History AmbiguouslyGay / LiveActionTV

* One of the suspects in the ''Series/MurderSheWrote'' episode "Footnote to Murder" is a rather camp historian who specialises in Ancient Greece -- which the VictimOfTheWeek, an agressively macho war novelist, describes as pPrissy drivel" about "Greek boys mincing about" -- and tells Jessica that his alibi is having dinner with a "young man" from the press. He even follows up telling her that the victim's wife was jealous of other women by adding "She was even jealous of ''me''. Ridiculous, of course."

* ''Series/StrangerThings'': Will Byers is singled out by bullies as "the gay one" of the main kids, doesn't show any interest in girls, and his relationship with his friend Mike has strong parallels to Mike's relationship with his own LoveInterest, Eleven. A few ambiguously canonical sources (an episode script and an old show bible) heavily suggest that Will is gay and has a crush on Mike. In Season 3, Will's interests start to diverge from those of his girl-obsessed friends. Mike outright accuses Will of not liking girls, which Will neither confirms nor denies. It's not clear whether Will is just a later bloomer or is, in fact, hiding his homosexuality.

* ''Series/TedLasso'': Colin Hughes. When Keeley tells the team to sign up for a new dating app she's promoting called Bantr, Colin blurts out that the spelling is like Grindr, a gay hookup app.

* ''Series/{{Supergirl 2015}}'': Alex Danvers was suspected by many fans to be gay as early as the Pilot. Though a male character expressed interest in her in the first season, she never returned that interest. While she had good reasons not to be into that character, she lacked any significant love interests in her backstory. She mentions having dated men in college, but she doesn't seem to have actually liked any of them. When DCTV revealed that a character on either ''Supergirl'' or ''Series/TheFlash2014'' would be coming out in the upcoming season, Alex was an immediate suspect. As of ''Crossfire'' [[spoiler:Alex's sexual orientation is no longer ambiguous.]]
** Kara herself also shows hints that she is attracted to women as well, admitting that she wanted to date Lucy, to her close relationship with Lena.

** The Doctor's own sexuality is quite unclear, not helped by the fact that their [[TheNthDoctor regenerations]] mean that it's quite possible their sexuality changes from one incarnation to another. The First Doctor had a granddaughter, so we can assume there was a heterosexual romance at some point, but beyond that it's all up in the air. Four makes a joke implying he's {{Asexual}}, Ten has a lot of ShipTease with Rose, Eleven has [[AmbiguouslyBi various moments with both genders]], Twelve [[ShrugOfGod might have been in a romantic relationship with Clara]], and Thirteen [[LesYay doesn't know if she's in a relationship with Yaz]].

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': As in the books, the eunuch Lord Varys seems to have what might be a romantic interest in his "little birds," which are young boys uses as spies. When the bisexual Oberyn questions him openly about which sex he preferred before his castration, Varys claims that he preferred [[{{Asexuality}} neither boys nor girls]] and ''never'' had an interest in desire. This may simply be a convenient lie or coping mechanism, but Varys also claims to have been castrated as a young child, before he would have experienced any sexual desire, so it's possible that he's telling the truth. Or he could always have been asexual.

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* ''Series/LazyTown'': Robbie Rotten. He’s effeminate, wears makeup and even disguises in drag several times to further his schemes. Despite claiming to hate Sportacus and wanting him to leave the town, Robbie sure spends a lot of time talking about him, touching him and jumping into his arms whenever the slightly-above-average hero shows up.

* ''Series/LazyTown'': Robbie Rotten. He’s effeminate, wears makeup and even disguises in drag several times to further his schemes. Despite claiming to hate Sportacus and wanting him to leave the town, Robbie sure spends a lot of time talking about Sportacus, touching Sportacus and jumping into his arms whenever the slightly-above-average hero shows up.

* ''Series/LazyTown'': Robbie Rotten. Despite claiming to hate Sportacus and wanting him to leave the town, Robbie sure spends a lot of time talking about Sportacus, touching Sportacus and jumping into his arms whenever the slightly-above-average hero shows up.

* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'':
** For ''nine years'' George Huang's sexuality was debated among fans until the episode "Hardwired" confirmed he was gay ([[ActorSharedBackground like his actor]]).
** Olivia Benson, who looks like every lesbian stereotype, from [[LipstickLesbian one end]] of the spectrum to [[ButchLesbian the other]] all rolled together and had the most incredible LesYay with [[HelloAttorney Assistant District Attorney Alex Cabot]]. {{Jossed}} in "PC".

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** In Season Four, a lot of [[spoiler: Gob's]] more eccentric relationship behaviors in the first three seasons retroactively became Ambiguously Gay. Series creator Mitch Hurwitz has [[WordOfGay confirmed several times]] in post-s4 interviews that [[spoiler: Gob]] is gay, but that Tobias is straight.

** Gale Boetticher is vaguely effeminate or at least CampStraight from the start, with interests in karaoke and opera. That's not confirmation in and of itself, but In Season 4 [[spoiler:when he dies]] the gangbanger who had been assigned to keep track of him through all of Season 3 has a [[HoYay clearly emotional reaction that suggests much more than a professional relationship]]. In Gale's lab notes, his dedication to "W.W." sounds more like it's referring to a lover than a mentor. But it could also be referring to Creator/WaltWhitman, the source of the quote.

* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': In season one, Claire's friend Zach is never ''explicitly'' stated to be gay but all of the hints are there, and his big "I know who I am - I like who I am" speech doesn't leave much to the imagination. Then the whole "best friend has super powers and a serial killer after her" plot took precedence, his character was ignored and then he disappeared altogether.

* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'': Mac, for much of the series. While he's initially an unambiguous straight guy with an adolescent fixation on buff action stars, as the series goes on, more and more jokes suggest that Mac is a closeted gay man whose Catholic faith causes him to be an ArmoredClosetGay. In season 12 episode 6, the ambiguity is finally removed.
* ''Series/IZombie'' has a meta example with Evan, Liv's brother. Due to time constraints, a scene where he comes out to Liv was removed from season 2. Because the canon status of the scene was never cleared up, neither was Evan's sexuality.

* ''Series/TheLatestBuzz'': Michael Davies. Being a kid's show, they can't actually state that he is gay but he is teenaged boy who writes the magazine's gossip column, is obsessed with fashion, and loves musicals (and sings the female parts). In second season they tried to move away from this characterisation by toughening him up and giving him an interest in girls, with varying degrees of success. In one episode he seems over the moon when a male student compliments his tie, until another character points out that he might have been being sarcastic. Michael then spends the rest of the episode obsessed over whether or not this guy really likes his tie, seeming like he'll be crushed if it turns out he didn't.

* Brad Bottig on ''Series/TheMiddle''. He's introduced in season 1 as Sue's boyfriend, and fits nearly every CampGay stereotype. When Sue breaks up with him Mike and Frankie initially assume it's because Sue learned he's gay, although Sue reveals it was due to his smoking habit.

** The ambiguity is eventually lessened in season 7 when he passively comes out as gay to Sue, with the implication that she knew already.

** Creator/SethMeyers on the Weekend Update segments with New York City correspondent Stefon (played by Bill Hader). Meyers always tries to rebuff Stefon's advances by saying he has a girlfriend, except for the last segment on the season 38 episode hosted by Creator/BenAffleck [[spoiler:when Stefon breaks up with Seth and Seth stops Weekend Update to stop Stefon from marrying Anderson Cooper]].

** In season 3, Patrick's sexuality is an open question for several episodes, with David presuming the business major who wears straight-legged, mid-range denim cannot be gay. Alexis and Stevie, on the other hand, notice that Patrick has a crush on David and encourage a romance. They turn out to be right.

* ''Series/StrangerThings'': Will Byers is singled out by bullies as "the gay one" of the main kids, doesn't show any interest in girls, and his relationship with his friend Mike has strong parallels to Mike's relationship with his own LoveInterest, Eleven. A few ambiguously canonical sources (an episode script and an old show bible) heavily suggest that Will is gay and has a crush on Mike. In season 3, Will's interests start to diverge from those of his girl-obsessed friends. Mike outright accuses Will of not liking girls, which Will neither confirms nor denies. It's not clear whether Will is just a later bloomer or is, in fact, hiding his homosexuality.

** Main character Tori is popularly thought to be this or AmbiguouslyBi, with those comparing the more bromantic way she acts around boys (despite a few minor one-episode boyfriends) to her often flirty interactions with her female friends, guest stars and background characters and deducing it as a case of HideYourLesbians, not entirely implausible for this being on the for-kids network Nickelodeon. Subverted during season 4/3.5, as perhaps some executive or creator meddling gave her a noticeably contrasting GirlyGirl makeover and many boy-centric songs to sing, though she still has a ton of LesYay moments as well.

** For ''nine years'' George Huang's sexuality was debated among fans until the episode "Hardwired" confirmed he was gay ([[[ActorSharedBackground like his actor]]).

* Brad Bottig on ''Series/TheMiddle''. He's introduced in season 1 as Sue's Camp boyfriend. When Sue breaks up with him Mike and Frankie initially assume it's because Sue learned he's gay, although Sue reveals it was due to his smoking habit. Brad and Sue remain close friends after the breakup, giving way to more ambiguous moments.

** The ambiguity is eventually lessened in season 7 when he passively comes out to Sue, with the implication that she already knew he was gay.

** Gill. Ambiguously Gay from day one, claimed to be married to a woman who fit ButchLesbian stereotypes, then [[SuddenlySexuality suddenly became gay.]] (His actor, Edward Hibbert, is openly gay, however.) His producer as well, whom Gill admits he's never seen with a woman before.

---> '''Sue''': Brad said a boy likes me!//

** Gill. Ambiguously Gay from day one, was married to a woman who fit ButchLesbian stereotypes, then [[SuddenlySexuality suddenly became gay.]] His producer as well, whom Gill admits he's never seen with a woman before.