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Originally Posted by whatthejish
There are plenty of current onscreen gay characters played by straight actors and vice versa.
Yes to the "vice versa", and I don't really follow much current TV, but I know there have been lots of controversies lately about white actors playing non-white characters, able actors playing disabled characters, hearing actors playing deaf characters, and CIS actors playing trans characters. Seems like it should be just as controversial for a straight actor to play a gay character, especially if it is one as stereotypically gay as the SITC character was.