He felt strongly about playing a gay character coming out of the closet.

He has decided to come out just as he is about to play a gay character in a film.

The show had one of network television's first running gay characters.

One night my parents were watching a television show that featured gay characters.

A new kind of gay character has been turning up in movies.

Maybe more important, these gay characters are central to the action.

Though both deal with gay characters and concerns, they're otherwise very different.

These are some of the best gay characters ever written.

And I don't think it means that a straight writer shouldn't write gay characters.

But it is also felt in programs that have no major gay characters at all.