As Pride month continues, we are taking a look at some of the theatre characters that have moved us, offering queer representation on the stage.
We asked and you answered: From Damien in Mean Girls to Celie in The Color Purple, take a look at the LGBTQIA+ characters that inspire us.
Isabelle McCalla and Caitlin Kinnunen
Deen van Meer
Nicholas L. Ashe, Jonathan Burke, J. Quinton Johnson, Jeremy Pope, Caleb Eberhardt, John Clay III, and Gerald Caesar in Choir Boy
LaChanze and Elisabeth Withers-Mendes in the original Broadway production of The Color Purple.
Paul Kolnik
Michael Urie
Matthew Murphy
Angel Schunard and Tom Collins in Rent
Maureen Johnson and Joanne Jefferson in Rent
Neil Patrick Harris in Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Joan Marcus
Jordan Berman in Significant Other
Lola in Kinky Boots
Matthew Murphy
Sydney Lucas, Beth Malone and Emily Skeggs in Fun Home
Joan Marcus
Christian Borle and Andrew Rannells
Joan Marcus
Ned Weeks in The Normal Heart
Cordelia and Charlotte in Falsettos
Joan Marcus
Frankie Healy in Jagged Little Pill
Matthew Murphy
Douglas Hodge in La Cage Aux Folles
Jamie in Everybody's Talking About Jamie
Johan Perrson
Rod in Avenue Q
Carol Rosegg
Katrina Lenk and Adina Verson in Indecent
Carol Rosegg
Michael Arden in Bare
Ernst and Hanschen in Spring Awakening
Joan Marcus
Barrett Wilbert Weed and Grey Henson
Pamela in Head Over Heels
Joan Marcus
Taylor Iman Jones and company
Joan Marcus
Eric Glass in The Inheritance
Buzz Hauser in Love! Valour! Compassion!
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