Omar Little from The Wire is probably my top pick. He's a huge part of that series and just rocks it the whole way through.
I was a big Renly Baratheon fan from Game of Thrones. I liked the storyline with him where he had the weakest claim to the throne, but probably would have made the best king.
When it comes to LGBT characters on screen, I like it best when their sexuality isn't the main focus of the character. I find that so many times, gay and transgendered characters are portrayed with their sexuality being the only noteworthy thing to say about them, and that drives me nuts. It just feels demeaning. I mean, more often than not we see characters on television where their entire arc and only defining characteristic is that they're gay. I mean, I know Glee is a popular show, but Kurt is a horrible character. If he wasn't gay, would there be a single reason for him to exist as a character on that show? Nope. And that's just poor writing.
I mean, Willow on Buffy, Omar on The Wire and Renly on Game of Thrones are great examples of how gay characters should be written. Their sexuality is never hidden or anything like that, but they're all important to the plot and the story, so who they like to sleep with never really matters. I mean, I don't think of Willow as "the gay character" on Buffy. I just think of her as another person, and that's how it should be, because in all honesty, who you sleep with really doesn't (or shouldn't) matter. But when gay characters are written as little more than stereotypes, that's what the thinking becomes, and that's just dumb to me.
