since I Fell For You", Victor represents Mark, who is in the middle stages of AIDS himself, in suing a pharmaceutical company who will not pay for Mark's experimental treatment for AIDS. [52]
(Season 3) In episode "The Accidental Jurist", Michael Kuzack (Harry Hamlin) chooses retired Judge O'Neil, whom he knows is secretly gay, to hear the case of his client Matthew Leonard, an Olympic athlete suing a corporation when Leonard loses an endorsement deal after coming out.[53][54]
(Season 4) Stan is gay, and a former policeman, being represented by Michael Kuzak, who sues a journalist who outed him without permission in episode "Outward Bound".[55]
(Season 5) James is gay and is being represented by Ann Kelsey (Jill Eikenberry) who is suing the homophobic parents of his lover, who is dying of ALS, when they refuse visitation rights to James, in episode "Smoke Gets in Your Thighs".[55]
Introduced in Season 5, C.J. is bisexual, and after a celebratory dinner, her and Abby share an intimate kiss, in episode "He's a Crowd". According to Out Magazine, it was the first same-sex kiss on American television.[56]
(Season 5) Susan is a transgender model represented by Douglas Brackman Jr. (Alan Rachins), who sues the cosmetics company where she worked, when her status is discovered, in episode "Speak, Lawyers, For Me".[55]
(Season 6) Maggie is a lesbian, and one of C.J.'s former lovers, who is being represented by Arnie Becker (Corbin Bernsen) who is being sued by her ex-husband for full custody of their two children after Maggie recently came out of the closet in episode "The Nut Before Christmas".
Simon Matz
Anthony Fusco
(Season 7) Simon Matz is gay and being defended by Jonathan Rollins (Blair Underwood) which Matz claims that the LAPD detective, Greg Riley (Jason Beghe), who arrested him entrapped him by becoming his lover in episode "Cold Shower".
Kidder is a reclusive gay painter in this five-part drama series about two teenage boys from Liverpool who run away to Wales, and briefly stay with Kidder.[57]
While Channing, who was bisexual, was shot to death in a flashback during the series' first episode, he reappeared in many future episodes during flashbacks. [58]
Matthew is gay and has a brief sexual relationship with Phil. In the hostile atmosphere of Section 28, a nervous BBC first avoids showing Two of Us (part of BBC Schools TV series) at all, then does, but only at 23.30.[14]
Lorraine and Theresa are a lesbian couple that move into Brewster Place, where they become the subject of malicious gossip.[63] They are the first black lesbian couple portrayed on American television.[64]
Evelyn is a lesbian history professor and an environmentalist, who is murdered. The team goes undercover at the school to investigate, in episode "A Change of Heart".[65][66]
Ben is a gay teenager, thrown out of the house, living in the car wash garage, where he is befriended by David Silver.[67]
1990–2000
Mike Ryan
Jack Armstrong
Mike is gay and the president of his fraternity. At a wardrobe fitting for a charity event, a fraternity brother gay-baits Steve (Ian Ziering), who in response outs Mike, in episode "Blind Spot".[68]
Ron and Erick are a gay couple who buy a house from Maurice (Barry Corbin) to open an upscale bed and breakfast called the Sourdough Inn. They get married in the fifth season of the series.[75]
The fictitious town of Cicely Alaska, where the show takes place, was founded by lesbian partners Cicely and Rosyln in 1908 when their car broke down in the Alaskan wilderness. Their story was told in the final episode of 1992.[75][76]
Norma was a minor character; a TV producer introduced in Season 4 who was an out-and-proud lesbian (though her partner, Chris, never appeared onscreen).[78]
Malloy's gay brother Danny comes to visit looking forward to a birthday celebration, but is beaten to death by a group of young thugs just because he is gay.[80]
After coming out, Matt is physically assaulted and fired from work because of his sexual orientation. Fox pulled a scene where Matt kissed another man after their first date. The scene included a kiss when it was filmed, but when the show aired, viewers only saw the two men shake hands and share a meaningful look.[81][82][83]
Susan's relationship with Talia was never explicitly shown on screen, but only implied. Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski and actors Claudia Christian and Andrea Thompson made it clear that there was always intended to be a romantic relationship between the two characters.[87][17]
Linda and Paula are a lesbian couple raising a teenage son, Will (Justin Whalin), who is confronted with the conservative views of his new school. Stephen Tropiano writes in his book, The Prime Time Closet, "the hour drama does an excellent job at introducing the subject of gay parenting to young viewers by exposing how prejudice is rooted in fear and ignorance".[88][89]
Abby was a uniformed police officer in Seasons 4 and 5 who was a friend of Greg Medavoy (Gordon Clapp) and an open lesbian involved with a woman named Kathy (played by Lisa Darr).[93]
Lionel comes out to his parents. His mother is surprised, and accepts the news, but his father is outraged and cuts him out of his life, and forbids his other children to ever contact him again. Based on Danielle Steel's novel of the same name.[102][103]
Rickie is an openly gay teenager who lived with an abusive uncle who threw him out, and then moved away without telling him. Homeless and nowhere to go, he asks his gay teacher Mr. Katimske for help, who takes him in. In an interview for The Advocate, Wilson Cruz, who is openly gay, said he identified with his character as his dad also threw him out when he came out.[105]
Snowy is a 17-year-old gay cyclist at a fictional Australian school for athletically gifted teens. Ledger's character was the first time a gay teenager had been portrayed on Australian television.[114][115]
Ferdy is bisexual and Warren's on-off love interest (season 1). He begins coming to terms with his sexuality when he develops a relationship with Lenny (season 2).[116][117]
Willow is bisexual. While she was in a relationship with Daniel "Oz" Osbourne in seasons three to four, she later enters a relationship with Tara in season 4.[119][120][121]
Jack comes out as gay in season 2. Jack also shares a passionate kiss with Ethan in an episode titled "True Love". This kiss sparks a conversation with Jack's father in which he opens up about the struggle of feeling so different and finally earns acceptance from his father.[132]
Doug constantly denied he was gay through most of the show but he finally came to terms with his relationship with Jack in the final episode of the series.[133]
Chris is bisexual (Seasons 6–8). She is a young constable recruited into a deep undercover unit of the Victorian Police, who had a brief affair with the daughter of her unit's commander, as well as sharing a kiss with the female protagonist of the series, Angie Piper (Kate Kendall}.[142]
Kris is lesbian, sent to prison for murdering her father, it is later revealed that her younger sister killed their father. but Kris protected her.[143]
Dr. Huang is a psychiatrist and FBI agent who frequently consults with the Special Victims Unit. He first casually mentions his homosexuality in the 2009 episode "Hardwired".[148]
Vladimir has been described as a predatory homosexual given to pederasty and incest, and is an unrepentant rapist and murderer. The miniseries is based on the 1965 eponymous novel.[161][162]
Justin is gay and has an on-and-off open relationship with Brian, and had been with another romantic partner named Ethan for a short period of time.[170][168]
Vic is gay and old enough to remember the gay culture of the 1970s and early 1980s. He would sometimes reminisce about his carefree life as a young 20-something during the disco era.[164][168]
Dusty
Rae Ellen Bodie
Dusty is lesbian and a friend of Melanie and Lindsay. She dies in a bomb explosion at the local gay nightclub during the final season of the show.[174][165]
This series follows characters in three different time settings, 1993, 2001 and 2008. Gregory pursues heterosexual relationships in 1993, but in 2001 and 2008 time settings, he is exclusively gay.[181]
Inara is pansexual. She hires herself out as a courtesan to upper-class clients and dignitaries, male or female, that seek sexual pleasure and accompaniment at social functions.[188][189]
2002–2003
The Councillor
Katherine Kendall
Appearing in episode "War Stories", the Councilor is lesbian, and one of the few female customers of Inaras.[188]
William's sexuality is not openly discussed, but he is seen in a gay bar during Season 3. John Dorman said in an interview that he gets asked a lot if his character was gay, and replied, "I think people have to decide if they think Rawls was actually gay or if he was just hanging out on some police business".[196]
Prior is gay, and dying from AIDS. Louis is his lover who cannot bare to watch Prior suffer. Angels in America is a saga that intertwines the fates of four gay men.[199][200]
Belize is a gay nurse, and the go-between for Prior and Louis. This drama was nominated for 21 Emmys, and won 11, including outstanding miniseries. It was based on the Pulitzer Prize–winning 1991 play of the same name.[199][200]
A-Qing is gay, and is expelled from school because of scandalous relations with classmate Zhao Ying. After his father kicks him out, he hangs out at a park, known for gay cruising.[202]
Kit is bisexual, and a British detective who is brought in to help investigate a case in Miami. She has an incestuous relationship with her brother.[204]
Carson is secretly gay, until his son Luke, catches him kissing another man. Carson eventually comes out to his family.[206]
Todd
Todd Sherry
Todd and Patrick are a gay couple who reside in Sandy and Kirsten Cohens' first home in Berkeley, California. After an earthquake in Newport destroys their house, the Cohens' want to buy back their first home from Todd and Patrick, who end up selling it back to them. This episode was the series finale.[207]
Joanie is a lesbian, and along with her friend Maddie, opens a brothel that imports high-class and experienced prostitutes from the East. She also gets involved with Jane in a relationship.[211][212]
Jane is a lesbian, and a frontierswoman and former scout for General George Armstrong Custer. She first arrived in Deadwood with Wild Bill Hickok and Charlie Utter. Jane also gets involved with Joanie in a relationship.[211][212]
Andrew is the first gay character on the show. Justin was his first boyfriend, whom he was caught with naked in a swimming pool making out. Andrew gets engaged to Alex Cominis in season 5.[213][214][215]
Katherine is bisexual, and moves to Paris with Robin, an ex-stripper. She later moves back to Wisteria Lane, after becoming a successful businesswoman.[218]
Lloyd is gay and the flamboyant but self-assured assistant to highly abrasive super-agent Ari Gold. At the time, Lloyd was one of the few gay Asian Pacific-Islander characters on television. Rex Lee, the actor who portrays Lloyd, is openly gay as well.[220]
Jackson is 13 and questioning. He is admitted to the hospital because of his genetic mosaicism, a condition where Jackson was born with male and female DNA and ambiguous genitalia.[224]
Max is a lesbian, and the girlfriend of Hannah, who was suffering from insomnia. Max knew that Hannah was going to leave her, so she got a dog, but it gave Hannah bubonic plague.[225]
Spencer is a lesbian, and has a one-night stand with Thirteen. After having sex, Spencer has a seizure and is admitted to the hospital, seen is episode "Lucky Thirteen".[226]
Amy
Jaclyn Jonet
Amy is a lesbian, and Thirteen's girlfriend at the end of the series. They leave for Greece together but come back for House's funeral.[227]
Matt is a closeted gay, who comes out to his friend Jack (Matt Long), who he has a secret crush on. He later commits suicide without telling anyone why, in episode "The Lost Boys".[228][229]
Bette is a lesbian. She opened an art museum with her college roommate Kelly Wentworth, where she was the director. She was in a relationship for seven years with Tina, prior to the show's beginning.[230][231][232]
Dana was a lesbian, funny and likable. During season 3, she develops breast cancer and dies, in episode "Losing the Light". According to Ilene Chaiken, killing off Dana was the one thing that she regretted. She said the audience never forgave her for it, and it's the one thing that she maybe would change if she could go back and change anything.[233][230][231][232]
Marina is bisexual and the owner of the hangout spot, The Planet, seen in season one. She has an affair with Jenny while Jenny is still in a relationship with her boyfriend. Marina is also in a long term open relationship with her girlfriend, Francesca.[230][231][232]
Tina is bisexual, and is Bette Porter's long-term on-and-off partner, before finally getting married. They later divorce, but remain on good terms because of their daughter Angie.[230][231][232]
Shane is a lesbian, and a successful owner of a chain of hair salons. She was formerly a vagrant, crashing on her friends couches and in other people's beds as often as she could, before she became successful. She has slept with men for money in the past.[230][231][232]
Alice lives in Los Angeles, California, and mostly hangs out in West Hollywood. During the first seasons, she is often seen with her best friends, Shane McCutcheon and Dana Fairbanks.[230][231][232]
Jenny is bisexual and the most hated character on the show, due to her dark and destructive ways. In the series finale, she is killed off when she is found floating face-down in Bette and Tina's swimming pool. Sergeant Marybeth Duffy (Lucy Lawless) is brought in to investigate her death, and the series ends with all of the friends going to the police station to make their statements.[230][231][232]
Jodi is a lesbian, and a deaf artist who teaches at the university, where Bette is the Dean of. They eventually end up having an affair.[230][231][232]
Molly is bisexual and Phyllis' daughter. She had a crush on Shane and later slept with her. Clementine Ford, the actress who portrays Molly, is the daughter of Cybill Sheperd, who plays her mother Phyliss in the show.[230][231][232]
Max is a bisexual trans man. He transitioned with grey market male hormones and no medical assistance. He has a relationship with Jenny Schecter through most of the third season.[230][231][232]
Tasha is a lesbian and an Army National Guard Captain and a Military Police officer, she eventually gets kicked out under Don't ask, don't tell. She is Alice's girlfriend for seasons 4–6.[230][231][232]
Phyllis is a lesbian, and Molly's mother. She has an on-again/off-again relationship with her divorce attorney, Joyce. Cybill Sheperd, the actress who plays Phyliss, is the mother of actress Clementine Ford, who portrays her daughter Molly in the show.[230][231][232]
Nadia is a lesbian, and was a student in Bette's class at the university She had a crush on Bette and successfully convinced her to hire her as a teacher's assistant. She then aggressively pursued Bette, and they end up having sex in Bette's car.[230][231][232]
Niki is a lesbian, and a famous movie star who dates Jenny, hooks up with Shane, and has an affair with Paris Hilton. Her character was based on Lindsay Lohan.[230][231][232]
Paige is bisexual and begins a relationship with Shane in season four. They meet after Shane's brother, Shay (Aidan Jarrar), makes friends with her son, Jared (Jackson Allan).[230][231][232]
Catherine is a lesbian and a professional gambler. She gets involved in a relationship with Helena, seducing her into a world of high stakes betting on poker games and horse races. Helena soon realizes she is being scammed, and snaps, cleaning out Catherine's safe.[230][231][232]
Dylan is bisexual, and seduces Helena Peabody into having an affair. She then files sexual harassment charges against Helena as a means of extortion. She later develops real feelings for Helena.[230][231][232]
Tonya is a lesbian, and met Dana when she was assigned as Dana's hospitality assistant during a golf tournament. When the tournament was over, she ended up moving in with Dana and appointed herself Dana's manager. After Dana discovered Tonya was skimming 15% off her earnings, they broke up. Tonya then began a relationship with Melissa Rivers (portrayed by herself).[230][231][232]
Peggy is a lesbian, and the founder of the Peabody Foundation and mother of Helena. Bette attempts to convince her to lend her collection "Provocations" to the California Art Center, where Bette works. She passes on her fortune and foundation to Helena, and resumes her relationship with her former lover, Marilyn, who she was in a relationship with in 1973. According to co-creator Ilene Chaiken, when production began, the show was called "Earthlings", not "The L Word", but it sounded just too sci-fi, Chaiken said.[234][230][231][232]
Moorat is a 33-episode series that tells the story of the trans community in Pakistan. The series focuses on a woman who is engaged to be married, but her fiancée is transgender. The trans woman eventually escapes from her family's strictness, and being shunned, for the love of her intersex friends. The series was directed by Kamran Qureshi.[237][238][239]
Mike's sexuality throughout the series is ambiguous. He is sexually involved with his gay roommate, receiving oral sex, but never reciprocating. He gets sexually involved with a brother and sister and then self-identifies as bisexual, but later reverts to stating he is heterosexual.[240][241]
Seth is an openly gay student at fictional Neptune High. Seth helps in a scheme to bring Tad down, because Tad used to bully him. Tad is blackmailing his girlfriend who wants to break up with him, in episode "M.A.D.".[246]
Ryan is a closeted gay, who runs a website called The Pirates SHIP (Student Homosexual Internet Posting). The website is for closeted students to anonymously communicate with each other. The website gets hacked by blackmailers who threaten to out them unless they pay.[247]
Selma is bisexual, and a wealthy heiress and college board trustee. Her husband was blackmailing her, because he caught her with another woman, and he wanted a bigger divorce settlement, in episode "Lord of the Pi's".[253]
Angela is bisexual, and a genius who invents software to render 3D art. She had a brief relationship with college friend Roxie, but later married Dr. Jack Hodgins.[256]
Peter is a gay medical student, and the son of Daniel (Aidan Quinn), a priest who is addicted to narcotic painkillers. There was some controversy when the show first aired, and it was dropped after four episodes.[257][258]
2005
Michael Vaporelli
Danny Mastrogiorgio
Michael is gay, and a member of the mob. After Peter is the victim of three gay bashers, Michael helps Peter's dad Daniel, confront one of them to ask him why. Daniel ends up outraged when the attacker tells him that his "fag son got what he deserved", and punches him in the face; Michael intervenes and tells the punk, "You know who I am. You were never here. You fell. You got that?"[259]
Victoria Conlin
Cheryl White
Victoria is bisexual and Daniel's sister-in-law. She has a lesbian affair with her deceased husband's secretary. After the secretary disappears, she gets involved with Michael Vaporelli's brother.[259]
Vince is gay and HIV-positive and is the chief of staff for the first female President (Geena Davis). The show only ran for one season and received a nomination for GLAAD Outstanding Drama Series.[260]
Jack is an omnisexual character from the 51st century. John Barrowman said that the character is "bisexual, but in the realm of the show, we call him omnisexual".[261][262] Jack was the first openly queer character to appear in the history of Doctor Who.[263]
River is bisexual and was conceived on the TARDIS. She was born Melody Pond, and she has been married 428 times. River was also married to the Doctor. In May 2012, Steven Moffat, one of the writers for the show, stated that River, like Jack, is bisexual.[264][265]
Clara is bisexual, and describes Jane Austen as a great kisser. She is also set to die in one minute, but since she is time traveling, that minute never comes.[266]
Bill is a lesbian and the twelfth Doctor's companion. After being shot, she is turned into the first Cyberman. Her liquid alien girlfriend (Heather), returns to save her, by having her brain copied into another liquid alien body.[266]
The Doctor is pansexual, and a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey, who travels through time and space in her transcendental time machine: the TARDIS.[266]
Cassandra is a trans woman, and the last human. She was on a space station orbiting Earth in the year 5,000,000,000, set to witness the destruction of the planet by the expansion of the Sun.[266]
Missy is pansexual, and was the Doctor's childhood friend. She was kept prisoner by the Doctor for her crimes. In the end, she was killed by an older version of herself, whom she also killed.[266]
Sue is a lesbian, and an orphan brought up by pickpockets. She becomes Maud's maid only to try and rob her. It turns out she and Maud were swapped at birth.[269]
Maud is a lesbian, who will inherit a fortune when she marries, but through a convoluted set of coincidences and trickery, that is not what happens.[269]
Callie is bisexual, and in a romantic relationship with Erica, until Erica abruptly leaves the hospital. Shortly after, Callie establishes a relationship with Arizona.[270][271]
Erica is lesbian, and a cardiothoracic surgeon. She and Callie have sex, which blows Erica's mind, but not Callie's though. Erica was last seen walking into the parking lot.[270]
Eliza is lesbian, and a consultant hired by fictional Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital to revamp their surgical residency program. She has a relationship with Arizona.[272]
Taryn is a lesbian, and is a surgical intern, with a crush on Meredith Grey.[282][283]
Cece Colvin
Caroline Clay
Cece is a lesbian, and is a matchmaker who boasts an 85% success rate. She's had two heart transplants and is waiting on a third.[284]
Aliyah Hamed
Sade Benyaminov
Aliyah is a lesbian. When she learns that her girlfriend, Jessica, is going to be sent to a gay conversion camp by her mother, they attempt suicide by train together. They both survive the impact and are sent to Grey Sloan Memorial.[284]
Allison is lesbian, and was Teddy's roommate in New York City back in 2001. She also lived with her girlfriend, Clarie, but was having an affair with Teddy behind Claire's back. Allison ends up dying in the September 11 terrorist attacks.[284]
Bex Singleton
Becca Gardner
Bex's sexuality is undefined. She is intersexual, and came in to the hospital with a hormonal imbalance and was found to have a tumor. She was raised as a girl, but at the end of the episode, she was cutting her hair to possibly live as a boy.[284]
Toby Donnelly
Arielle Hader
Toby is non-binary, and they were brought to the hospital after being in a snowmobile accident. Their sexuality is undefined.[284]
Jess
Matt Pascua
Jess is a trans woman, who helps her boyfriend (who is also transitioning) reconcile with his father.[284]
Noah is gay, and an aspiring screenwriter, who was later hired by Brandy King of Paramount Studios to do a re-write of Wade's scripts "Bait and Switch". He is best friends with Alex, Chance, and Ricky.[287][288]
Alex is gay, and works as a counselor at the HIV Treatment and Prevention Center until quitting, and opens his own non-profit HIV-awareness treatment center called "Black Aids Institute".[287][288]
Ricky is gay, and the owner of a men's clothing store called Trade Analysis. Ricky is sexually promiscuous and has had sex with over 100 guys.[287][288]
Chance is gay, and an economics professor at a college. Noah's Arc made history as the first American series with a cast of all-Black and gay characters.[287][288]
Kim is a lesbian who is in love with her best friend Sugar. Kim attends a Christian group where she meets Beth and the two begin a brief relationship.[293]
Castiel confesses his love for Dean Winchester to save him, allowing himself to experience a moment of true happiness. However, Dean just watched stoically and did not reciprocate the same feelings.[295] The series was accused of queerbaiting fans with the interactions between Castiel and Dean for a long time.[296][297])
Roy and Shlatter are both gay and in a relationship. After Shlatter is tortured and murdered by a gang of drug dealers, Roy vows to get revenge on the gang who killed him, but ends up getting killed himself.[305]
Dale is a closeted gay Mormon, and undergoing reparative therapy to pray away the gay. He begins a secret relationship with Alby, and eventually commits suicide when his secret life is revealed.[307]
Nick is gay and a scholarship student at Oxford. His friendship with fellow student Toby Fedden (Oliver Coleman), leads to a post-graduation offer that Nick move into the Feddens' London mansion, to work on his thesis project. This series takes place in the 1980s.[320][321]
Wani is the closeted son of a Lebanese supermarket chain tycoon. Wani and Nick begin a secret relationship, while Wani supports Nick financially. Nick colludes in Wani's cocaine and sex-fuelled spiral of self-destruction. Wani later contracts AIDS, which ends the relationship.[320][321]
Leo is gay and is Nick's first lover after arriving to London. They eventually break up, and a few years later, Leo's sister visits Nick to inform him that Leo has died of AIDS. This three part series is an adaptation of the 2004 novel of the same name.[320][321]
Willa is a lesbian, and a reporter for the tabloid. She takes drugs, has one night stands, and befriends the mentally unstable, all to get the story.[351]
Carmelita is a trans woman, and a prostitute having an affair with Patrick Darling IV (William Baldwin), a United States Senate candidate. She is eventually killed in a revenge plot. Candis Cayne came out as transgender in 1996, and her role as Carmelita, makes Cayne the first transgender actress to play a recurring transgender character in primetime.[352][353]
Asher is gay, and was Eric's first sexual encounter with a male. They kept their relationship secret, because they were both in the closet at the time.[356]
Calvin is secretly gay when he arrives at college, but eventually comes out. He had a relationship with Heath on and off throughout the series, and at the end of the series, went to India with him.[359][360]
Heath is openly gay, and had several one night stands with Calvin. By the end of the series, Heath and Calvin are in a committed relationship and going to India together.[359][361]
Bill is a closeted gay executive at GM. He gets arrested for offering a blow job to an undercover officer, Hartley is badly beaten and humiliated by the police.[366][367]
Kenneth
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Kenneth and Hugh are a gay couple that Don encounters when he goes looking for an old girlfriend; they now live in the apartment where she used to live.[366][368]
Emily is bisexual. She was in a relationship with George Crabtree and dated Leslie Garland. In Season 8 episode "High Voltage", she meets suffragette Lillian Moss; and thereafter falls in love with her.[397]
Tig develops an interest in Venus Van Dam, shares a kiss with her, and tells Venus in the final season of the show, "You see all the bad in me but love me regardless; I've never had that and I want to be with you."[404]
Lafayette is a gay short-order cook, drug dealer and sex worker. He's in a relationship with Jesús Velásquez, and later starts a relationship with a vampire named James.[405][406]
Steve is gay and starts out as the leader of an anti-vampire Christian ministry. After he is made a vampire, he comes out to Jason Stackhouse as a "gay vampire American".[412]
Dave and Ian are in a committed relationship. Beginning in season 3, the couple purchases the local coffee shop together and are upgraded to series regulars.[416]
Janis is a closeted lesbian, and an FBI Special Agent, a double agent with the CIA, and also a mole, reporting to those responsible for the blackout.[420]
Sebastian is gay and the lead singer of the fictitious Dalton Academy Warblers.[421]
Jeremiah
Alexander Nifong
Blaine has a crush on Jeremiah, the assistant manager at a local Gap store. The Warblers accompany Blaine as he serenades Jeremiah with "When I Get You Alone", Jeremiah gets fired and snubs Blaine, in episode "Silly Love Songs".[426][427]
^Crook, John (April 16, 2006). "Shawn Pyfrom". Chicago Tribune. Pyfrom, who says he had no inkling Andrew would reveal himself as both devious and gay when he auditioned for the role.
^Epstein, Jeff (14 March 2006). "Playing It Gay, Now and Then". Out. Desperate Housewives, which boasts another unique gay character: Andrew Van De Kamp, played by Shawn Pyfrom. Andrew is TVs first gay sociopath, who also happens to be a teen with a very active on-screen sex life.
^Lee, Youyoung (October 17, 2007). "'Desperate Housewives' bad seed Shawn Pyfrom stops by EW". Entertainment Weekly. Regarding Andrew's open homosexuality, Pyfrom commented on receiving letters from fans struggling with their sexuality...he admitted the scene where he had to get naked in a pool and make out with another boy was taxing.
^Burke, Bill (19 July 2010). "Flame games". Boston Herald. Michael Lombardi's "Rescue Me" character used to be gay. Then he was bisexual. Now he's straight.
^Peck, Mathew Wace (31 August 2013). "British actor Russell Tovey lands his first major US role". Digital Journal. Till now, the 31-year-old's only major gay role has been in Doctor Who, where, as Midshipman Alonso Frame, he hooked up with Captain Jack Harkness.
^Ferber, Lawrence (4 December 2006). "Omid Abtahi". The Advocate.
^Hartinger, Brent (September 25, 2008). "Best. Gay. Week. Ever. (September 26, 2008)". NewNowNext. I wanted to know if Michael Rady...had ever played gay...and it turns out he was the lover of the gay terrorist on Sleeper Cell.
^Lyall, Sarah (15 June 2008). "Who Altered British TV? 'Who' Indeed". The New York Times. Mr. Davies used the same philosophy when Captain Jack came on the scene in Doctor Who, make it entertaining, not didactic. I thought, It's time you introduce bisexuals properly into mainstream television. What better way to introduce a charming bisexual character, he asked, than to make him an outer space buccaneer?
^Ramírez Alvarado, María del Mar; Cobo Durán, Sergio (2013). "La ficción gay-friendly en las series de televisión españolas" [Gay-Friendly fiction in Spanish television series] (PDF). Comunicación y Sociedad (in Spanish) (19). Guadalajara, México: Universidad de Navarra, Facultad de Comunicacion: 221. ISSN0188-252X.
Millward, Liz; Dodd, Janice G.; Fubara-Manuel, Irene (2017). Killing Off the Lesbians: A Symbolic Annihilation on Film and Television. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. ISBN978-1476668161.
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