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[angelophile]

Stolen, in my case, from wal_lace

Ask me my Top Five Whatevers. Fannish or otherwise. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really. And I will answer them all in a comment.

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And onto queer characters. (I'm going to assume by queer you mean the entirety of LGBTQ characters and not just characters that identify specifically as queer.)

I tend to gravitate towards characters that are characters first and LGBTQ second, rather than LGBTQ first and characters second. What I mean is there's a lot of characters where the sexuality is the starting concept for the character (for example "lesbian Batwoman" coming first and the character being built around that.) So, instead of "queer character" I tend to prefer "character who happens to be queer".

I hope that makes sense and doesn't sound dismissive of sexuality as an inherent character trait.

No order again.

1. Leonard Pine, from Joe R. Lansdale's Hap and Leonard series of gonzo crime novels. An unapologetic, masculine, gay POC vietnam vet.
2. Dr. Kerry Weaver from E.R. As is always the way with E.R., I loved character that started out quite straightforward and developed layers over the years. Kerry's mobility impairment and discovery and then confidence in her status as a gay woman were aspects of an already layered character.
3. Mystique in the X-men books. I love villains with many shades of grey and Mystique's wonderfully ambiguous.
4. Hector in The History Boys. A tour de force by Richard Griffiths, who portrays the eccentric teacher as a brilliantly complex character, weak and repressed and charismatic and wonderful.
5. Gay Perry in Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. The hard boiled private investigator who has a skill for brilliant, sarcastic put downs and kicking arse. Val Kilmer's greatest role by far. "Okay, you've got 30 of my fucking seconds. Thrill me."

Karolina Dean, Tara Maclay and Wiccan all just nudged out of making the list.