What are the current TV shows with gay male characters? Part 5

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Tres Caminos has a closeted gay character.

Amazon Prime Exclusive has a released a new Spanish Teen horror drama mystery show that features gay, lesbian, and bi characters. However, no gay content, a brief bi encounter on screen, and - of course - lesbian romance between two young girls. The gays have some non-gay related screen time.

However, the show has so many hot guys, a lot of shirtless scenes, a few brief ass shots and the overall drama, horror and mystery is pretty great.

Netflix's The Irregulars has a gay character twist.

The show can be described as a teen version of Penny Dreadful with a bit of Doctor Who in it. Maybe even some Bidgerton if you consider its diverse cast.

Lesbians are a dime a dozen these days. Easier to list shows that DON'T have some lesbian character somewhere in there.

I was surprised that the animated "The Great North" show on FOX Sundays had a matter-of-fact, no-big-deal gay teen storyline, where this girl has a crush on this new guy, and asks him to the equivalent to the Sadie Hawkins dance, but he only has eyes for her brother, and when she goes to the bathroom at the dance, the new guy and the brother hook up and make out on the dance floor. Nobody says a thing about it other than the girl being upset her "date" likes someone else.

I was kind of impressed by that. Of course, since then, they haven't really touched on that character's sexuality and the 'new guy' hasn't really been seen much since. But still.

R3, I just binged the whole 8 episode first season this weekend. It's a nice enough mystery show but is pretty slim on the gay and lesbian front. I mean there's little there but people shouldn't expect much. I enjoyed the show for the mystery and for the hot guys, and actually probably the hottest and the nastiest man in the show is gay, although he has zero gay scenes. Still, it gave his character depth.

I assume the leads were meant to be teenagers but at least some, like Manuel and Paul, are played by people in their mid 20s, and that's just fine by me. BTW, the show is classified for 16+ here so it's not exactly a teen show.

A special mention for the many VPL's of Joel Bosqued who plays a music teacher. It's so rare to see proper trouser snakes on TV shows these days that I had to take a second look when he showed it the first time.

Amazon's animated series Invincible has a gay character. He is pretty much a gay version of Stiles from MTV's Teen Wolf, the non-super human BFF sidekick of the lead (a frustrated teen who has a superhero as dad).

It's a pretty funny show.

Follow-up to r7. The character is voiced by DL fave Andrew Rannells.

Netflix's Shadow & Bone

SPOILER: The gunslinger Jesper, Kit Young, makes out with a stable boy in episode 5.

Watching Who Killed Sara reminded me of another tv show from Mexico with a gay storyline. El Juego De Las Llaves is an Amazon prime show from Mexico. Valentin is the hot gay character. It ended with him getting fucked on a pool table and his wife walking in on them.

I knew it had been renewed for season 2 but hadn't heard anything else, so I googled it. Apparently season 2 doesn't have a premiere date, just that it will be sometime in 2021. The article also talked about a season 3, so I assume it's been renewed for at least two more seasons. PS: it also features Maite Perroni, famous from RBD. She's a queen. Love her.

Here is the trailer for season 1.

MODOK has a gay character. He kisses his partner in the finale episode.

Hap and Leonard, on Netflix.

One of the main characters is gay, with a boyfriend. And yes, they fuck.

This summer should be good. A couple of weeks until the second season of Love Victor, then there's the Gossip Girl reboot in July.

One of the minor characters in Panic is gay and making out with a guy in episode four. The show has some hot male eye candy with Mike Faist, Ray Nicholson, Bryce Cass (13 Reasons Why), Jordan Elsass (from Superman and Lois) and hot daddy Enrique Murciano.

The new Gossip Girl trailer looks interesting.

The Australian murder mystery show Eden features gay (and lesbian) characters. It stars AHS' Cody Fern and Keiynan Lonsdale (The Flash, Love Simon).

Don't know if it counts, but Netflix's campy soap The House of Flowers is back as a movie special.

Young Royals on Netflix is very good and worth the watch.

Two gay storylines from Latin America: Café con aroma de mujer and Enfermeras.

I have just watched the 41 first parts of Enfermeras. The gay storyline is ok. It hits every single telenovela trope though. It's very dramatic and OTT. I was so frustrated I almost gave up at one point. Glad I didn't, because it turned out better than expected in the end. I will give this tv show kudos for being from Colombia and not having stereotypical gay characters. They even get to kiss!

The game of the keys season 2 will premiere September 16th on Amazon Prime Video. Valentin is thr gay character.

Animal Kingdom on TNT.

Deran Cody played by Jake Weary.

Deran and Adrian...

Walking Dead: World Beyond.

Main character "Felix" is played by Nico Tortorella. His boyfriend is Will.

Walking Dead's "Aaron" played by Ross Marquand (left).

His boyfriend was Eric, but they killed him off.

On-screen though, they never really did anything more than hold hands. They were more like "friends" than boyfriends.

This kissed only once.

Walker (played by Jared Padalecki) on the CW.

Keegan Allen plays Walker's gay brother "Liam."

The new Leonardo DiVinci tv show.

Gossip Girl on HBO Max.

Male bisexual character.

Liam Gallagher and Mickey Milkovich on Showtime's "Shameless."

Played by Cameron Monaghan and Noel Fisher.

Although the series ended earlier this year.

Michael Cimino in Hulu's "Love, Victor."

And just in case you wanted to know, someone (or group of people) compiled a comprehensive list of all the gay characters on all television shows in history!

Rofl.

This year is being bad for gay male representation (idrc for bi's)

R26, your link isn't working... try again?

This is Valentin, the gay character.

Can you see this, R33?

Jared is on the left and Keegan Allen (the gay character) is on the right.

Yes, that works fine.

New season of American Horror Story: Macauley Culkin was in the first episode playing a barfly prostitute who tried to hook up with/offered his services to Finn Wittrock after encountering him in a Cape Cod restaurant. Finn declined the offer.

All the slots for gay characters are now filled with the "trans", "non-binary" and "queer" characters, all embodied by freakish and "other" presenting characters, and all of them dreary and sour. This is puzzling, as most gay people look and act a lot like everybody else and many have nice personalities!

See? We've been doing it all wrong!

Found this on youtube. It's from a Mexican telenovela.

Just watched the 4 first episodes of season 2 of The Game of Keys. Spoilers ahead:

Not happy with Valentin's storyline. He barely gets any screen time and when he does it's all about coming out. His mom is a bitch for accepting him yet trying to in him by telling his dad his wife's baby is his when it's not. Ugh. Such a stupid trope. Another thing that annoyed me was the lack of gay sex while every episode had several minutes of lesbians kissing and having sex. In those 4 episodes there was only one gay kiss and zero gay sex scenes.

This Buscando a Frida

Netflix's latest animated series Chicago Party Aunt has Daniel, voiced by Rory O'Malley, who moves in with his crazy, trashy aunt Diane, voiced by Lauren Ash (Superstore). Features also Jon (Superstore) and Ike Barinholtz (Mad TV, The Mindy Project, Suicide Squad) and RuPaul.

The latest season of Netflix's Sex Education was released last Friday. It's pretty gay.

And, that's maybe a bit off topic, but Brooklyn Nine Nine finished its run with a rather heartwarming gay wedding ceremony (before the final two part episodes about the ultimate and final heist)

NBC premiered a new show called "La Brea" with a ridiculous premise: a giant sinkhole opens in LA and a group of people who were sucked down find themselves in a strange world full of prehistoric beasts. Anyway, there's an interracial couple - a black lawyer type in a suit and his white boyfriend/husband, who wears a lumberjack jacket.

The Big Leap on Fox features multiple gay male characters, including openly gay Broadway actor Adam Kaplan.

There are NO gays on tv now, only QUEERS!

Valentin went full frontal on El Juego De Las Llaves. They didn't show him having sex with his hookup, they were kissing then kissing again in bed the morning after. I wonder if Valentin just hooked up with that guy once or if he will now be his love interest. I actually wouldn't mind him as a love interest. I think he would ground him, Valentin might get cut off from his dad after coming out. He needs some stability and someone to pull him down back to earth after being a spoiled rich kid.

R44 OMG, it’s like Land of the Lost!!! Will they find Marshall, Will and Holly? Chaka? The Slyeestack? I’m almost interested, there was a young actor on TikTok yesterday saying everyone laughed at him last year arriving in LA having graduated from college with no acting prospects as they got great jobs, but now he’s landed a series and his giant chubby butt is now highlighted on billboard in the Grove, so basically they can all suck it. I don’t think he’s the gay character though. He said they filmed in Australia.

[quote] He said they filmed in Australia.

During the pandemic? It should be quite difficult to film any more seasons there while Australia has closed its borders.

Season 12 of "The Great British Bake Off" started recently -- there's a Trinidadian contestant who has a UK partner.

Nuclear Family on HBO is a three part docuseries about Lesbians having gay men donate sperm so they can have children, but then it becomes a legal battle. There’s a thread about it.

Part 4 has lots of room. If you can't post to it then just wait until you can, go post to another thread or... shocking I know... cough up the huge sum of $2.00 a month to post on a website you use every fucking day of your life.

What the fuck? Cheap freeloader cunts.

R51 Who the fuck cares about lesbians?

I do

R54 Start your own "What are the current TV shows with lesbian characters" thread then

I hate to be bitchy, but I started the very first of these threads years ago specifically to find shows that featured gay men, not Ls or Ts.

[quote]I hate to be bitchy

Bless.

New Amsterdam started off tonight's episode with two guys kissing in bed, so that's progress I guess.

Pretty Smart on Netflix just came out and has Michael Hsu Rosen playing a stereotypical gay influencer (ala Benito Skinner)

The new season of Grey's Anatomy has a gay couple; nerdy doctor and handsome Asian doctor. They also added a rather large gay man to the show. He's part of the new crop of interns.

I'm re-watching earlier seasons of Grey's on Lifetime weekday mornings. I had completely forgotten about Callie (Sara Ramirez) and Arizona (Jessica Capshaw).

I’m guessing Scott Speedman unfortunately IS NOT one of the Gay men?

R61 He's Meredith Grey's love interest.

R60 Really wish they would give Nico and Schmitt more screentime.

Thank you, R62. I couldn't remember the character's names.

Oh dearing myself at R63. That should be 'characters' names.'

I added Grey’s Anatomy back to my DVR automatic recordings a couple of seasons ago when Nico and Schmidt came on, but now that they are in the background I have deleted it from my lineup.

However, I am madly enjoying the show that precedes it, Station 19.

AMC+'s KIN features Aiden Gillen (Littlefinger on Game of Thrones and Stuart in the original Queer as Folk) as Frank Kinsella, head of a crime family who's gay. The first or second episode had him getting a blowjob from a bartender he picked up. Subsequent episodes show him texting with guys and receiving shirtless pics. I don't know how much they'll dwell on him being gay.

One of the characters on SyFy's SURREALESTATE is gay and they've shown his husband but the character isn't a huge component of the series.

Re: The Big Leap, mentioned above.

I saw one episode and there are several attractive gay men featured, and what might be a budding romance between two of the male dancers. It’s on Fox. It’s mindless but distracting enough.

I'm only mentioning current shows or upcoming shows.

Below Deck. This season has a gay male stew and it looks like there might be a budding romance between him and the bi (?) male deckhand.

Current Spanish shows with gay characters: Todo lo otro HIT season 2

Upcoming shows: Rebelde will premiere in January 2022. I'm not 100 % positive, but it looks like this remake will have gay/bi male characters.

I'm watching an episode of Midsomer Murder, it has a gay couple. Also, a shirtlerss Winter!

Anyone seen Acapulco on Apple TV+ ? There’s a camp sidekick who’s obviously gay and in the last episode the main characters sister made out with her friend.

Maybe I’m reading it wrong but the main character Maximo also seems really gay.

R70 Nothing worse than coded characters or characters who may or may not be gay

The Long Call is a recent miniseries that was on ITV and also streaming on Britbox for people outside the UK. Starring gay actors Ben Aldridge and Declan Bennett as a married couple.

R72 I'm really pretty shocked that they said 'GAY community' and 'representation of the GAY male couple' because it's all about "LGBTQIAPPP+" and "Queer" now, especially in the UK.

Ben Aldridge never said that he's gay, but "LGBTQIA+" member, also he never mentioned the word "gay" in his twitter and instagram.

R73 He may not have labeled himself when he initially came out, but it seems like at the very least everyone is saying he's gay.

[quote]"We filmed on World Pride Day this year, in June, in this beautiful cottage with the most incredible view out to the sea. Me and Declan, who plays my husband, were filming a kiss. Lee – the director – said, ‘This is so significant. This kiss happens in the first minute of the show.’ It’s ITV, and it’s mainstream, and it’s a married gay couple. And it was a gay director and two gay actors. It was something I never thought I would experience as an actor, so there’s a lot to celebrate.”

The new version of "Dexter" just dropped. Now he lives in a small town and works for a gay middle-aged hunting supply store owner, who has a husband and who are in the process of picking out a puppy together.

[Quote] who are in the process of picking out a puppy together.

This takes more than one episode?

They should make his teenage son gay R75

Legacies on CW seems to be finally getting it's first gay male characters with gay actor Zane Phillips recurring as a supposed potential love interest of one of the male characters on the show.

Clip of the character's reveal

Wait, what? The werewolf guy on Legacies is gay? I have watched the show since episode one and it was never mentioned before.

Apparently he's going to come out and I guess there was a casting call a while back looking for a male love interest for one of the male characters.

Netflix released a new German drama series called Kitz. It's about the high society ski retreat area in Kitzbühel, Austria. It has gay characters in its main cast. The show has a bit of an Elite (Spanish Teen soap) vibe, but the cast of this show seems a bit older. It's about a girl investigating the disappearance of her brother (not a unique premise, I admit).

I'm not sure if anyone cares about foreign dramas but A Royal Affair based on a real story about the Swedish king is to premiere today on NRK.

Here is the trailer. Hope it's not geo blocked.

Gay twink Aled has left Welsh soap People of The Valley but possible gay twink Aaron has aroused questions from his parents,who want to know whether or not he has a girlfriend.

Maybe not what the thread is asking for specifically, but Father Brown season nine episode six features gay characters and - SPOILER ALERT! - a happy ending for them.

R38 Sabrina killed off the cousins boyfriend off screen and never had him hookup with any other male character, and they had that little girl that claimed she was a boy date a man and called it a gay couple, all this coming from a gay show runner. I'm glad that shit show got canceled.

I just want to say thanks! for this thread. My new years resolution was to watch only shows and movies starring gay people and characters. Preferably as the main characters and not just the gay best friend. This topic has been very helpful.

I don't watch it myself and it's been on for a couple years, but the CBS sitcom 'B Positive' has a gay character played by Darryl Stephens

This telenovela has a gay couple. One half played by DL fave Lambda Garcia.

Watch from 8:06. Gabriel le confiesa a Alejo que es gay

Netflix released a Portuguese show called Summer Heat, about late teens at a beach resort. One of the main cast is gay. It also features Jorge López, who was in the second season of Netflix's Spanish TV soap Elite.

Japanese mini series Mood Indigo from several years ago which I believe has spun off at least 2 sequel series.

Just finished all 3 seasons of "Hap & Leonard" on Netflix. One of the main characters is gay, but it's rarely an actual plot point, it's just something that is.

Also, "The Old Guard" is a fantastic movie on NetFlix with gay characters that are actually in love and kiss and everything. A sequel is in the works.

R88 Then you don't have many options to watch. Gay characters are few and far between. Meanwhile lesbians are overflowing on tv. Wonder why...

Straight men love lesbians

[quote] Then you don't have many options to watch.

There are more than enough options out there. Unlike you, I have life beyond obsessing about watching gay themed only entertainment. As it is, I have trouble finding the time to watch all the gay themed content there is.

My apologies, I have a life beyond obsessing about watching only gay themed entertainment.

R93 I thought it was a start of a japanese gay porn lol, not bad.

Ironically porn does plays a part on the show R99.

R90 I don't like so soap operas much but Lambda Garcia deserved a equally hot actor to play his boyfriend, not this fuggo. What a waste.

It looks like Davi Santos' character on Good Sam is gay and just had his boyfriend introduced.

The new British period drama from BritBox called Hotel Portofino features a gay character in the main cast. It stars Natascha McElhone (You only work in a shop, you know, you can drop the attitude!), Anna Chancellor, and Adam James (I May Destroy You, Belgravia). British drama in the Italian Riviera.

Craig Wesley on Days of Our Lives has been having an affair with a man

According to Wikipedia the new ABC series 'Promised Land' has a gay male main character.

R105 "An epic, generation-spanning drama about a """Latinx""" family vying for wealth and power"

*barf*

I will be very surprised if that gay male don't end up with a tranny.

Matt Ryan played a bisexual John Constantine on Legends of Tomorrow. When Warner Brothers pulled the plug on the CW’s use of the character, the show brought the actor back as a new character, Gwyn Davies - the scientist who invented time travel. The character is gay but very conflicted about it as a devout Catholic from the year 1925.

Davi Santos plays gay on Good Sam.

R108 Yep, mentioned it above. His character also just proposed to his boyfriend in the last episode

Cute

Aww!

These don't sound very interesting. And you'd have to subscribe to cable to see them.

Come to think of it, whenever there has been a 'gay sitcom'- they are outnumbered by straight characters.

R112 A lot of those shows are cancelled or have ended already. Plus for some reason they have 'It's a Sin' listed twice. Some likely don't even have gay male characters anyway.

This show has a gay character, and he's gorgeous!

Mood Indigo looks good! Will watch. I need something different after that terrible London Spy ending.

I am referring to R93's gay Japanese Mood Indigo miniseries of course! (NOT the straight French movie).

Does anyone know if Davi Santos and the guy who plays his boyfriend are dating? They're obviously both gay and they seem close. I just can't figure out if they're just trying to play up the romance to get people to watch, or if it's genuine.

R117 That would be great if they were. At the very least it looks like Stephen likes photographing Davi.

Another shot of Davi by Stephen

The British murder mystery Magpie Murders, based on the same named book, has been released recently on BritBox. It's a great show with the absolutely divine Lesley Manville as the female lead. On the show the author, who dies under mysterious circumstances, is a bitter sourpuss who came out late in his life and has a boy toy.

Colton Haynes has showed up as a gay dad for an episode of the girls friends show Dollface on Hulu.

One thing is for certain...

Don't expect to see any Greg Berlanti shows on this list.

Dude hates gay men with a passion.

r122, that's a lie, and you know it.

Berlanti's CW superhero shows have gay characters. Like Matt Ryan's Doctor Gwyn Davis on Legend of Tomorrow or Echo Kellum as Curtis Holt / Mr. Terrific on Arrow. Then minor recurring characters like Patrick Sabongui's Captain David Singh in The Flash.

A bi sexual, a gay man who married then quickly lost his husband and left the show and a side character who has only appeared roughly 20% of the entire show's run with a line or two per episode.

Meanwhile starring roles for femme muff divers, bulldaggers, chicks with dicks, bisexuals (females only, please)....

r124, so you have to downgrade your "none at all" hyperbolic temper tantrum to a "not enough" issue. You are really good at presenting your case. *two thumbs up*

^Robbie Rogers

r126, I'd rather be him than you begging for someone to shit in his mouth. Loser.

Why would I beg for someone to shit in Robbie's mouth?

Strange.

in your mouth, my bad, I guess.

OK, you win. I'll beg for someone to shit in your mouth.

Walking Dead - World Beyond (last season)

This is Going to Hurt on BBC. It'll be on AMC in the US at some point later.

One Of Us Is Lying on Netflix. Cooper is gay.

R133 Based on the YA novel?

One of Us Is Lying was released last year on Peacock. Don't know why it's showing up on Netflix all of a sudden. There is supposed to be a second season, I believe. The first season covered the book, but had a different ending.

R134 Yes.

Promised Land

Sweet Magnolias

The show 'Why are you like this' which is on Netflix

who's the gay character in Sweet Magnolias?

R140 I don't watch the show but this is one of the few things I could find regarding gay characters on it

Hacks

Matt Ryan gay character Gwyn on Legends kissed his boyfriend Alun that he has been trying to save in the newest episode. Although there was a twist with this.

Kung Fu on CW has a gay male character, and it looks like they'll give him a love interest in the new season

Did anyone mention Gilded Age yet? Baranski's son is a gay

On Emmerdale, Ethan Anderson's love interest is apparently going to be the village's newcomer, Marcus Dean.

On Casuality, Nurse Marty (r) has been seeing social worker, Adi (l), who's now suggested they get a flat together.

The Tuxedo.

ITV's Holding, based on the Graham Norton novel, features a gay male character, a lesbian couple, and a campy little boy.

It's a rather suspenseful murder mystery dramedy . It stars Conleth Hill (Littlefinger from Game of Thrones), Siobhán McSweeney (Sister Michael from Derry Girls), and Charlene McKenna. Kathy Burke (Gimme Gimme Gimme, Magda on AbFab) is directing the series.

So sorry, Conleth Hill played Lord Varys on Game of Thrones, not Littlefinger.

This telenovela has a gay storyline.

This is relevant to folks who use Roku: The streaming device has a dedicated channel where they show original programs and announced a new show called "The Newsreader". It stars Anna Torv and Sam Reid, and the description reads: In the cutthroat world of TV news, most of the drama happens off-air. You’ll be instantly wrapped into this story of a grand, unconventional relationship in a world on the cusp of change. Dale and Helen’s relationship plays out against the backdrop of extraordinary current events of the time, including the Challenger Disaster, Halley’s Comet, the AIDS crisis and more.

It also explains that Reid is playing a closeted gay man in the era when AIDS was becoming a worldwide news event.

Another one I just found

With Love

El primero de nosotros

R152 - Thanks! I will check it out👍

He’s very tertiary, but in the series Better Things, which is in its final season now, there is an avuncular Gay best friend to main character.

Gays on a German tv show

There's a new show on HBO called "Our Flag Means Death" - the latest production from Taika Waititi. His other show "What We Do in the Shadows" is a pretty funny take on vampires living on Staten Island, and this show is a throwback comedy involving pirates on the high seas. The plot is: foppish sea captain meets a more seasoned, rugged captain on a voyage. Soon, the macho captain is teaching the meek guy how to be a real ruler of the seas. Taiki is playing the manly pirate - don't know the actor playing the poofy captain.

I've only seen one episode so far, but apparently these two dudes end up in a relationship (with at least one kiss) after a few episodes. I've also read that some of the other sailors are in M/M relationships, which were considered normal back in the day when men were trapped on boats for months at a time.

R159 is late to the party. "Our Flag Means Death" is the gayest show on TV. Period.

Also, the lead Pirate, the foppish captain, is based on a real life guy who abandoned his family to go be a pirate, and literally called himself "The Gentleman Pirate", and he really did form a friendship with Blackbeard.

Also, that actor was in the What We Do In The Shadows movie, and he was in Flight of the Conchords as the hapless manager (you should watch that series if you haven't).

Anyway, "Our Flag Means Death" takes a few episodes to find its footing and get going, but by episode four it's HILARIOUS and really, really good.

And yeah, there are AT LEAST four gay characters in that show. AT LEAST.

The lead in Our Flag Means Death is Rhys Darby, hilarious voice actor and actor in general. He played a supernatural creature trapped in a human's body in a The XFile episodes a couple of years back.

R160 You nailed it. I watched a couple of eisodes but thought it was kinda boring. Then I continued watching and I'm glad I did because it only got better. My only gripe with the show is that despite it being very gay and it having quite a few gay characters, they STILL managed to tone down the gayness. As in, there isn't a lot of gay affection. Sure, there is some, but not enough. I know it's not that kinda show where you can expect explicit sex scenes. That is not what I'm talking about. I just found it annoying that the straight couple got a bed scene yet the gays didn't, that's all. Oh well, I hope it will be even gayer next season if it's renewed.

There will be a Season 4 of Doom Patrol coming this summer. Hope Negative Man will find a lover.

Elite season 5 was very gay. And very hot. Well worth the watch.

r164, I'm going to watch it this weekend. Can't wait.

Just started watching Orphan Black. The main character's "brother" is a flaming gay man. Who apparently likes bears.

R166 I just saw a TikTok announcement that Orphan Black in some form is returning, to excited to speak!

R167 But will there be gay content? As in gay MALE content? Probably not.

I’m still hoping that in season two of the Gilded Age that CKB’s real life brother AKB plays her character’s long lost brother who comes to the mansion and works in the carriage house and has a roll in the hay with George Russell.

Andres and Albin from the Mexican telenovela Pasion de Gavilanes 2

Has no one mentioned that the latest season of Elite that just dropped is the Gayest yet?

r171, r164 has mentioned it.

No one mentioned it because Elite's been on for 5 seasons and has always had a gay character/storyline.

R173 But it was mentioned, see R164.

The new goofball pirates series Our Flag Means Death seems to be getting gayer every episode. I've just finished the fifth episode and the scribe has decided to "start acting like he's cute" and to be the ship's mattress, and the other pirates are very appreciative of his skills. Plus it appears there is a romance brewing between Blackbeard and the ship's captain.

Yeah, keep watching. It gets even gayer.

Blackbeard is very hot. I like his leather outfit.

R177 Yes! Taika Waititi is making me feel things in his pirate drag.

Italian drama show The Ignorant Angels from Disney+ (wait, what?) by Ferzan Özpetek (Hamam - Turkish Bath, Mine Vaganti, A Magnificent Haunting).

Following the death of her husband in a car accident, Antonia discovers that he was having an affair with a man named Michele. At first devastated by the news, she finds herself building an unexpected friendship with this man she had never heard of. They both learn to know each other, to accept each other, to understand each other. Antonia thus discovers her husband's other family made up of friends with unusual lifestyles and different sexual identities.

Looking at these recent TV shows with gay/bi male characters just proves even more that Agron and Nasir from Spartacus was ahead of it's time.

Vast majority of them if they get one kiss is already a lot, but ofc, the same sex F/F have everything as always.

R180 Yes. I have been saying this for years. Showrunners have a problem with gay men. They barely get any screentine and if they do they are mostly just asexual, or get to kiss a single time. They certainly never get to have sex like the lesbians. That is why I have to give kudos to shows like Elite. It might not be an Emmy or Golden Globes worthy show, it's a primetime soap with soft porn scenes. But it never tries to be something it's not, which is mindless fun. It's entertaining. And the gays ACTUALLY get to have a love life, with boyfriends and even sex! You don't see that on other shows. I don't get why other showrunners don't include more gays on their shows. Elite got popular because of the gay characters, yet other showrunners don't have the balls to do the same, they'll include lesbians instead. Shame.

Unfortunately, most "from gays for gays" entertainment doesn't last very long (like, HBO's Looking, for example). Of course, Will & Grace was an exception, but was that really "from gays for gays (only)" entertainment? Most entertainment success comes from ensemble shows where there's one gay character in the main cast, having the occasional gay romance plot. It's quite rare that a gay couple is part of the main cast (911 - Lone Star, for example), but as they are ensemble shows they get maybe one or two storylines per season.

However, this thread series is a treasure trove of gay themed entertainment. And you can fall down a rabbit whole watching gay themed story edits from all sorts of ensemble shows on YouTube.

I hear they're rebooting "Queer As Folk"...

R183 Yes but it's less gay and more LGBTQ+

I know I've seen at least one man in the promo pictures for that. Will he be bisexual, or the straight boyfriend of someone angsting about revealing her transition?

This scene was very sweet and the two actors are HOT. Hottest gay couple I've seen on tv in a while, except for Elite probably.

R183 I might watch it. I'm starved for gay content. I fear the worst but hope for the best. Maybe it will be better than I think. As long as they don't have gay men fucking a trans, I'm cool. If a bi guy fucks a trans that's ok as bi guys are attracted to vagina.

Hot couple.

I know I'm searching for unicorns, but: any programs with gay men over the age of 30?

There's a gay ghost on Ghosts

R186 One of the boringiest gay couple that I've seen on a tv show, they doesn't even kiss.

If both were female a sex scene would already happened, shame.

R191 It's a telenovela. What do you expect? It's a given they don't get to kiss. They still make a hot couple. Wish they got more scenes though, they were barely featured in the last 10 episodes :(

We got a new gay character on Good Sam. I don't want to spoil too much if people haven't watch, but the new gay character is hot and he's a doctor! Yay! Not sure if they just made him gay to further Tim and Joey's storyline though, like do they actually have any plans for him? Oh well, either way I'm glad they made him gay. Just knowing we have a new gay character on the show is good. I'm praying for a new season, though I fear it will get cancelled. It hasn't been received well from either viewers or critics. I fear it's dead in the water. I liked it though, and the gay storyline was cute. Would be nice with a second season.

Cute gay storyline from Italy

Well there's one less gay character on tv now, since the CW has decided to cancel Legends of Tomorrow.

The Arrowverse is official rid of all gays, male and female

Tom Swift, the show about a black gay billionaire inventor, finally has a air date of May 31st

Neil Patrick Harris will be starring in the upcoming Netflix series Uncoupled

R68 Bringing this up but Rebelde on Netflix does have a gay character named Luka

^^^ Does he live on the 2nd floor?

r199, I don't recall a gay themed related storyline on Rebelde.

R199 Maybe not a storyline but the character Luka is gay

The teen thriller mystery show Welcome to Eden has gay characters and a gay storyline (like, two guys making out in a stable). It's about late teens (early 20s) lured to an island for a party and basically trapped to join a cult.

The Staircase.

Well, bisexual, anyway ...

It's not a flattering portrayal (they can't all be), as the man is a murderer, but the series is DAMN good.

Heartstopper on Netflix.

Finished season 1 of Rebelde on Netflix. Plenty of straight kissing and sex, lesbian kisses and some sex but not even a gay male kiss. Supposedly there are going to be 2 more seasons so hopefully we'll get something later.

The latest episode of The Great North has Ham Tobin trying to get his big drama coming out moment, which he apparently never had when he came out to his ever so loving and accepting family, with a distant relative of the family. It's pretty funny. Tuc Watkins is a guest voice in this episode.

Love the show, btw.

Did anybody mention Colin Firth in The Staircase on HBOMax? He’s married but plays a bisexual man who fools around with escorts and guys in Adult Bookstores.

I wouldn't mind fooling around with Colin Firth

Eden on Netflix is yet another show from Spain with a gay (male) storyline. I haven't watched yet, but I will. It looks good.

R208 Sounds good, will have to check it out. Thanks for the tip.

We just lost a ton of gay characters. Many tv shows with gay characters were recently cancelled... Roswell New Mexico, the Dynasty reboot, Good Sam etc. All cancelled. It was a bloodbath over at the CW. I think they cancelled like 4 or 5 shows.

R212 I guess lackadaisical homosexual Kevin on Riverdale is going to need to hold down the fort. That poor cast, they desperately wanted cancellation and their show is like the only one that wasn’t. Luckily it will be year seven so their slavery contracts will be done.

Everyone better watch Tom Swift when it premieres at the end of the month. One of the few shows on the CW with a gay male character and in the lead no less.

The great and legendary Canadian comedy group Kids In The Hall is back. Starring the one and only, Scott Thomson.

Fuck, of course it's Scott Thompson. I blame it on Friday, 13th.

I was afraid that Scott had lost his p!

Swiss Netflix show 'New Heights' or known as 'Neumatt' in it's original language. For some reason it's hard to find a good trailer for it.

Acorn's Signore Volpe, starring Emilia Fox, Tara Fitzgerald and Jamie Bamber, has a tragic gay themed love story in episode three.

Britbox's The Dry

[quote] Adam Richardson, as Shiv’s brother, delivers the funniest, angriest gay character since It’s a Sin.

There's going to be a new gay show called Smiley staring cute Spanish actor Carlos Cuevas.

Cuevas has to be gay, right? I mean, after Merlí...

AFAIK he isn't r221 although this is the 5th time he has played a character who isn't straight.

What were the others besides the two Merlí series (I assume you're counting Pol Rubio in both of those as a single character) and Leonardo?

R223 Also Alguien tiene que morir, De Vuelta and now Smiley.

Much obliged, R220!

[italic]dashes off to Justwatch.com . . .[/italic]

Welcome to Esen was renewed for a second season. Hopefully this means we get to see more of the gays Eloy and Orson next season.

Welcome to Eden*

they really need an edit button on this site

'Ten Percent' on Amazon Prime UK and BBC America has a couple of gay characters on it.

Hmm, Jack Davenport has become rather craggier than I expected. I guess I always assumed he'd just gain weight and come to resemble tapioca pudding with features.

Apparently the Time Traveler's Wife. Well, sorta. A man goes back in time and blows himself.

R231 That's not gay, it's masturbation

UK Channel Four's Big Boys starring Derry Girls' Dylan Llewellyn, also starring Katy Wix, Camille Coduri, Annette Badland, and Sheila Reid.

Plot:

Shy, closeted Jack has spent the past year at home with his mum. He's been grieving for his father but the time has come for him to take his place at uni where he meets his roommate mature student Danny and an unlikely friendship develops.

The Hulu series "Under the Banner of Heaven" just dropped episode 6 and it had a scene with some homo stuff. This series follows a Mormon family having issues.

Mormon Sam Worthington is questioning things and decides to check out a rogue sect that is practicing the outlawed tradition of polygamy. He is scandalized at first but one night Sam ends up in a hot tub with the leader, the leaders two wives and all four are naked. The (handsome) sect leader asks to baptize Sam into their group --after the dunking, the leader lays a very hot kiss on Sam, and Sam reciprocates.

FYI - It is Sam Worthington the actor in "Under the Banner of Heaven" - that is not the characters name.

Discovery+'s Trixie Motel. It's a renovation reality TV show with Trixie and her boyfriend renovating a run-down motel and getting some real glamour to Palm Springs.

R236 No

"The Boys" features a graphic gay sex hookup in the first scene of episode 1 of season 3, just released. Full frontal male nudity and everything. Before it all goes wrong, of course.

R233 American here. it’s like the gay version of chewing gum? I will definitely check it out

r239, I hope, this link helps. Although it's quite funny, overall it deals with depression.

R240 Hopefully that show will be available somewhere to watch in the US

R240 yes Thank you, I’m definitely checking it out. Loving the mom already from the trailer

I'm starting to wonder if two of the actors from the Netflix show "Welcome to Eden" are dating. I'm not sure though, they could just be bffs, but they seem close.

If I filtered this thread to yield only shows in which one of the leads is gay (not a secondary character that gets like 5 minutes per episode), in which the gay character has critical plot relevance, in which the gay character is unequivocally gay for most of the show's duration, and in which the gay character doesn't meet death or some other dismal fate in the end, how many shows would be left?

I feel like it's easy to find media with token gays, sexless gays, minstrel gays, subtextual gays, and tragic gays. But I'm looking for a gay Black Panther, a gay Fox Mulder, a gay Jean-Luc Picard.

Are Ibon and Eloy from Welcome to Eden dating in real life? They seem.... close. I'm starting to suspect they might be something more than just bffs.

Peacock's Queer As Folk is out now.

R246 Is it on Peacock because it’s such a queer bird?

R246 I am curious how many characters on that show are actually gay men

R248 I’m sure each characteris going to be 1 letter in LGBTQIA

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R246

R250 Where is that from?

Yeah Telenovelas can at times be a mixed bag depending on the country and network on whether a gay character gets to kiss or not. Years ago Jaime Camil played a gay character on a telenovela but his character's gay kiss got cut from the show.

R252 it's from The Love Proposal.

Amazon's The Lake has a leading gay character fighting against his wicked step-sister.

Shortland Street recently introduced an older gay man who was just released from the hospital. Who lost his long-term boyfriend to AIDS in the early 90's.

I'm watching My Lottery Dream Home and it has a gay couple. They're from Palatine, Illinois.

Apple TV's Loot has Joel Kim Booster (Fire Island) play the female lead's (Maya Rudolph) gay best friend and assistant. It also stars Michaela Jaé (MJ) Rodriguez (Pose).

Maya is in great form playing a newly divorced woman, with billions at her disposal, who is reminded she has a charity foundation of her own. And her gay BFF wants her to keep partying instead of getting more involved into charity work.

R257 We're still doing gay BFF stereotypes?

r258, who is "we"?

Paradise hotel (Norwegian reality show) has a gay romance this season.

r25 But this is a gay BFF of COLOR stereotype - the ONLY type of gay people allowed on screen now.

Disney animated shows have come a long way

Trixie Motel is pretty gay.

Episode six has a lifeguard competition, Leslie Jordan, porn star Nick Fitt, and special guest star, and DL favorite, Belinda Carlisle.

Ugh drag queens 🙄

R263 Yay, stereotypes

Exactly. And a dude in speedo

R263 Isn't that Nick Fitt who dated a masculine mental ill woman (Ftm) and said that dating them is more safe to prevent STDs than real males??

Just burn this fugly homophobe and those who promote him.

I thought Nick Fitt got fired from his last job?

George has a great curl pattern but it doesn’t fit him

Netflix's new animated show Dead End: Paranormal Park has a gay lead. The show is like Gravity Falls meets The Owl House (both shows have ties to Alex Hirsch). Spooky horror for kids.

Ooops, sorry. Apparently the lead character is trans, not gay. My bad.

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R270 R271 Ah yes. People always seem to be confusing trans with gay

Hotel Portofino

P Valley is awesome!

Hotel Portofino with some hot mano on mano action. Naturally not real sex or anything like it yet. But still.

R273 R274 A waste these guys being transtapos, I hate when hot men are transtapos.

If corny soap opera appeals to you ... The second series of "Beyond Salem" (the Days of our Lives spinoff streaming on Peacock) is playing gay character, "Paul Narita" (Christopher Sean) and the newly-introduced, legacy character, "Andrew Donovan," (being played by out actor, Colton Little). Andrew (r) told Paul (l) that he's also gay in the second episode.

Liz on Nip/Tuck...also Julia goes lez in one season...and Matt hooks up with a tranny!

The Upshaws on Netflix has a gay character

The FX comedy "What We Do in the Shadows" started it's 4th season yesterday, and we learn that Nandor the vampire had some "guy wives" among the 37 spouses he had as a warrior back in the 13th century. Last episode, he gets to revisit those spouses, as he is lonely and is looking to choose a mate and wants to see if one of his previous partners still holds a spark for him. Some of his male wives were pretty handsome. He ended up choosing a female.

R282 So not a gay character, good to know

R282 I love the show. They’re definitely playing with our minds with the Guillermo and nandor relationship.

What about Laszlo’s past affairs

Let's say that he's a bi character, R283.

I'm pretty sure Guillermo is gold star gay on the show.

Guillermo is secretly in love with Nandor. That's why he's lived with them for 13 years. Isn't it obvious?

Nandor would be considered bisexual.

Same for Lazlo, he's alluded to fucking anything.

[quote]He ended up choosing a female.

Seems Nandor had that Indian guy kill all his exes, it appeared Nandor ended up with the woman sitting on the bench late at night. IIRC, she was out late walking her dog. Not sure, it looked like the same actress.

I can't imagine the series adding another character, this romance will likely be short lived. It also ruins the character, because part of Nandor's appeal is that's he's lonely. That's an ongoing theme.

Wasn't Nandor fucking Aida Turturro's character, but she ended up dumping him?!

Didn’t lazlo do gay porn in his past life or was he just in porn I can’t remember

Lazlo is a sex addict, he'd fuck a shoe.

Rebelde season 2 will FINALLY have gays (as in male). Yay!!! Season 1 was a major disappointment as it only had lesbians.

Technically, Rebelde has a gay character in season one, he just didn't get any gay related stories.

Rebelde, so far, reminds me of Find Me In Paris, a kiddie romance show which had a rather neutered gay character, Jeff played by Castle Rock, who had barely any gay related storylines (but he was the comic relief glue that kept the group together for its three seasons). One was he had a crush on one of the other male cast members, which was barely acknowledged until a big dance scene where he revealed that he was over it to the guy he previously had a crush on. The other was a twist where he scored a date off camera during a betting challenge. That was it for 3 seasons.

Isn't Queer as Folk back, in a reboot, but with younger characters?

Trailer for season 2 of the Rebelde reboot.

r296. Thank you for sharing. Looks to me, Rebelde is becoming edgier, like Elite.

Gay storyline on Canadian show SkyMed.

As we prepare to say goodbye to long-term couple, Aaron and David, this coming week as "Neighbours" comes to an end, controversy arises.

Interview with the Vampire seems like it'll be pretty gay

[quote]Interview with the Vampire seems like it'll be pretty gay

Oh it has Jacob Anderson (Grey Worm from GOT)....I completely forgot about him

Interview with a vampire looks good. I hate the CW music they used for the trailer

Thai BL show KinnPorsche. Unfortunately have no idea how to watch it with subtitles.

The Italian Netflix series Di4ries (Diaries) looks to have a gay storyline. The characters are suppose to be around 12 or 13 but look a bit older.

[quote]The Italian Netflix series Di4ries (Diaries) looks to have a gay storyline. The characters are suppose to be around 12 or 13 but look a bit older.

Yeah, they seem to be around 14-15ish, but this is an age when one year makes a big difference in appearance.

Not to sound like a pedo, but the main actor Andrea Arru is going to break a lot of hearts if he manages to keep his looks after puberty. Reminds me of Pietro Boselli.

Here you go r303.

The gay storyline on Rebelde was abysmal. Just so you are warned. I haven't watched it but somebody else did. Nothing really gay happened until the end of the season apparently.

Argentina, tierra de amor y venganza 2. Renato Quattordio will be playing a gay character(his third time time playing a not straight character) in this show when it comes out.

Renato Quattordio is cute r308. I remember when he played a closeted gay character on Simona.

I guess the new season of the Are you Afraid of the Dark reboot has a gay character.

[quote]Luca [Padovan] plays Leo, who's the first canonically gay character in Are You Afraid of the Dark? history. That's an iconic role, and I'm glad it went to him. [It's] rightfully deserved.

I loved Are You Afraid of the Dark as a kid

Skymed on Paramount+

Tom Swift

Tom Swift already got cancelled

Wedding Season on Hulu, September 8th.

The FX show "What We Do in the Shadows" had been teasing that minion-to-vampires Guillermo could be a gay man since the show first aired. He confirmed it in the last episode. No boyfriend as yet....

Does that shadow show have any actual gay characters, or just this one who only now is coming out?

No gay characters, but two of the other three male leads have been confirmed to have fooled around with men, and the third is now their nightclub's main attraction singing musical theatre standards on stage.

Is there any show that a gay character has a major role? This year was pretty weak in gay male rep.

R319 Indeed it has been bad. Lesbians are everywhere while gay male characters are nowhere to be found.

R318 There are a few shows with good gay male representation though, where the gay characters are major characters and central to the story: Sex Education, Elite, Heartstopper and Young Royals. You also have that fun little pirate show Our Flag Means Death with 4 gay male characters, two of them main characters.

[quote] Is there any show that a gay character has a major role?

Just of the top of my head: Netflix Uncoupled, CW's Tom Swift (as mentioned got canceled), Peacock's Queer As Folk, Netflix's Heartstopper, ITV's The Long Call. Surely, there are more.

P Valley. Duh 🙄

To be fair, R321, some of those characters are probably bi. The main character is married and has kids, after all.

In love bi male characters

R322, there's also The Gilded Age on HBO

R324 Have you watched the show? There's no way Stede is even remotely bi. He is gay. He clearly didn't want a wife or kids.

R326 If you want to watch a show with unhappy closeted gays

What was that series with the campy gay kid actor? Both the character and the young actor were gay.

This series was cancelled after a few episodes. Think this series was aired about 2 years ago. The young male actor was American of Persian or Arab descent.

The kid is now trans and presents as female, not sure if he got his cock chopped off. I recently saw him on another series, I assumed he was simply in drag, then I read he's now trans.

R329 The name of the show was Champions and person you are talking about is J.J.Totah now knows as Josie Totah.

"Locke & Key" season 3 features a gay uncle, his fiancé, and a gay wedding.

(also, the lead character, the older brother, is played by an out gay actor, even if the character is straight)

R331 He's only in a few episodes though.

Steven is returning to (new) Dynasty for that series' final episode next month.

Gay storyline from Mexico. You can watch it on Netflix.

I haven't watched it myself but Netflix thumbnails seems to be indicating that the Spanish show 'The Girl in the Mirror' has gay male characters

The Girl In The Mirror has a gay storyline. It's a Netflix show. It's a Spanish (as in from Spain) show, so you know there will be kissing and sex

From the spanish show Alma (English title Girl in the Mirror)

The gay storyline on High Heat (Netflix) in R335 was cute, don't get me wrong, but it pissed me off that the gay couple was the ONLY couple that didn't get a sex scene. The lesbians, the throuple, the straights... ALL got several sex scenes. But the gays didn't. Other than that the storyline was very romantic and cute, with some obvious telenovela tropes (why are telenovela women always so crazy and obsessed?)

I watched the Spanish show Alma. It was very good imo. Eerie and creepy and I loved the darkness. The nature shots were beautiful as well. Spain has some gorgeous scenery. I liked the storyline a lot.... until the ending. I fucking HATED the ending. Of COURSE there had to be a fucking plot twist. I hope it gets a second season and the writers can untangle this mess.

Luka and Okane from Rebelde

The new Netflix show Partner Track has a gay character, but there isn't anything good with him unfortunately. It also features hottie Zane Phillips who's relegated to basically a background character.

"The Old Guard" on Netflix is a movie with gay male characters... literally the only couple and the only kissing you see in what is otherwise an action flick.

Pol Monen (Bruno from the tv show Alma) is very dreamy. The pics don't do him justice. He was much hotter on screen. Great actor too.

These Netflix shows are shit. Do better, gays!

I don't know how to communicate you how much I don't give a shit about spanish telenovelas. Eliminate those and this is a pretty short thread. And I really wish you'd just eliminate those. Stop it. Nobody cares.

I am grateful that the thread includes international TV shows from, say, Mexico (Netflix's La Casa de las Flores, for example) or Spain (Netflix's Elite, for example).

It does sometimes feel like a majority of the good gay male stuff comes from foreign television

Ghosts has gay characters (both the American and British versions)

Maybe ask yourself why we include telenovelas and tv shows from overseas. It's because American tv shows do a horrible job portraying gay men. Gay male characters are either a) neutered b) stereotypes or c) barely there (as in getting a minimal amount of screentime). Of course there are exceptions, like the reboot of QAF. But most of the time American tv shows care more about portraying breeders and dykes. Netflix (and especially foreign Netflix) happen to do a much better job, at least they include gays and give them storylines. Not all Netflix show are good, but they still get an A+ for including gay male characters.

R349 I watched two episodes of Ghosts (US) recently. Who are the gay male characters? I didn't pick up on anything.

r351, it is Isaac played by Brandon Scott Jones. Warning, link features spoilers for those who have not yet seen the entire first season.

Isaac has a love interest, too!

In the last episode of "What We Do In The Shadows", we met Guillermo's boyfriend Freddie, who flew in from the UK to visit for the weekend. The BF is a pretty decent looking guy, who kind of looks like a less femme Jack McBrayer. Nandor sees the upbeat, smiling and personable BF and HE gets feelings for him too. Nandor gets his djinn to change his wife Marwa into a clone of Freddie, and soon Nandor and FreddieClone are cuddling on a couch where Nandor tickles Freddie's nipple with a feather. Of course, Gizmo is not amused - he doesn't want to "share" his lover with Nandor.

The episode ends with Freddie going home, and Nandor deciding that his Freddie needs to not be around to torment Gizmo. Last scene is Gizmo arriving in the UK to surprise Freddie, but it turns sour when he spies BOTH Freddie's on a street corner, holding hands.

NOTE: Unless I blinked and missed it, none of these couples kiss each other, which is a bummer.

Since the 3rd season of Stargirl just started and I hadn't heard this, it looks like they're finally adding a gay character with Obsidian played by gay (or queer or whatever) actor Tim Gabriel. Obsidian is gay in the comics. Not sure when in the season he shows up.

House of the Dragon, HBO's new GOT spinoff, had a gay character introduced in episode 5 this past Sunday. The lead female character got engaged and her soon-to-be-husband has a male lover. They had a sweet scene in some sand dunes, and lips touched.

If you follow the show, you know the story, but I won't say anything more for anyone who is not up to this episode yet.

On Emmerdale, teen Arthur just got outed, then came out to his mother.

The reboot of "Waterloo Road" (BBC) has a gay married couple named Joe Casey and Mike Rutherford. They have two foster boys.

"Joe" (played by James Baxter) is one of the deputy headteachers at the school, while "Mike" (played by Ryan Clayton) is the local police sergeant.

And among the students on "Waterloo Road," we know that "Kai" is gay, but not sure how things will go with "Preston." He's the popular captain of the basketball team, and after his girlfriend breaks up with him, he drunkenly kisses Kai.

"Kai Sharif" is played by Danny Lewis. "Preston Walters" is played by Noah Valentine.

Hmm ... Are we about to have another generation go gay or bisexual on Hollyoaks?

Lucas' father, Ste, is one of the gays in the village, and Ste's father, Danny, was bisexual. .. Aunt Peri is also bi.

Doctors (BBC).

Nurse Luca McIntyre might have a new man.