So, inspired by another thread, what are some of people's favorite gay characters in games they played, or in game modules?

For me, I think my favorite was Quentin Q. Falstaff III, 008 - played by my friend Jim.  This was in a James Bond 007 campaign that I ran in the early 2000s - but it was set back in the 1980s.  Quentin was a huge, mustached, beef-eating, horse-riding English nobleman and secretly a spy for MI-6.  With his high profile as cover, he could travel the world and engage in secret work behind the scenes.  He was also thoroughly gay - an indulgence that society turned a blind eye to.  In the game, it came up mostly in select NPCs that he met up with. In keeping with the grand 1980s James Bond tradition, he met up with a comely Scotsman named Phil McCracken, or later a Russian expatriate named Ivan Moorcock. It was a lot of fun, and he added a lot to the game.

That is kind of amazing! 007 is an epically awesome game.

I liked villainous Queen Ileosa and her lover Sabina Merrin in Paizo's Curse of the Crimson Throne, though the later books didn't really meet their full potential.

Best character I ever made was a gay paladin. I initially ran him as mildly naive and idealistic, but eventually the campaign turned grim and he hardened up and joined the inquisition. Also, he married a dragon which he redeemed. Good times.

Long ago.....(the late 80's) some buddies and I from a local gaming club joined an AD&D campaign run by another club member. When we arrived to generate characters we found out that all characters would be generated via an "advanced" computer program. It was kind of a one button generator, kind of like pulling a slot machine lever to see what character you would play. This guy's campaign had a reputation as quite a meat grinder so we said what the hell. This generator gave you stats, personality, literally everything.
One of my buddies ended up with a gay kleptomaniac paladin. He had a lot of fun with that character for its brief lifespan. Constantly stealing from party members then returning the items with an apology. Good times.

"Lady Bathory", a lesbian vampire aberrant and child murderess, in my Aeon Trinity game. She was a combo of Sil from Species, the space vampires from Lifeforce and the historical Lady Bathory who threw extravagant parties for the most powerful people who gained youthful regeneration at her events. She was a celebrity vitakinetic...but nobody knew she was an aberrant. She dressed all black metal as throwback statement, lived in a gothic techno castle and did EVERYTHING possible to telegraph she was a monster...while she had effectively "official' protection.  

But...none of my players knew WHO the historical Lady Bathory was, and as it was pre-cell phone, nobody took the time to look her name up.

So she carried on as a NPC, gleefully dropping babies in blenders and having public all girl orgies, as the PCs dealt with blatantly violent aberrants. When campaign ended, I read them the laundry lists of hints and misdirections from a dozen sessions, and they had totally dismissed her as just a future Madonna clone.

Kalen Avenir, from Terry K Amthor's Shadow World setting. The Loremasteer/Shadow World is probably the only published setting that I have used to run over multiple campaigns crossing it over with the Spacemaster universe. I ran dozens of campaigns over a decade or more. Kalen and his lover Jad are key NPCs in a continent (Rhakhaan) epic that is in adventure and novel form. I believe ther was a thread about this on this site.

https://www.therpgsite.com/showthread.php?27301-Terry-K-Amthor-s-Shadow-World-novel-Loremaster-Legacy-is-out-now!

For a more fantasy character, I had an Amber Diceless PC inspired by Donna Barr's comic _The Desert Peach_. The game started in WWII on Earth, and my character was a over-the-top gay, disloyal Nazi supply officer.  He soon discovered his Chaos ancestry - and the reality of the multiverse - as other PCs also discovered their ancestries.  He was quite high in Warfare, and also started to discover his powers - which were shapeshifting and Logrus.  

He sometimes talked about finding  women kind of gross, which set up for his learning shapeshifting and having his demon form appear (a standard part of shapeshifting in Amber).  He referred to discovering what he called his "hideous demon form" but he never changed in front of the other PCs.  Only towards the end of the game did the other players learn that his "hideous demon form" was actually a voluptuous, red-skinned, bat-winged succubus.

I care about what characters do, not what gender they're into.

You know I honestly don't recall sexual orientation ever coming up in any of my campaigns in any fashion other than the odd lewd joke.

Quote from: Arkansan;1038866You know I honestly don't recall sexual orientation ever coming up in any of my campaigns in any fashion other than the odd lewd joke.

Yeah, that's the thing.

I don't remember the sexual orientation of any PC or NPC because it never had any relevance on the games I was in. I remember the sexual orientation of a few of the Players because we were friends and met outside of the game.

A gay Skinner-turned-Hardholder in Apocalypse World named "The Desert Queen". It started as a little joke but ended up being one of the best characters I've ever played.

I can't really think of anyone who is specifically gay, but if you broaden it to LGBT+ then I would have to say Jerry Cornelius.

Can't say our characters engage in sexual activity during our games or any romantic notions now that I think about it. As a result their sexual persuasion, or that of npcs really hasn't mattered.

While actual sex rarely has a place at my table, hetero relationships are present in one form or another in pretty much all of them. Outside of Pathfinder (which I find to be a mixed bag), LGBT characters are almost non-existent in my gaming experience. Granted, how the GM presents the character has a lot to do with how we take them, regardless of the author's intent. I know of at least one example in the Hell's Rebels AP that seemed like over the top blatant pandering, but when I read the module later to prepare for a different group, I discovered that the previous GM had just been entirely unable to stop mentioning it, even when it was entirely irrelevant to what was happening at the time.

I have played a few gay characters, but even then their sexuality has mostly been a background note. And with my current IRL group, I don't really feel comfortable exploring that venue of storytelling in-game. Granted, there's a lot of things I dislike about the current group, but they haven't quite hit the tipping point of bad gaming vs no gaming.

So right now, no, I don't really have a favorite. I'd like to at some point in the future though.