List of gay characters in television explained

This is a list of live action gay characters in television (includes terrestrial, cable, streaming series and TV movies). The orientation can be portrayed on-screen, described in the dialogue or mentioned. Roles include lead, main, recurring, supporting, and guest.

The names are organized in alphabetical order by the surname (i.e. last name), or by a single name if the character does not have a surname. Some naming customs write the family name first followed by the given name; in these cases, the names in the list appear under the family name (e.g. the name Jung Seo-hyun [Korean] is organized alphabetically under "J").

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A–D

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CharacterActorShowwidth= Notes
The Walking Dead Aaron is the series' first gay male character, who has a partner named Eric.[1]
Spartacus In a relationship with Nasir.[2]
Caprica Sam is married to Larry.[3]
Kenny Al-Bahir The War at Home The best friend of the protagonist.
Alex Adam Faison Everything's Gonna Be Okay Nicholas' new boyfriend.[4]
Footballers' Wives Noah has a crush on the team captain, Conrad.[5]
Alistair Glee Spencer's boyfriend who joins the glee club.[6]
Drew Alister The Night Shift A gay doctor.
Wesley Alvarez Rudy Martinez Dear White People Wesley and Lionel Huggins have a relationship in season two of the show.[7] [8]
Glee Blaine is married to Kurt Hummel.[9]
Heath Anderson Greek He 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.[10]
Andrew Sean Saves the World Andrew is Sean's former boss, who he slept with.[11]
Matteusz Andrzejewski Class Has relationship with Charlie Smith.[12]
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt A gay actor struggling on Broadway.
Andy Andy is a prostitute who Dell Toledo fell in love with.[13]
Anwar Chaneil Kular Sex Education Anwar is Nick's boyfriend.[14]
Lucas Apert Stéphane Pitti Osmosis Lucas is a user of Osmosis, a beta dating app, that he hopes will help him with his boyfriend, and stop cheating.[15]
Dante's Cove One half of gay couple, Kevin's partner on the island is Toby Moraitis.[16] [17]
Phillip Ashcroft Quantum Leap A cadet is thrown out of military school for being gay.[18]
Luke Ashton The Bill In a relationship with Sergeant Craig Gilmore.[19]
Ryan McGuinnis Ugly Betty Justin Suarez is his boyfriend.[20]
Ron Bantz Doug Ballard Northern Exposure One half of gay couple that runs a bed and breakfast, partner is Erick Hillman.
Renly Baratheon Game of Thrones Is in a secret relationship with Loras Tyrell.[21]
Barnes Supernatural At the end of episode "The Real Ghostbusters", it is confirmed that he is in a relationship with Demian.[22] [23]
Thomas Barrow Downton Abbey His past relationship with the Duke of Crowborough is revealed in the first episode of season 1 and his sexuality remains part of his story.[24]
Emmerdale Finn reveals to Val Pollard that he is gay and has a crush on David Metcalfe.[25]
Dom Basaluzzo Looking A drama about the lives of a group of gay men in San Francisco.[26]
Dan Montgomery Jr. Wasteland A gay soap opera star determined to remain closeted so as to not jeopardize his public status as a sex symbol.[27]
Law Thompson Hollyoaks Noah is a fitness instructor.[28]
Sean Beasley The Playboy Club Sean is a gay rights activist on the show.[29]
Rusty Beck The Closer
Major Crimes 		In the season two finale, Rusty comes out as gay to Sharon.[30]
Scandal Cyrus is gay and married to James Novak, a political journalist.
Ben Ben and Susie are known by everyone to be an item, except Ben is gay and in a secret relationship with counselor McKinley.[31] [32]
Jack Benjamin Kings Jack is the closeted gay son of the king.[33]
Dr. Oliver Berg Laurence Penry-Jones Doctors Oliver is in a relationship with physiotherapist, Alex, but also had feelings for Ben.[34]
Sol Bergstein Grace and Frankie Sol and Robert are a couple.[35]
Henry Best Cucumber
Banana 		Henry is a gay middle-aged insurance salesman, happily settled with his boyfriend of nine years, Lance Sullivan.[36]
Ida Best Tales of the City Ida manages a burlesque bar that both Shawna and Margot work at.[37]
Roy Biggins, Jr.
(aka R.J.) 		Wings R.J. comes out to his dad, who challenges him to a game of one-on-one basketball on the condition that if R.J. wins he is allowed to be gay, but if Roy wins R.J. is not.[38] [39]
Erol Birkan Dogs of Berlin Erol is a Turkish gay policeman.[40]
Kyle Bishop Smash Kyle was in relationships with Blake, Tom and Jimmy.[41]
Stuart Bixby Vicious Stuart and Freddie Thornhill have been together for almost 50 years.[42]
Eric Black Judging Amy A gay teenager who had been so badly abused that he was blind for two years.[43] [44]
Billie Blaikie The L Word Billie is a queer party promoter.[45]
John Blaine Starsky & Hutch John picks up a gay street hustler who drugs and robs him.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Larry is a closeted gay, who finally comes out to Xander.[46]
Richie Blake The Secret Life of Us Midway through season one Richie realized he was gay.[47]
Stanford Blatch Sex and the City A gay cosmopolite, married to Anthony Marentino. Liza Minnelli sang at their wedding.[48]
Happy Endings An openly gay man who had a relationship with Grant.
Tony Du Bois Touched by an Angel Returns home to come out to his family and tell them he has AIDS.
Dr. Simon Bond Doctors [49]
Brad Bottig Brock Ciarlelli The Middle Brad comes out in season 7 to his best friend, Sue Heck.
Bouffant Let Them Eat Cake Bouffant is the private and flamboyant couturier to the Comtesse de Vache and representative of the Maison Bouffant.[50]
Edwin Bouwhuis Raynor Arkenbout Goede Tijden, Slechte Tijden [51]
John Bowers Kyle Clements Doom Patrol Larry's secret lover who also served in the Air Force.[52]
Queer as Folk (US) Drew was a closeted football player, who eventually came out.[53]
Brad Henry Zaga 13 Reasons Why After coming out as gay, Tony said that Brad was his boyfriend.[54]
Hollyoaks He is a sociopathic, self-loathing, homophobic gay man.[55]
Matt Wilson Neighbours [56]
Patrick Brewer Schitt's Creek Patrick comes out to his parents in the season 5 episode "Meet the Parents", and later marries David Rose in the series finale, "Happy Ending".[57] [58]
Brian Ideal Brian has several boyfriends.[59]
Brian Days of Our Lives Dated boyfriend Sonny Kiriakis.[60]
Tom Brisley Adam Ray Grange Hill [61]
NYPD Blue Gay police officer dating a fellow closeted police officer.[62]
Rory Brown Mrs. Brown's Boys [63]
Ben Bruckner Queer as Folk (US) Married to main character Michael, has HIV.[64]
Bryan Michael Galante Good Trouble Bryan lives in downtown Los Angeles and works as an event planner at the Standard Hotel.[65]
Russell Bryant After Henry He runs the Bygone Books shop, where Sarah works.[66]
Lifestories A gay TV anchorman loses his partner to AIDS and is HIV-positive himself.[67]
Caleb Burford Joshua Tan Mystic Caleb comes out to his friend, Issie.[68]
Billy Burns Emerson Brooks Uncoupled
Stranger Things (Schnapp confirmed in a 2022 interview that Will is gay and in love with his best friend Mike Wheeler.)[69]
Conor Byrne Glenn Mulhern Family Affairs [70]
Love, Victor An openly gay teenager, who works as a barista at the coffee shop where Victor works part-time.[71]
Roberto "Bobby" Cañero-Reed Charlie Bushnell Diary of a Future President The brother of Elena, who starts to develop feelings for a man named Liam.[72]
Being Human (UK) Carl is a gay vampire. He shares a flat with his human boyfriend Dan.[73]
Leon Carp Roseanne Roseanne's boss at the diner.[74]
Doug Carter Hollyoaks [75]
Hal Carter The Sandman [76]
Al Corley (left after season 2) Dynasty (1981) 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.[77]
Jack Coleman (started in season 3)
Dynasty (2017) Steven is openly gay. Sammy Jo was a woman in the original series, but in the reboot was made a gay man to be Steven's lover.
Nicholas Cordts (teenage Steven)
Paul Luke Bonenfant (as a child)
Sam Strike
Ted Reilly		EastEnders [78]
Owen Cavanaugh The Good Wife The gay brother of a lead character and had a boyfriend in the 2012–2013 season.
Charles A Series of Unfortunate Events [79]
Jeremy Chetri Wynonna Earp [80]
Johnny St. Clair Richard Seff The Rockford Files A wealthy gay man hires Rockford to retrieve his stolen art collection.
EastEnders [81]
EastEnders [82]
Gotham Talks about his love for Edward Nygma.[83]
Deran Cody Animal Kingdom [84]
EastEnders [85]
The Colbert Report Implied to be gay in several episodes. It was later confirmed on an episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.[86] [87]
The Kids in the Hall Commonly appears as a commentator delivering monologues directly to the camera about gay culture.[88]
Arthur Coleman Dan August In line for a job with the government, Arthur kills his lover Norman Sayles (portrayed by Martin Sheen), to prevent him from exposing Arthur as gay during his background check.[89]
Casualty [90]
Bryan Collins The New Normal David Sawyer's husband, who is trying to start a family with him.
Gordon Collins Nigel Cowley Brookside British soap's first gay character.[91]
Sam Colloby Casualty He formed a strong friendship with Adam who was also gay.[92]
Paper Dolls Conrad is a gay hairdresser.
Major Lance CorcoranThe Night ManagerCorcoran, 'Corky' for short, is Roper's right-hand man.[93]
The Borgias [94]
Corey Michael JohnstonTeen Wolf Corey's boyfriend is Lucas.[95]
Eddy Costa Jessica Jones Detective Costa is in a same-sex marriage and trying to adopt a child.[96]
Southland A gay police officer.
Alan J. Corbett Supernatural Openly displays feelings for Ghostfacers team leader Ed.
Noah's Arc Chance is one of four gay Black men in Los Angeles (The first series to feature an all-Black, LGBTQ cast).[97] [98]
Kevin Cozner Brooklyn Nine-Nine Captain Holt's husband.[99]
Ian Craig The Archers [100]
Ryan Crane Felicity Ryan comes out to his brother Noel, introduces him to his boyfriend, and announces they are having a commitment ceremony.[101]
Trent Crimm Ted Lasso Journalist for The Independent; his sexuality is discussed during the third season.
Craig Zimmerman Modern Family Is one of Mitchell and Cameron's gay friends.[102]
Mitch Crumb Crumbs Mitch is a white gay man.
Hugh Culber Is the partner of Paul Stamets.
Roger Curbishley Doctor Who Has an affair with the footman Davenport.[103]
Jesse D'Amato In Treatment [104]
Vince D'Angelo Will & Grace Boyfriend and later Will's husband.[105]
Soap [106]
Lieutenant Jim Dangle Reno 911! He is openly gay and sees no problem flirting with and trying to seduce straight men.[107]
Coco Davis The Golden Girls Coco was the girls best friend, and only appeared in the pilot episode.[108]
Felix Dawkins Orphan Black The gay brother of the protagonist.
Casualty Toby was a general practitioner, and worked in the emergency department of Holby City Hospital.[109]
Guillermo de la Cruz What We Do in the Shadows Guillermo comes out as gay to his family in season four, episode seven ("Pine Barrens").[110]
Montgomery de la Cruz 13 Reasons Why Monty is a closeted football player who becomes involved in a secret relationship with Winston Williams.[111]
In a relationship with Dylan Michalchuk.
Kevin Delaney ERSixteen year old male prostitute suffers from blood clots.
Michael Delaney All My Children Michael came out to his history class at Pine Valley High.[112]
Phil Delaney Queer as Folk (UK) A close friend of Vince and Stuart.[113]
Canton Everett Delaware III Doctor Who Canton got the blessing of a president to marry his black fiancé in episode "Day of The Moon".[114]
Demian Supernatural At the end of "The Real Ghostbusters", it is confirmed that he is in a relationship with Barnes.
Silas Dengdamoor Lee Majdoub Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Panto's boyfriend.[115]
Coronation Street Marcus started dating Sean Tully.[116]
Love, Victor Openly gay, Derek is Benji's boyfriend.[117]
Derrick Spencer Neville Days of Our Lives He flirted with Paul Narita on several occasions. He then played an important part in the developing gay love triangle involving Will Horton, Paul Narita and Sonny Kiriakis.[118]
Ted Dinard Dynasty (1981) Steven Carrington's former boyfriend from New York City.[119] [120]
Michael Patrick Lane Dynasty (2017)
Aaron Dingle Danny Miller Emmerdale [121]
Eldridge Dixon Dwain A. Perry Good News Eldridge enlists the pastor to help come out to his mother, but is surprised when his mother says she'd known that he was gay since he was nine years old.
Rodolfo do Vale Alejandro ClaveauxNada Será Como Antes [122]
Richie Donado Looking Patrick's boyfriend and love of his life.[123]
Jerry Dorfer Dream On During a bachelor party, Martin finds out that a childhood friend, Jerry, had a crush on him, and Jerry announces that his "first time" was with Martin.[124]
Ned Dorneget NCIS He said that he is gay in episode "Need to Know".
One Life to Live Billy comes out to Joey Buchanan. The character is the first openly gay teenager featured in a television series.[125]
Jack Downey The Fosters Shares a kiss with Jude.
Dino Doyle Mrs. Brown's Boys Dino is a hairdresser, and the partner of Rory Brown.[126]
Quantico Openly gay CIA recruit.[127]
Hollyoaks Mitchell Deveraux is his boyfriend.[128]
Ray Stewart Barney Miller Openly gay recurring character, his partner is Marty Morrison.
Carey DubekThe Other Two The lead character, and an aspiring actor.
Kenneth Du Beke Benidorm Kenneth is a gay hairdresser who doesn't apologize for his behaviour.[129]
Frasier Frasier unwittingly asks Tom, the openly gay station manager, out on a date during the second season.[130]
Richard DurbanLaw & Order An openly gay city councilman is murdered by a colleague, a right-wing councilman.[131]

E–H

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CharacterActorShowwidth= Notes
Eddie Looking Agustín's boyfriend and later husband.[132]
Alex Edel Deutschland 86 He works alongside Tim, an American G.I. based in West Berlin who is also gay.[133]
Russell Edgington True Blood Russell is a manipulative, angry, gay vampire king of Mississippi who killed without abandon.[134]
Blane Edwards In Living Color Art pundit offers commentary filled with crude puns on books, films, and television.[135]
Eric Effiong Sex Education Best friend of Otis.[136]
Arnold Eliot Sam Schacht N.Y.P.D. (1969) A successful gay producer is killed in his apartment.
Hank Eliot Brian Starcher As the World Turns Hank made television history in 1988 when he came out of the closet, making him the first gay male on daytime TV.[137]
Terry Eliot Trapper John, M.D. A gay patient is treated for AIDS.[138]
Grant Ellis Greek Calvin gets a new roommate and is assigned Grant, who comes out to him and at first is in a secret relationship with him.
Roc On a visit home, Russell comes out and announces he is getting married.
Eric Gus Kamp No Good Nick Eric kisses Jeremy in "The Big Mitt" and later tells him that his parents already knew he was gay.[139]
Georg Eschweiler Claus Vinçon Lindenstraße Carsten Flöter was his partner.[140]
Neighbours Gino owned the local hair salon.[141]
Damon Evangelista Pose [142]
Bernd Fabrius Holger Stockhaus Mit Herz und Handschellen [143]
Howie Fairbanks The L Word [144]
Gabino Falcón Someone Has to Die Gabino is a young closeted gay man in 1950s Francoist Spain.[145]
Tom Farrell James Dreyfus Gimme Gimme Gimme Tom is a constantly out of work actor, who manages to get only bit parts, usually as an extra, on television.[146]
Dustan Farrow Brandon Claybon Danger Force A team of kid superheroes in training help reunite a lost child named Ellis with his parents, Dustan and Justin Farrow.[147]
Justin Farrow Tommy Dickle
Gavin Featherly The Brittas Empire Gavin and his partner Tim, were the first openly same-sex couple to ever appear in a British comedy on the BBC.[148]
Fabio Fedeli Baby Brando wants to keep the fact that he's gay a secret.[149]
David Ferrán Física o Química Despite his initial hostility, he ends up being Fer's boyfriend.[150]
Melrose Place When he comes out, he is physically assaulted and fired from work because of his sexual orientation.[151]
Jason FigueroaPeter Rini Orange is the New Black Husband of Natalie Figueroa, assistant warden of Litchfield Prison.[152]
Leonard Finch Grantchester Leonard is a closeted Anglican curate in 1950s England. He loves Daniel Marlowe.[153]
Don Finlayson Number 96 He was a lawyer who had several boyfriends. Don was the world's first regular gay character to appear on a television show.[154]
James Finley Gone James is a computer hacker and part of Novak's task force.[155]
One Life to Live In a relationship with Kyle.
Six Feet Under David often relied on Keith, an openly gay black police officer, to help him find acceptance and strength to take over the family business.[156]
Daybreak A gay self-styled rōnin, in a relationship with Turbo Pokaski.[157] [158]
Home and Away He was the first openly gay character in the show.[159]
Matteo Florenzi Michelangelo Fortuzzi Druck Initially struggled with his sexuality, but later came out as gay. In a relationship with David Schriebner.[160]
Florian Alex Rich GLOW Florian died from an HIV/AIDS-related illness.[161]
Carsten Flöter Lindenstraße [162]
EastEnders Fred and Mick become good friends, but despite their closeness, Fred feels unable to tell Mick that he is gay.[163]
Bill Forbes The Vampire Diaries He lives with his partner Steven, in Georgia.[164]
Shortland Street Jamie is a paramedic, and the soap's first openly gay character.[165]
Neighbours Aidan is a love interest of Chris Pappas.[166]
Emmerdale [167]
The Fosters Jude develops romantic feelings for his best friend Connor Stevens, and they begin dating.[168]
Chris Finch Coronation Street He was in a relationship with Todd Grimshaw.[169]
George Fraley Profiler Openly gay computer hacker, a member of the Violent Crimes Task Force.[170]
Alonso Frame Doctor Who He hooked up with Captain Jack Harkness.[171]
Lost
Hernando Fuentes Sense8 His first date with Lito Rodriguez was spent at an art museum in Mexico.[172]
Dynasty Has a relationship with Steven Carrington. Luke was killed in the "Moldavian Massacre".[173]
Bert Gaffer N.Y.P.D. (1967) Blackmailers target homosexuals, Bert cooperates with police to catch them.
Shameless UK Kash Karib is his long-term boyfriend, though he has a relationship with Sean Bennett, and an ongoing relationship with Micky Maguire.[174]
Shameless US Ian is involved in a sexual relationship with Kash Karib. Later he starts a relationship with Mickey Milkovich, and marries him.
Mr. Gallant Throughout his life, his grandmother Evie Gallant has tried to make him the perfect gay.[175]
William "Butch" Gamble Normal, Ohio Gamble was an average blue collar guy who loved football and beer.[176]
Samuel Garland Tales of the City An elderly gay man who volunteers with a group called Rainbow Readers.[177]
George and Gordon Hot l Baltimore Middle aged couple living together. One of the first gay couples to be depicted on an American television series.[178]
Henry Calvert
Gilmore Girls Is planning to adopt a son with his husband, Frederic.[179]
Sgt. Craig Gilmore The Bill He is the first openly gay Sergeant and police officer in the show's history.[180]
Mr. Robot Goddard is Elliot Alderson's boss at Allsafe, a cybersecurity company, and a gay man.[181] He is later killed by a Dark Army assassin in the season 3 episode, "eps3.8_stage3.torrent."[182] [183]
Ethan Gold Queer as Folk (US) Violin player, had a short-lived relationship with main character Justin Taylor.
John Goodwin Smash Tom is his new boyfriend.[184]
Andi Mack Cyrus is in a relationship with TJ Kippen. It is the first gay relationship on Disney Channel, and Cyrus is the first gay main character.[185]
Elliot Goss Search Party Eliot is coming to terms with his sexual orientation. He is also a self-diagnosed narcissist who is particularly good at detective work.
Grant Happy Endings Max's ex-boyfriend; they start dating again after they run into each other on Valentine's Day.[186]
Albert Grant Big Love Having struggled with his sexuality, Albert develops feelings for Dale Tomasson.[187]
Neil Grayling He's a master manipulator and will do anything to get the man he wants.[188]
Love, Victor Simon's boyfriend, appears in episode 8 when Victor goes to New York.[189]
Eddie Gregg Hill Street Blues Eddie was a gay prostitute whom Belker originally arrests, then befriends.[190]
Marshall Gregson United States of Tara He's openly gay, and not once do we see him shy away from who he is.[191]
Coronation Street A gay man.
Guinness Henderson Wade Guinness has a gay biracial relationship with Edward Philippe Mott, a wealthy 18th century eccentric.[192]
Nate Gurney Scott Haining Waterloo Road Nate is a former student at Waterloo Road, and openly gay. He falls in love with Josh.[193]
José "Joey" Gutierrez Juan Pablo RabaAgents of S.H.I.E.L.D. An Inhuman recurring character who was revealed to previously have had a boyfriend.
Naveed Haider Gurjeet Singh Ackley Bridge He comes out in series 2, and has a short relationship with Matthew in series 3.[194]
Thomas Hamilton Black Sails Thomas is a relationship with Captain James Flint.[195]
T.J. Hammond Political Animals T.J. is the first openly gay son of an American President.[196]
Adam Hampton The John Larroquette Show Police officer Hampton comes out as gay.
Oliver Hampton How To Get Away With Murder A recurring gay character in a relationship with a law student named Connor.
Tae-joo Han Han Gi-chan Where Your Eyes Linger The sole heir of a powerful chaebol family, and in a romantic relationship with his bodyguard.[197]
Chicago Hope Comes out to Dr. Shutt in the fourth season.
NoHo Hank Barry He was revealed to be gay in season 3 and is in a relationship with Cristobal.[198] [199]
Robert Hanson Grace and Frankie After having an affair with his law-partner Sol for 20 years they finally come out to their wives and children to marry each other.[200]
EastEnders [201]
Harrison Matthew Risch Tales of the City Harrison is Mouse's ex-boyfriend.[202]
Harry Mike & Molly He announces he is gay after a failed date with a woman.
Michael HarperGabriel Thomson My Family Michael comes out to his parents, and tells them that he has been in a relationship with a guy for some time.[203]
Shane Harvey Faking It Is openly gay from the pilot and has a boyfriend named Pablo.
Hollyoaks James and Ste have a sexual relationship.[204]
Ryan Hayes Special Ryan has cerebral palsy. He is also an unpaid intern at Eggwoke.
Tom HeinrichRoberto CapassoIn a relationship with Mike Majewski. After Heinrich is abused and accidentally put into a coma by his homophobic friends, Majewski begins to kill them out of revenge.[205]
24 Richard is revealed to be gay after being tortured for allegedly being a part of a terrorist organization.[206]
Alex Henley Sam Jackson Skins He kisses Matty Levan in one episode.[207]
Mason Hewitt Teen Wolf Mason is dating Corey Bryant.[208]
Carter Heywood Spin City Carter is the openly gay minority affairs liaison.[209]
Lionel Higgins DeRon Horton Dear White People A gay and black student who struggles to find where he fits into university life.
Jacob Hill Abbott Elementary A gay elementary teacher who is initially open with his sexuality but takes time before opening up about his partner with his colleagues and students.[210]
Erick Hillman Northern Exposure One half of gay couple that runs a bed and breakfast, partner is Ron Bantz.[211]
Louis Hines John Fleck Murder One Police secretary.[212]
Hollyoaks Catholic priest has an affair with gay student John Paul McQueen.[213]
Ken Hodges Casualty Clinical nurse specialist.[214]
Clayton "Clay" Louis Hollingsworth The Golden Girls Blanche's gay brother, engaged to a man.[215]
Curtis Holt Arrow Curtis is the husband of Nick Anastas.[216]
Ray Holt Brooklyn Nine-Nine A gay commanding officer of the 99th police precinct.
Queer as Folk (US) Emmett is particular closest to Ted Schmidt, and notable for his airy witticisms and flamboyant fashion sense.[217]
Scott Hope Buffy the Vampire Slayer Scott came out in college.[218]
Days of Our Lives Will is the second gay character to join the soap opera.[219] [220]
Guy Wilson
Howard Hamilton Von Watts Dharma & Greg Dharma befriends Greg's poker buddies, and discovers that Howard is gay and has a crush on Greg.[221]
Dr. George Huang Psychiatrist who works with the Special Victims Unit; his sexuality is briefly mentioned.
Colin Hughes Ted Lasso Footballer for AFC Richmond. He comes out during the third season.[222]
Glee The first main gay character of Glee. He is Blaine Anderson's boyfriend, and marries him.
Desperate Housewives Bob and Lee move to Wisteria Lane.[223]

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CharacterActorShowwidth= Notes
90210 He has a relationship with Teddy Montgomery.
Robbe IJzermans Willem Herbots WtFOCK Openly gay and dating Sander Driesen.[224]
Shane Ince James Midgley Cutting It Shane works as a senior stylist in the salon, and has a reputation for being catty.[225]
Jack Alice Mel's friend Jack, an ex–professional football player, comes out to Alice.
Jack Uncoupled
Kenny James Gregg Binkley My Name Is Earl A recurring character in this show.
Stanley James Uncoupled
Jared Svetlana [226]
Bernard Jasser LA to Vegas Bernard is a gay flight attendant.[227]
Strangers with Candy He is in a secret love affair with Mr. Noblet, the history teacher.[228]
Jesus / Paul Monroe The Walking Dead Paul, otherwise known as "Jesus," came out as gay in episode "The Other Side."[229]
Steve Jinks Warehouse 13 A gay Warehouse agent in Season 3.
Joe Steven W. Bailey Grey's Anatomy A gay man, whose partner, Walter, made guest appearances throughout the series.
Jacob Joffe Chicago Hope Nineteen year old Hasidic Jew comes out to his father.
Lucas Jones General Hospital A periodically recurring character in this drama.
Dynasty (2017) Has a one-night stand with Steven Carrington.
Stuart Alan Jones Queer as Folk (UK) [230]
Warren Jones This Life He regularly visits a therapist who encourages him to embrace his sexuality and tell his friends.[231]
Josh Please Like Me Openly gay, and dates several men throughout the series.
Round the HorneJulian and Sandy were notable for being two stereotypical camp homosexual characters in mainstream entertainment at a time when homosexual acts between men were illegal in the United Kingdom.[232] [233]
Kenneth Williams
Desperate Housewives Justin comes out to Gabrielle; he is also Andrew's first boyfriend.[234]
Kang-gook Jang Eui-soo Where Your Eyes Linger Bodyguard to the sole heir of a powerful chaebol family, and in a romantic relationship with him.
Kash Karib Shameless UK Kash is his only long-term boyfriend, and also his married boss. When Kash's wife finds out, she insists it remain a secret.[235]
Shameless US Ian is involved in a sexual relationship with Kash, owner of the Kash and Grab, where Ian works.[236]
Glee He kisses Kurt, revealing his sexual orientation and has a short romance with Blaine.
Richard Katimski My So-Called Life An English teacher at Liberty High School, and facilitates the Drama Club.[237]
Major Bill Keane, MD The Andromeda Strain Keene is a specialist trying to discover the secrets of a lethal pathogen.[238]
Riverdale Kevin is openly gay.[239]
Emmet Kelley Bryan Clark Grace Under Fire Grace's father-in-law Emmet comes out to her, and admits a 15-year relationship with his partner.[240]
Sara Dennis is an openly gay lawyer in the series.
Tom Kenderson Cheers Tom is an old friend and baseball teammate of Sam, he announces in his forthcoming autobiography that he is gay. Sam is supportive of him, but the bar's regular customers fear that because of Sam's support of Tom, the bar will become a place full of homosexuals.[241]
Nico Kim Grey's Anatomy Nico is an openly gay surgeon at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.[242]
Kimon Levi MeadenOlympus Kimon is Lykos' scribe.[243]
Brent AntonelloHit the Floor Jude is in a relationship with Zero.[244]
Queer as Folk (US) Brian is the soulmate of Justin Taylor.[245]
Neighbours Nate is openly gay, having known from an early age.[246]
TJ Kippen Andi Mack Cyrus Goodman's love interest; first gay romance on Disney Channel.[247]
Days of Our Lives Sonny is the first gay character introduced in this soap opera, and later had a romance with Will Horton.
Emmerdale Jason is the first openly gay man to appear in Emmerdale.[248]
Casualty Marty is openly gay.[249]
Ross Korolus Our Hero Ross is one of the best friends of main protagonist Kale Stiglic, who discovers that he is gay during the course of the series.[250]
Leo Kraft Henning Baum Mit Herz und Handschellen [251]
Kravitz The Adventure Zone In a long-term relationship with Taako.[252] [253]
Nate Kulina Kingdom Nate is a closeted gay MMA fighter.[254]
Malcolm Laffley Beggars and Choosers Malcolm is a closeted gay.[255]
Jim Lahey Trailer Park Boys Jim is openly gay.[256]
Lucas Lallemant Axel Auriant SKAM France Openly gay and dating Eliott Demaury.[257]
Inspector Dave Lambert The Streets of San Francisco A gay detective must come out to convict a drug kingpin.[258]
Emmerdale Paul is openly gay.[259]
Call Your Mother Jackie's gay best friend and roommate.[260] [261]
Agustín Lanuez Looking Married to Eddie.[262]
Tony Larkin Dear John Tony comes out to John and tells him that he is in love with him. When John tells him they can no longer be friends, Tony makes a huge scene in a restaurant.[263]
Julius Chapple Caprica Larry is married to Sam.[264]
Joseph Lasile Kings Jack's clandestine boyfriend.[265]
Dr. Robert Lawrence Mark Benninghofen Chicago Hope A gay resident interested in specializing in neurosurgery.
Michael Lawson Uncoupled Michael is newly single in New York.[266]
Oliver Lawson This Life (2015) Natalie's gay brother comes home when he hears about her illness.[267]
Kyle Lendo The Class He is a first-grade teacher, and lives with his boyfriend, Aaron.[268]
Lenny This Life (1996) Lenny and Ferdy end up in bed together.[269]
Leon Andrew Langtree Coronation Street Leon is a gay bodybuilder, and in a relationship with Sean Tully.[270]
Leslie Paul Wittenburg Blossom Joey gets a letter from his secret admirer, which turns out to be his gay teammate.[271]
Tom Levitt Smash Tom is an openly gay composer.[272]
Duke Lewis, Jr. Skyler Maxon Faking It Duke was in the closet until his ex-boyfriend Shane Harvey outed him.[273]
One Life to Live In a relationship with Oliver.
Will Lexington Chris CaramckNashville A hopeful country music star, he is attracted to other men. He remained a series regular.
Shadowhunters Alec is attracted to Magnus Bane, which helped him come to terms with his sexuality.[274]
Rick Lincoln The Night Shift He is Drew Alisters boyfriend.[275]
The Wire Omar is an openly gay stick-up man who robs drug dealers for a living.[276]
Mateo Fernando Aquino Liwanag Nico SantosSuperstore Mateo is an openly gay wholesale warehouse employee.[277]
Lloyd Entourage LGBT Asian-Pacific Islander.
Ollie Lloyd Keiynan LonsdaleDance Academy Ollie is a talented and arrogant dancer who dates fellow student Sammy Lieberman.[278] [279]
Modern Family Is one of Mitchell and Cameron's gay friends.
David Walliams Little Britain Sebastian is an openly gay aide to the prime minister.[280]
John Ducey Oh, Grow Up Comes out after leaving his wife.[281]
Alan Lowenstein Bryan Safi Young & Hungry In the season 2 finale, Alan marries Elliot.[282]
Lucas Eddie Ramos Teen Wolf Lucas has a boyfriend named Ethan.
Luke Ideal Brian's boyfriend in Series 3.[283]
Luke The Middle In season 9 episode "The Other Man", Luke is involved with Brad Bottig.[284]
Lukewarm Porridge Openly gay inmate, got his nickname from working in the prison kitchen and always preparing tepid food.[285]
Kevin Lynch Los Beltrán One half of gay couple, partner is Dr. Fernando Salazar.[286]
Jamal Lyon Empire Jamal has a boyfriend named Michael.
Prince Lykos Wayne Burns The Prince is in a relationship with Kimon.

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CharacterActorShowwidth= Notes
Country Mac It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Country Mac is gay. Mac invites along his cousin, Country Mac, in episode "Mac Day", where each gang member gets their own day to do whatever they want with no complaints from the others. When they visit a gym full of bodybuilders, Mac insists the gang help oil them up. Country Mac is happy to assist, revealing to the gang that he is gay.[287]
Macca Drew Dillon Hollyoaks Macca tells Ste about his sexual relationship he had with Brendan.[288]
Eric "Mac" MacFarlane E.N.G. Mac came out to his co-workers and brother after threatened with being outed.[289]
Neighbours Is a builder who worked with Doug Willis.[290]
Shameless (UK) In a relationship with Ian Gallagher.
Danny Mahealani Teen Wolf Is openly gay and in a relationship with Ethan.[291]
Mike MajewskiNils HohenhövelIn a relationship with Tom Heinrich. After Heinrich is abused and accidentally put into a coma by his homophobic friends, Majewski begins to kill them out of revenge.
Lev Malinovsky Casualty Lev opens up a gay dating app and reads a message from someone asking to meet up.[292]
Kit Mainwaring Mark Wheeler Dallas J. R. blackmails Kit, the closeted gay son of an oil magnate, into marrying his niece, to unite two of the city's most powerful oil families.[293]
Queer as Folk (UK) Openly gay 15-year-old schoolboy.[294]
Donald MaltbyBrothers Cliff's openly gay best friend, and a book editor.[295]
Alex Manes Roswell, New Mexico Alex, a disabled vet, is in a relationship with Michael Guerin.[296]
ManiSinchronicityMani is a gay Doctor who's in a relationship with Jase.[297]
Vijay Maraj Dante Scott He had a short romance with Tristan Milligan.[298]
Anthony Marentino Sex and the City Anthony is an event planner, and married to Stanford.[299]
Mark Doogie Howser, M.D. Vinnie is disturbed to learn Mark, his college roommate, is gay.[300]
Scott Marsh Nathan Brine My Family Michael's first boyfriend, after coming out.[301]
Ben Marshall Tales of the City Mouse's love interest.[302]
The Office Oscar is an LGBT person of color.
EastEnders Parents disowned him after coming out to them.[303]
Mateo Dickie Hearts Tales of the City Mateo is an openly gay deaf butler obsessed with cleanliness.[304]
Kevin Matheson Looking Has an affair with Patrick, one of his employees.[305]
Seb Matthew-Smith Seb is the partner of Carlos
As the World Turns Noah is in a romantic relationship with Luke.
Billy Mayhew Coronation Street Openly gay, and has been in relationships with Paul Foreman and Todd Grimshaw.[306]
Ted Mayo Michael Hitchcock United States of Tara Openly gay neighbor of the family.[307]
Ronny McCarthy The McCarthys A gay man in Boston with a strict Irish Catholic family.
Desperate Housewives Lee and Bob are the first gay couple to move to Wisteria Lane.
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia In episode "Hero or Hate Crime?", Mac comes out and accepts that he's gay.[308] [309]
David McDowell The Tracey Ullman Show David and his partner William raise their teen daughter Francessca.[310]
William McDowell Sam McMurray
Will & Grace A white gay man.
Doctors Openly gay nurse.[311]
Colin McKenna Uncoupled
Kieren Hutchison Shortland Street Openly gay medical student.[312]
McKinley Michael Ian Black Ben is in a secret relationship with counselor McKinley.
Louis McManusPartners Louis is an openly gay architect.[313]
Jack McPhee Dawson's Creek He started a relationship with Doug Whitter.[314]
Hollyoaks One half of the supercouple, John Paul McQueen and Craig Dean.[315]
Raul Melendez ER First gay character in series, he is a paramedic.
Alex Mercer Julie and the Phantoms A ghost drummer who falls in love with a ghost skater named Willie.[316]
Antoine Merriweather In Living Color Art pundit offers commentary filled with crude puns on books, films, and television.
Openly gay and Marco Del Rossi's boyfriend.
Shameless (US) Is in a relationship with Ian Gallagher, and then marries him.
Nathan Miller Jarod JosephOpenly gay, in relationship with Eric Jackson.[317]
Lyle Lettau
He is in a relationship with Miles Hollinsworth III.
Matthew Silver
Morgan Whittle
Charlie Jones
Joshua Pascoe
Harry Reid
Max Bowden 		EastEnders Boyfriend of Paul Coker.[318]
Dean Monroe Fisayo Akinade Cucumber
Banana 		Openly gay.[319]
Peter Montefiore Thirtysomething Peter has a one night stand with Russell Weller.
90210 Despite his romance with Erin Silver, he ended up realizing his sexuality after a one-night stand with Ethan, and has a recurring love interest named Ian.
Travis Montgomery Station 19 An openly gay firefighter.[320]
Dante's Cove One half of gay couple, Toby's partner on the island is Kevin Archer.
Buddy Morgan That 70s Show Buddy was gay and had a crush on Eric.[321]
Barney Miller Openly gay recurring character, his partner is Darryl Driscoll.[322]
Edward Philippe Mott Mott, an 18th-century eccentric, has a gay biracial relationship with his servant, Guinness.
Michael Mueller Justin Louis ER Michael admits his partner has been beating him up.
Patrick Murray Looking [323]
Steven Myron Steve Agee The Sarah Silverman Program Sarah's gay neighbor and friend, who is dating Brian.[324]
Days of Our Lives The first love of long-time gay character Sonny Kiriakis and part of the first married gay couple on a US daytime soap.
Spartacus In a relationship with Agron.
True Blood [325]
Harry Enfield's Television Programme In one of the episodes, Dave comes out as gay.[326]
Nicholas Everything's Gonna Be Okay Nicholas is openly gay and raising his two half-sisters in Los Angeles.[327]
Hollyoaks Was dating his ex-boyfriend, John-Paul McQueen, and had an affair with Harry Thompson.[328]
Strangers with Candy He is in a secret love affair with Mr. Jellineck, the art teacher.
James Novak Scandal James is married to Cyrus Beene.
Queer as Folk (US) Marries Ben and adopts a teenager.[329]
Will O'Brien Adam Sinclair Mile High Gay flight attendant who worked for a budget airline.[330]
Fearghal O'FarrellMatt Lucas Come Fly With Me Gay air steward for a cheap airline.[331]
Skins Maxxie is a gay teenager who is proficient at several styles of dance.[332]
As the World Turns Dating Luke Snyder.[333]
Diego Olvera La Casa de las Flores [334]
The Real O'Neals Sixteen year old Kenny comes out to his Catholic family.[335] [336]
Colin Osborne Unforgotten Colin is married to Simon Osborne.[337]
Simon Osborne Charlie Condou
Patrick Osbourne Revenge Was married to a woman, later it was revealed he is gay.[338]
Greek Calvin is secretly gay when he arrives at college, but eventually comes out.[339] [340]
Max Owens The Hard Times of RJ Berger In the last episode he is caught kissing a boy in the school showers.[341]
Tony Padilla Christian Navarro13 Reasons Why Tony tells Clay he's gay in the eighth episode of season one.[342]
Jordan Waller Victoria [343]
Michael Byrne Coronation Street [344]
Cecil Gershwin Palmer Cecil Baldwin Welcome to Night Vale Cecil is a gay radio host who is married to Carlos.[345]
Bull Palmer is a gay former football player who consults with Dr. Jason Bull.[346]
Peter Panama The Corner Bar First recurring gay character on American television.[347]
James Mason Neighbours Aidan is his love interest.
Elliot Park Young & Hungry Elliot is Josh's openly gay assistant.[348]
An openly gay football player.
The Vampire Diaries Luke is an openly gay witch and student at Whitmore College.[349]
Michael Patel Champions An openly gay teenager moves from Cleveland to New York City to attend a performing arts school.[350] [351]
Patrick One half of a gay couple who owned a creepy home where Ben and Vivien now reside.[352]
Patrick Anger Management A gay passive aggressive patient.[353]
Alexander Perry Antony Cotton Queer as Folk (UK) Vince and Stu's friend.[354]
Bill Peterson Carter Country Bill is a teacher who comes out, and then gets fired by the school board, who passed a resolution banning gay teachers.[355]
Frank Pickle John Bluthal The Vicar of Dibley During a broadcast on Dibley radio he reveals that he is gay.[356]
Desi Piscatella Orange is the New Black Reveals to Piper Chapman he is proudly gay.[357]
The Bob Newhart Show Craig joins Bob's group therapy and comes out to the group, with mixed reactions from them.[358]
Wyatt PlankPartners
Daybreak The unhinged leader of the Jocks, and Fists' boyfriend.
Spencer Porter Glee A gay football player who has a boyfriend named Alistair.
Lance Powell The Bill Openly gay black police officer killed by the Sun Hill Serial Killer.[359]
Modern Family Married to Cam.[360]

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CharacterActorShowwidth= Notes
Eric Raleigh Jordan Woods-Robinson The Walking Dead Aaron's boyfriend. Woods-Robinson thanked LGBT fans before his character died.[361]
Martino Rametta Skam Italia Had a relationship with Niccolo Fares.[362]
Flaco Ramirez Juan Castano Tales of the City [363]
Blair Ramos Dead of Summer An openly gay counselor at Camp Stillwater.[364]
Benidorm Gavin and Troy are married.[365]
Paul Bazely
Hank Ranavich John Brennan The Commish A gay police officer witnesses a gay bashing outside a gay bar.[366]
Tommy Rankin Baretta Fourteen year old gay street hustler witnesses the murder of his friend.
The Flash Hearing impaired, openly gay villain.[367]
EastEnders In relationships with Tony Hills and Steven Beale.[368]
Neighbours He flirts with Aidan Foster and they later go on a date.[369]
Fernando Redondo Javier Calvo Física o Química Openly gay lead character.[370]
Dr. Dylan Reinhart Instinct Openly gay and recruited by the NYPD to help capture a serial killer.
Carlos Reyes Rafael Silva Carlos is a police officer in Austin. Love interest for TK Strand.[371]
Lafayette Reynolds True Blood In a relationship with Jesús Velásquez. He later starts a relationship with a vampire named James.
Scott Rhodes Phyllis Phyllis's boyfriend Scott comes out to her, but he wants her to pretend they are together to continue to pass as straight in front of his parents. Scott eventually comes out to them as well.
Richie Oscar Montoya Minx Openly gay to his co-workers at the magazine publisher where he photographs male nudes. Helps promote the company's new explicit feminist magazine in the gay community.[372]
Rico Felix D'Aluiella Doctors Married to Dr. Greg Robinson.[373]
Carlos Rivera Suddenly Susan Carlos pays a visit to his brother Luis, and comes out to him.[374]
Archdeacon Robert Rev. [375]
Cameron Roberts Peter O'Brien Queer as Folk (UK)
Ed Roberts Emmerdale [376]
Dr. Greg Robinson Ben Jones Doctors Married to Rico.
Lito Rodriguez Sense8 A famous actor in the closet, Hernando's secret boyfriend.
Carlos Rodriguez Carlos is the partner of Seb.
Mad Men A gay man in this dramatic series.
Marco Romero Revenge Nolan Ross's love interest.[377]
Silvio RomoD.J. Blickenstaff Dear White People Silvio is an openly gay student at Winchester University.[378]
Christian Barillas Modern Family Ronaldo is Pepper Saltzman's assistant and later husband.
Fred Rooney Archie Bunker's Place Archie is determined to set his gay waiter straight by setting him up with a woman.[379]
Michael Cashman EastEnders In a relationship with Barry Clark.[380]
Frank Rutger Too Close for Comfort Henry invites Frank, his former chief petty officer, over for dinner and finds out that Frank is gay, and has been living with his partner for 25 years.[381]
Glee He is revealed to be gay in season two.[382]
Agustus "Gus" Sackey Industry [383]
Dr. Fernando Salazar Los Beltrán One half of gay couple, partner is Kevin Lynch.
Marco Salazar 90210 In a relationship with Teddy Montgomery.[384]
Love, Victor A new student in high school, who comes out and dates Benji Campbell.[385]
Salim American Gods Salim has sex with Jinn. He is closeted.[386]
Sleeper Cell He is a closeted gay terrorist.[387]
Modern Family Is one of Mitchell and Cameron's gay friends.[388] [389]
Jack Samuels Samuels is in a relationship with Harrison Wilton, and had a one-night stand with Kai Anderson.[390]
Michael Sanchez Rafael de la FuenteEmpire He is the boyfriend of Jamal, the son of a renowned record producer.
Sanjay Weeds In the 2007–2008 season, Sanjay came out as gay.
Trapper John, M.D. An openly gay police officer is shot during a gay rights rally.[391]
David Sawyer The New Normal Bryan Collins' husband, who is attempting to start a family with him.
Falk von Schermbeck Dick Martens SK Kölsch [392]
Ted SchmidtQueer as Folk (US) Ted is openly gay and uncomfortable with his age.[393]
Grey's Anatomy
Station 19 		He works at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital. Gets together with Nico Kim in season 15.[394]
Scott Fred WillardRoseanne Scott is married to Leon Carp.[395]
Colin ScottChris Finch Waterloo Road Colin works for a capital management company and is the boyfriend of Matt Wilding.[396]
A Very English Scandal Norman was the secret lover of Jeremy Thorpe.[397] [398]
Sean Sean Saves the World Sean is a divorced gay father with a 14-year-old daughter.[399]
Ryan ShaverTommy Dorfman13 Reasons Why After coming out as gay, Tony said that Ryan was his ex-boyfriend.[400]
TJ Shaw Patrick Stafford Major Crimes Rusty confirms TJ is gay, but he is deeply closeted.[401]
Philip Shea Tyler YoungEyewitness Philip is an openly gay teen who moves to live with a new foster family.[402]
Kevin Sheffield All My Children When Kevin came out to his parents they disowned him and threw him out of their house.[403]
Benny Sherwood Wizards vs Aliens Benny comes out as gay.[404]
Rick Silardi Hooperman Openly gay police officer.[405]
Dean Silverman Gary Brun Home and Away Dean comes out and moves to the city with Gareth.[406]
Patrick Ward Jamie Johnson Dillon comes out as gay in series 5 when talking to Elliot.[407] [408]
Daddy's Girls First openly gay actor to play a gay main character, a fashion designer.[409]
Sir A Series of Unfortunate Events Sir and Charles are a gay couple who operate a lumber mill.
Dexter
Charlie Smith Class Charlies is an openly gay alien prince. (Doctor Who spin off)[410] [411]
Steven Roberts Hollyoaks In a relationship with Vincent Elegba.[412] [413]
Glee A character who has sexual interest in Blaine Anderson.
Legends of Tomorrow Citizen Cold is openly gay and in a relationship with the Ray.[414]
As the World Turns Luke is a gay teen in this soap opera who is in a romance with Noah.
One Life to Live Mark is dating Justin.[415]
Charles Spad N.Y.P.D. (1967) Openly gay businessman and activist, helps police with blackmailers.
The Sopranos Vito is a closeted gay mobster.[416] [417]
Robert Spencer Morgan Stevens (Miniseries) Robert is dating Tim, a professional football player.
Ted LePlat (TV series)
Love, Victor Openly gay, appears via voice-over, narrating messages to Victor, appears in person in episode 8.[418]
Spike Hollyoaks Spike is openly gay and is John Paul's first lover.[419]
Charlie Spring Heartstopper Charlie is a year-10 student who was recently outed. He forms an unlikely friendship with classmate and rugby player, Nick Nelson, who later becomes his boyfriend.[420]
The Sarah Silverman Program Sarah's gay neighbor and friend, who is dating Steve.[421]
Hank St. Clare Sirens Hank is openly gay, ex-military and a sports fan.[422]
Ugly Betty An openly gay character who has a relationship with Cliff.
Paul Stamets The first Star Trek character to be intended as gay from creation, and is the partner of Hugh Culber.
Stanley Denis O'Hare Stanley is a con artist.[423] [424]
Alex StantonAs IfOpenly gay character.[425]
Huw Bevan Family Affairs Clive suffered gay-bashing and homophobia from his older brother.[426]
Argiras Karras He is the openly gay captain and quarterback of the Degrassi football team.
Ethan Steiner Teen Wolf He's romantically involved with Danny and later Jackson Whittemore.[427]
Steve All in the Family Archie's friend Steve, an ex–professional football player, shocks him by telling him he's gay.[428]
Steve Reaper A gay demon trying to destroy the devil through acts of kindness.[429]
Connor Stevens Gavin MacIntoshThe Fosters In season 2, Connor comes out as gay, shares a kiss with Jude and the two begin dating.
Clark Stevenson Awkward Is in a relationship with closeted gay Ricky.[430]
Josh StevensonWaterloo Road Came out as gay.[431]
James Stinson Wayne BradyHow I Met Your Mother He the gay brother of Barney.
Frank Stone Colin Parry Dream Team Is outed as gay.[432]
TK Strand Ronen Rubinstein TK is in a relationship with Carlos Reyes.
Sam Strickland Smash Boyfriend of Tom[433]
Ugly Betty Comes out by stepping onto the dance floor at a wedding with his boyfriend.
Jimmy Sullivan Unforgotten Jimmy was the gay lover of Eric Slater.[434]
Lance Sullivan Cucumber Lance was killed off in episode six.[435]
Ben Sutherland The Mary Tyler Moore Show Ben visits his sister Phyllis, Mary's neighbor, and comes out to Rhoda.[436]
The Adventure Zone He is in a long-term relationship with Kravitz.
ER Yosh is an openly gay nurse.[437] [438]
Queer as Folk (US) 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.
Ryan Taylor Tinsel Town His boyfriend is Lewis Reid.[439]
Pray Tell Pose Pray is an HIV-positive ballroom MC and is afraid to share his diagnosis with others.
Legends of Tomorrow Revealed to be in a relationship with Citizen Cold.
Terry ER A gay street hustler refuses treatment for AIDS.
Dr. Ben Teverly Medical Center A gay research scientist becomes the target of a smear campaign.[440]
Thomas Sheldon Best Manifest Thomas fled Jamaica intending to reunite with his boyfriend later.[441]
Little Britain He's the only gay in his village.[442]
Thomas Jeff Seifer ER A gay patient with AIDS doesn't want surgery, he later dies.
Darren Thompson Danny Horn Emmerdale Darren has HIV.[443]
Harry Thompson Hollyoaks Closeted gay.[444]
Jeremy Thompson Kalama Epstein No Good Nick Jeremy comes out as gay to his family in "The Box Job".[445]
Freddie Thornhill Vicious Freddie has been in a relationship with Stuart Bixby for almost five decades.
A Very English Scandal Thorpe is a closeted homosexual who had affairs with men.
Tim Tim has a relationship with Marco.
Michael "Mouse" Tolliver Tales of the City (1993) Mouse is the gardener and gay confidante of Laura.[446]
Tales of the City (2019)
Tony Reaper In a relationship with Steve.
Simon Trader The Secret Life of Us The gay barkeeper.[447]
Larry Trainor Doom Patrol A gay superhero.[448]
Lionel Trane United States of Tara Marshall's boyfriend.
Panto Trost Christopher Russell Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Silas' boyfriend.
Hotel Babylon Ben is the flamboyant, openly gay front desk receptionist at the hotel.[449] [450]
Will & Grace He had a lot of romantic relationships, finally marries Vince D'Angelo.
Modern Family Mitchell Pritchett's husband and Lily's adoptive father.
Coronation Street A gay man.
Mickey Tupper Dream On Martin's dad comes out to him after Martin observes Mickey and his roommate acting like a married couple. Mickey later leaves his partner and moves in with Martin.
Dennis Tyler True Dare Kiss Dennis is openly gay and runs a house for dogs.[451]
Britannia High [452]
Vince Tyler Queer as Folk (UK) A supermarket manager
Mike Tynan Lou Grant A gay detective investigates a fire at a gay bar.
Loras Tyrell Game of Thrones In a secret relationship with Renly Baratheon.[453]

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CharacterActorShowwidth= Notes
Richie Valentine Threesome Alice and Mitch have a drunken threesome with their gay best friend Richie.[454]
Isak Valtersen Skam Came out as gay in the third season and is in a long-term relationship with his boyfriend Even.[455]
Desperate Housewives Andrew is the devious and gay son of Rex and Bree Van de Kamp. Justin was his first boyfriend.[456] [457] [458]
Gossip Girl He is outed by Georgina Sparks.[459]
Rickie VasquezMy So-Called Life The first openly gay actor to play an openly queer character in a leading role on network primetime television series.[460] [461]
Jesús Velásquez True Blood Lafayette's boyfriend.
PC Jake Vickers Cuffs Openly gay protagonist who develops a relationship with lawyer Simon Reddington.[462]
Lukas Waldenbeck James PaxtonEyewitness Lukas is a closeted teen living in a conservative small town.[463] [464]
Dylan Walker Eli Brown Grew up in a small town as an out gay kid.[465]
Brothers & Sisters Gay lawyer, later married with Scotty Wallden.
Gus Wallace Rene Rosado Major Crimes Rusty and Gus fall in love, and begin a relationship.[466]
Jason Rush EastEnders Joe is a young gay chef who is HIV-positive.[467]
How To Get Away With Murder A law student who is in a relationship with Oliver.
Emmerdale In a relationship with Aaron Livesy.[468] [469]
Jamie Walsh Wreck Jamie is in a relationship with Olly.[470]
Scotty Wandell Brothers & Sisters Kevin Walker's boyfriend and later husband.
Chad Warwick The openly gay former owner of the creepy home where Ben and Vivien Harmon reside.[471] [472]
Cliff Waters Brothers Cliff comes out on his wedding day.[473] [474]
Andrew Watson Neighbours A gay school teacher bullied by his students.[475]
Eliot Waugh The Magicians The gay king of a fantasy realm.[476]
Peter Webster The Book of Daniel A white gay man.
George Weiss Kevin Hill A gay nanny.[477]
Thirtysomething Gay friend of Melissa's who met while she was photographing a wedding. Russell has a one night stand with Peter Montefiore.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Andrew is a member of the Trio, and is able to summon and control various demons.[478]
Party of Five Gay music teacher, made TV history by adopting a baby.[479]
Jackson West Titus Makin The Rookie Jackson is in a relationship with Gino Brown, a hospital nurse.[480] [481]
Jason West Robert Wilfort Gavin & Stacey [482]
Ben Wester Beverly Hills, 90210 Ben is a gay teenager, thrown out of the house, living in the car wash garage, where he is befriended by David Silver.
Richard Ely M*A*S*H George tells Hawkeye that he was beaten up by soldiers from his unit after he got drunk and inadvertently admitted to being gay.[483]
Lawrence WhiteEmmerdale [484]
Edgar Wield David Royle Dalziel and Pascoe [485]
Terry Wilcox Rob Youngblood Coach Terry comes out to Hayden's daughter. When Hayden finds out that one of his players is gay, he has a hard time treating him like one of the guys.[486]
Chris Geere Waterloo Road A closeted gay musician.[487]
Winston Williams Deaken Bluman In relationship with Monty, a closeted football player.
Willie Julie and the Phantoms A ghost skater who falls in love with a ghost drummer named Alex.
Josh "White Josh" Wilson Crazy Ex-Girlfriend White Josh is gay.[488] [489]
Josh Wilson Weeds He is a weed dealer, and having a gay affair with an older man.[490]
Harrison Wilton He has a relationship with Jack Samuels.
Glen Wingfield Desperate Housewives Lynette's stepfather comes out as gay, revealing the real reason he left her mother 20 years ago.[491]
Dawson's Creek Has a relationship with Jack McPhee.
Mr. Wolfe Suburgatory Mr. Wolfe came out as gay halfway through the show's first season.
Dr. Asher Wolke The Good Doctor He is a former Hasidic Jew, who became an atheist after leaving his community and is also openly gay.[492] [493]
The Real O'Neals Kenny's first boyfriend.[494]
Zeke Brian Byers Family Zeke gets arrested in a raid on a gay bar, his father throws him out, Doug and Kate take him in.
Hit the Floor Zero is in a relationship with Jude.
Barney Miller Someone wrote an anonymous letter threatening to reveal that one of the cops is gay, Zitelli tells Miller it's him.[495]

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  2. Web site: Peeples . Jase . The Gay Action Hero on Spartacus is Back Tonight . . January 24, 2013.
  3. Web site: Jensen. Michael. Caprica"'s Jane Espenson: "It's Time For Sexuality to be Incidental. AfterEllen. January 23, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100125134157/http://www.afterellen.com/people/2010/01/afterelton-jane-espenson-interview. January 25, 2010.
  4. Web site: Greene . Steve . 'Everything's Gonna Be Okay' Doesn't Hide Its Feelings, and That's Just What Josh Thomas Wants . . March 12, 2020.
  5. Web site: Plunkett . John . Gay sex scenes axed from Footballers' Wives . The Guardian . March 17, 2004.
  6. Web site: Swift . Andy . Glee's New Recruit Talks Romancing Spencer, Singing Darren Criss' 'Rise' . TV Line . March 6, 2015.
  7. Web site: Occhi . Feature: Rudy Martinez Talks Dear White People, Wood Boy Dog Fish, and Puppetry . Occhi Magazine . May 23, 2018.
  8. Web site: Rosner . Bennett . 8 LGBTQ+ Characters Who Teach & Inspire Us . TV Insider . October 17, 2020.
  9. Web site: Glee's Darren Criss—Kurt's New Squeeze?—Describes His Character as "Tom Ford-ish." Perfect!. Berk. Brett. HWD. November 9, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20160413144118/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2010/11/darren-criss-battled-a-bear-to-get-on-glee-and-now-he-and-the-bear-are-very-good-friends. April 13, 2016.
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  11. Web site: Hughes . Jason . Craig Ferguson Disturbingly In Love With Sean On 'Sean Saves The World' . HuffPost . November 22, 2013.
  12. Web site: Doctor Who spin off 'Class' actors open up about their relationship onscreen. November 19, 2016. PinkNews. August 3, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20200214171358/https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/11/19/doctor-who-spin-off-class-actors-open-up-about-their-relationship-onscreen/. February 14, 2020.
  13. Web site: Cotter . Padraig . Every Character Matt Bomer Played On American Horror Story . ScreenRant . December 1, 2020.
  14. Web site: Brathwaite . Lester Fabian . The 'Sex Education' Douching Episode Is Required Gay Viewing . . January 31, 2020.
  15. Web site: Berlatsky . Noah . Netflix's Osmosis is Black Mirror without the tech paranoia . The Verge . en . March 26, 2019.
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  18. Web site: Dellamonica . Alyx . Quantum Leap: "Running For Honor" . . December 21, 2010.
  19. Web site: No cooing over The Bill's gay police kiss . Irish Independent . August 25, 2002.
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