History Main / WordOfGay

** Despite the reveal being after the fact, plenty of people proceeded to not be surprised, either on the basis of perceived HoYay between Dumbledore and [[spoiler:Grindelwald]] or on Dumbledore's canonical intention (never followed through) to tour Greece with his friend Elphias Doge after finishing school - something the historical Lord Byron had done in order to satiate his homosexual urges.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Kai Ziegler has stated that they think an unnamed character they played, known only as "First Mate", is non-binary.

* In the ''ComicBook/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' comics there is a lot of [[HomoeroticSubtext subtext]] between Dracula and Xander but nothing is ever stated outright. When asked about the nature of their relationship, author Christos Gage (who wrote a Dracula/Xander-heavy arc) said he personally believes Dracula indeed harbors some romantic feelings for Xander.

* ''Franchise/ArchieComics'': Since the series' inception, Jughead had always been portrayed as the StraightMan counterpart to Archie's LoveMakesYouCrazy-style heterosexual hijinx, up to and including being far more interested in food than in girls and actively avoiding any attempt by ladies to pair up with him. As the years went on, this characterisation came to be scrutinised in many different ways: was Jughead a misogynist for 'not liking women'? Or was he gay, [[TakeAThirdOption or even asexual]]? Even after the introduction of the franchise's first officially gay character in Kevin, Jughead remained ambiguous. In the [[ComicBook/ArchieComics2015 2015 revival]], it was finally confirmed in text: Jughead is uninterested in romantic relationships because he is asexual, and while it's not stated explicitly, he also very clearly considers himself UsefulNotes/{{aromantic}} as well.

* ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'' faces this controversy. The writer for one of his solo series, Gerry Duggan, has openly stated that Deadpool is pansexual, then adds that he sees Deadpool as [[AnythingThatMoves "Ready & willing to do anything with a pulse."]] Then he mentions tweeting and keeping people up to date on Deadpool's "omnisexual exploits." Original co-creator Fabian Nicieza states Deadpool's sexuality changes with his brain, mentioning that due to the constant erratic state his mind is in, Deadpool is, or likes whatever his brain tells him he does in that particular moment, then that moment passes. Despite these statements by two different writers, many fans doubt the sincerity of them because Deadpool has only ever been shown with women.

* ''Theatre/BeMoreChill'' writer\ Joe Tracz confirmed that the removal of Michael's girlfriend [[Literature/BeMoreChill from the book]] and other references to him liking girls in the musical was intentional.

* ''Theatre/BeMoreChill'' writer, Joe Tracz confirmed that the removal of Michael's girlfriend [[Literature/BeMoreChill from the book]] and other references to him liking girls in the musical was intentional.

* For Pride Month, 2018, ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'' author Creator/MaryCagle tweeted artwork of her LGBTQ characters with their relevant Pride flags. [[https://twitter.com/cubewatermelon/status/1005804609443680256 Transgender for Zoe]], [[https://twitter.com/cubewatermelon/status/1008152830056763393 Gay Pride for Team Melty]], and [[https://twitter.com/cubewatermelon/status/1008230215506628608 Pansexual for Outrageous Lime]]. Zoe had already been confirmed shortly before this art was posted while Melty Flame and Melty Frost were SickeninglySweethearts from moment one. Outrageous Lime, however, has only been seen or mentioned a few times, with only two related to her sexuality. The first was surprise that she had a boyfriend ("As in a ''boy'' boy?") and, on first seeing Heartful Punch and Undine together, remarking "So ''that'' was your type", prompting HP to hastily try and change the subject while Lime brushes it off because "she has a guy now".

* In ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2'', Gobber remarks during an argument between Stoick and his wife Valka "This is why I never married. This, and one other reason." It was originally a ThrowItIn moment by Gobber's voice actor but was eventually backed up by the film's openly gay director Dean [=DeBlois=]

* ''Film/FlorenceFosterJenkins'': Simon Helberg confirmed he played Cosmé [=McMoon=], the titular character's pianist, as gay and researched pre-World War II gay life while preparing for the role. There is no indication of the character's sexuality in the film other than Helberg's slightly effeminate portrayal, and little is known of [=McMoon=]'s real-life sexuality other than he never married nor had children.
* ''Film/TheHaunting1963'': Theodora was clearly marked as a gay character except it was never stated. When later asked about it, both Director Creator/RobertWise and her actress Claire Bloom were perfectly clear that she was a lesbian, and the only reason it was left unsaid was that it was [[ValuesDissonance made in 1963.]] In the [[Film/TheHaunting1999 1999 remake]] and [[Series/TheHauntingOfHillHouse the 2018 TV show]], Theo is portrayed as bisexual and a lesbian respectively.

* According to Creator/ElliotPage in an interview, his character Film/{{Juno}} as well as most of the other characters he's portrayed in films turned out to be lesbians.

* Creator/RobertCarlyle believes that his Begbie character in ''Film/{{Trainspotting}}'' is secretly gay and in love with Renton because he can't understand why else a man who hates drugs would hang around with an addict and follow him to London and also because he doesn't beat or kill the woman he gets off with who turns out to be a man.

* ''Film/{{Solo}}'' co-writer Jonathan Kasdan said within days of the film opening that Lando Calrissian is pansexual. Funnily, Billy Dee Williams reached a similar conclusion in 2013, where he suggested that Lando was wearing Han's clothes in a scene of ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' because he'd put them on in the dark after a one-night stand.

* Creator/ViggoMortensen said he played Tex Sawyer ''Film/LeatherfaceTheTexasChainsawMassacreIII'' as gay.
* Creator/RyanReynolds has said that he considers his ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}'' to be pansexual, like the comics version.

* Director Creator/ToddPhillips has said that Alan from ''Film/TheHangover'' is asexual though he ends up getting married in the third movie.
* In 2009, Molly Ringwald told Time Out that Jon Cryer's character Duckie in ''Film/PrettyInPink'' was gay.

* ''Literature/HarryPotter'' has Albus Dumbledore. Creator/JKRowling revealed he was gay after the end of the series, and as a result of a fan asking her if he'd ever found love himself. He kept out of romantic relationships and such because he once fell for a man and [[spoiler:neglected his family, resulting in horrible consequences and the death of his sister (and that's not even getting into the fact that said man was [[PredecessorVillain Gellert Grindelwald]], who would go on to become the equivalent of Wizard Hitler, as the previous Dark Lord before Voldemort)]]. Essentially, Dumbledore is gay, but a CelibateHero. During a scriptwriting meeting for one of the ''Film/HarryPotter'' films, she handed back a script page in which Dumbledore spoke about a girl he "knew" once with a note saying "He's gay!" {{Enforced|Trope}} for books prior to the sixth: before it was repealed in 2003 (2000 in Scotland), the notorious homophobic law Section 2A to the Local Government Act 1986 (popularly known as "clause 28") forbade local authorities from "promoting homosexuality", which in practice was interpreted as banning any books containing sympathetic gay characters from state school libraries.

* [[Creator/PaulCornell Paul Cornell's]] notes at the end of the novelization to the ''Franchise/DoctorWho'' animation, ''WebAnimation/ScreamOfTheShalka'' said that The Doctor is asexual and not attracted to anybody.

* [[https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/4jsr9h/ama_marjorie_liu_monstress_image_comics/d39bqc7?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3 Marjorie Liu]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/6qimxq/im_marjorie_liu_writer_and_cocreator_of_the/dkxovm7?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3 confirmed]] that she wrote {{ComicBook/Iceman}} as closeted in her run of ''ComicBook/AstonishingXMen''. Scott Lobdell also [[https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/flame-on/episode-207-scott-lobdell-LeFvHrzjh_Y/amp/?__twitter_impression=true confirmed]] that he wrote Iceman with closeted themes and subtext in his run of ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen''. Both of their respective runs took place before it was revealed that the character is gay.

** Rotor Walrus, according to former head writer Ken Penders. In the "Mobius: X Years Later" story he wrote, Rotor is frequently seen with another scientist echidna named Cobar, who was intended to be his life partner. However, his successor, Ian Flynn, declined to follow up on this, saying he considered it non-canon due to it having essentially no backing in the comic itself, as well as the fact Ken Penders didn't state this until after he had left the comic. On the other hand, nothing in Ian Flynn's run on the comic has contradicted it, either.
*** Combined with WhatCouldHaveBeen and WordOfDante; according to Ken Penders, a statement Eggman made to Rotor after Sonic's return from space was meant to indicate he knew of Rotor's preference, and was to set up a storyline where he used that knowledge against him. Also, when first revealing his intention to make Rotor gay, he put up a question to the fans on which characters he was planning on giving the Word to - half of the answers came back to Rotor and Tommy Turtle, a minor character in the comic that had been given a significance in the ANONYMOUS arc, but was denied by Penders, as the turtle had died for good, by then.

* ''Franchise/ArchieComics'': Since the series' inception, Jughead had always been portrayed as the StraightMan counterpart to Archie's LoveMakesYouCrazy-style heterosexual hijinx, up to and including being far more interested in food than in girls and actively avoiding any attempt by ladies to pair up with him. As the years went on, this characterisation came to be scrutinised in many different ways: was Jughead a misogynist for 'not liking women'? Or was he gay, [[TakeAThirdOption or even asexual]]? Even after the introduction of the franchise's first officially gay character in Kevin, Jughead remained ambiguous. In the [[ComicBook/ArchieComics2015 2015 revival]], it was finally confirmed in text: Jughead is uninterested in romantic relationships because he is asexual, and while it's not stated explicitly, he also very clearly considers himself aromantic as well.

* Creator/{{RTE}}'s puppet, ''Bosco'' was always AmbiguousGender. The puppet became an [=LGBT=] icon after being used in a campaign to encourage people to vote to legalize same sex marriage in Ireland and the official Twitter account eventually confirmed that Bosco was neither a boy nor a girl, just Bosco

* In the musical ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'', during the song "My shot", Alexander Hamilton tells new friend John Laurens "Laurens, I like you a lot". Creator Lin Manuel Miranda (who also plays Alexander), confirmed that this line was supposed to imply that Laurens and Hamilton were in fact more than friends. Historians have speculated to this effect, especially using letters that could easily be viewed as romantic. [[https://mobile.twitter.com/Lin_Manuel/status/646419967852847108]]

* ''ARG/TheNoedolekcinArchives'': Seismo stated in a [[https://twitter.com/MK70016/status/1645965503884607488 tweet]] that Kirk Odd is genderfluid and has no pronoun preference. A later [[https://twitter.com/MK70016/status/1657766972766011394 message]] from Kirk Odd himself states that he does not understand humans' concept of romance, explicitly confirming he is at least aromantic.

* While probably obvious given the historical support for it, Gen Urobuchi confirmed that ''LightNovel/FateZero'''s Rider -- aka [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Alexander the Great]] -- is bisexual (and would have attempted to bed Sola-Ui ''and'' Kayneth if he were summoned by them as they'd intended).
* ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'': Nasu commented that the first thing Touko Aozaki does [[spoiler:upon getting into a new backup body]] is hunt for pretty girls, confirming earlier implications that she's bisexual.

* Amy and Tekno from ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'' will end up together, according to WordOfDante. The main writer Nigel Kitching and one of the main artists Nigel Dobbyn worked on a DistantFinale called ''Exit:Sonic'' for the FanSequel ''Webcomic/SonicTheComicOnline''. In the future, Tekno and Amy will be raising a son named [[DeadGuyJunior Johnny]] together.

* ''ARG/TheNoedolekcinArchives'': Seismo stated in a [[https://twitter.com/MK70016/status/1645965503884607488 tweet]] that Kirk Odd is genderfluid and has no pronoun preference.

* Amy and Tekno from ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'' will end up together, according to WordOfDante. The main writer Nigel Kitching and one of the main artists Nigel Dobbyn worked on a DistantFinale called ''Exit:Sonic'' for the FanSequel ''Webcomic/SonicTheComicOnline''. In the future, Tekno and Amy will be [[HasTwoMommies raising a son]] named [[DeadGuyJunior Johnny]] together.

* ''Manga/{{Saki}}'': While she didn't clarify any specific examples, Ritz stated in a [[http://michinoakio.blogspot.com/2019/05/ritz-senseis-blog-post-190508.html blog post]] that not only are "more than half" of the characters lesbians (with about 20% of them being bisexual), but that [[HasTwoMommies they are also the children of lesbian couples]] who conceived them through [=iPS=] technology. She also clarified that same-sex marriage is legal in the ''Saki'' universe.

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* ''Comicbook/LokiAgentOfAsgard'' writer Creator/AlEwing stated what ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'' fans always suspected: Loki is bisexual and at least the young one is also genderqueer (this occasionally causes some pronoun confusion on this very wiki, as editors of Ewing's Loki series tend to refer to young Loki as ''they'' (GenderNeutralWriting purposes and also because that Loki tends to not be one of anything) while others go with previous Loki's ''he''). A 2022 ''ComicBook/MarvelsVoices'' story reconfirms this and introduces several of Loki's male exes.