No cite, but if memory serves it was Alan King.
Data and Geordi, from ST: TNG.
Yes, I remember those ones. He did seem extremely campy.
There was also a commercial for Lotrimin (I think it’s an athlete’s foot medication) that depicts two baseball players. At one point in the ad, apropos of nothing, one player puts his arm on the other guy’s shoulder. On another MB I referred to those two as “the only openly gay men in professional baseball.”
When I think about it, Uncle Fester from the Adam’s Family might have been gay. I mean, he was an older man who was still single, and he did have a strong attachment to his Mama :D.
On a related note, on a coppy cat show, Herman Munster seemed kind of effiminant.
What, no mention of C3PO?
Other folks who should’ve been mentioned in this thread by now:
Starsky & Hutch,
Cagney & Lacey,
Sabrina Duncan (Kate Jackson’s character from “Charlie’s Angels”),
Bulldog from “Frasier” (can you say ‘overcompensating’?),
Any Peter Lorre character (he’s “artistic” after all…)…
…And then there’s Maude!
Pretty much any character played by the late, great Vincent Price. I mean, come on. The mincing, the lisp… I watched The Last Man on Earth yesterday, and it has to be said: Vincent Price stakes vampires like a girl.
Dr Smith from the Lost in Space series.
Dan Butler is gay and is involved in GLBT activism for quite a long time. He was the spokesman for the National Coming Out Project… oh, about 10 years ago or so. He’s done a bunch of public service announcements as well.
To the OP, I nominate:
Skippy from Family Ties. Why? Well, his name is Skippy for one, and because he clearly had a crush on Alex P. Keaton, no matter how much he claimed to be in love with Mallory (denial, denial, denial).
I’m sure Buffy would take issue with you on that assessment. <G>
I’m surprised no mention of Cory and Shawn on BOY MEETS WORLD. Cory’s marriage to Topanga is going to ultimately end up JERRY SPRINGER- he and Shawn wanted to do each other worse than the duos on MOONLIGHTING and WHO’S THE BOSS combined.
I meant the character. Dang it…what was his name? Jonathan. I had to look it up at the IMDB.
BTW, I remember him playing Paul on “As The World Turns” a gazillion years ago. That was waaaaay before “Who’s the Boss?”