Yay! But aw. Yeah, I'm trying to think of mainstreamier queer characters... Doctor Who, 10th Doctor episode Midnight, Sky has just broken up with her wife. There's also the (ugh) tall short fat thin I hate you Moffatt gay catholic space marines. Because who needs names with descriptors like that.
Irene Adler in Sherlock identifies as gay. Since I am prone to take people at their word about things like that, I believe her.
I think that one of the side characters in Caprica was explicitly queer, but I never actually watched it. I didn't watch all of BSG, but were we thrown no bones there?
I'm pretty sure Xena is textually bi.
And the actor who played Ioulus in Hercules also played other characters in single episodes. At least one was a woman. Couldn't tell you which season. I feel like that adds a dimension of queerness, if not exactly what you're looking for.
Every one of the Valdemar books I've read had a queer relationship somewhere in it. Vanyel (Magic's Promise, Magic's Price, Magic's something I can't remember now) is the only gay central figure in the ones I read, but there may have been more after I gave up.
Boston Legal's (male) main characters got married at the end of the series. They were not in a sexual relationship and I believe both identified as straight.
Tamora Pierce, Lioness Quartet - Alanna, the main character, spends the first two books disguised as a boy. She has trans experiences, but does not identify as trans and returns to female identification after she is outed. That's another sort of edge-case.
Except for the last one, I don't know that I would rush to add this batch to your read/watch list.
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Date: 2015-05-07 07:31 am (UTC)Irene Adler in Sherlock identifies as gay. Since I am prone to take people at their word about things like that, I believe her.
I think that one of the side characters in Caprica was explicitly queer, but I never actually watched it. I didn't watch all of BSG, but were we thrown no bones there?
I'm pretty sure Xena is textually bi.
And the actor who played Ioulus in Hercules also played other characters in single episodes. At least one was a woman. Couldn't tell you which season. I feel like that adds a dimension of queerness, if not exactly what you're looking for.
Every one of the Valdemar books I've read had a queer relationship somewhere in it. Vanyel (Magic's Promise, Magic's Price, Magic's something I can't remember now) is the only gay central figure in the ones I read, but there may have been more after I gave up.
Boston Legal's (male) main characters got married at the end of the series. They were not in a sexual relationship and I believe both identified as straight.
Tamora Pierce, Lioness Quartet - Alanna, the main character, spends the first two books disguised as a boy. She has trans experiences, but does not identify as trans and returns to female identification after she is outed. That's another sort of edge-case.
Except for the last one, I don't know that I would rush to add this batch to your read/watch list.