List of made for television films with LGBT characters: Information from Answers.com

The following films made for television include central LGBT themes or characters.

Year	Title	Network	Character name	Actor	Notes
2008	Ice Blues	here!	Donald Strachey Timothy Callahan Kenny Kwon	Chad Allen Sebastian Spence Nelson Wong	Part of a series of films based on the Donald Strachey books.
2008	Kiss Me Deadly	here!	Jacob "Jake" Keane Paulo Jillian	Robert Gant	Jake Keane is an ex-spy drawn back into danger when his former partner turns up with her memory erased. Paulo is his lover and Jillian a friend with whom Jake has a daughter.
2008	Knight Rider	NBC	Carrie Ruvai	Sydney Tamiia Poitier	Pilot for the revival of the Knight Rider franchise.
2007	Battlestar Galactica: Razor	Sci Fi Channel	Helena Cain	Michelle Forbes
2006	Trapped!	here!	Samantha Dana	Alexandra Paul Michelle Wolff
2006	Wedding Wars	A&E	Shel Grandy Ted Moore	John Stamos Sean Maher	Shel is a wedding planner and goes on strike for gay rights while planning his straight brother's wedding. Ted is his lover.
2006	Totally Awesome	VH1	Yamagashi	James Hong	Parody of Miyagi from the Karate Kid films, Yamagashi is an elderly gay lecher.
2006	A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story	Lifetime	Gwen Araujo	J. D. Pardo
2005	Deadly Skies	here!	Donovan Mark	Antonio Sabato, Jr. Michael Boisvert	Film was released in multiple versions, with and without gay content.
2005	Tides of War	here!	Cmdr. Frank Habley Lt. Cmdr. Tom Palatonio	Adrian Paul Mike Doyle	Film was released in multiple versions, with and without gay content.
2004	Jack	Showtime	Paul	Ron Silver
2004	Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story	CTV	Marc Hall Jason	Aaron Ashmore Mak Fyfe
2003	Normal	HBO	Roy	Tom Wilkinson
2003	Soldier's Girl	Showtime	Calpernia Addams	Lee Pace
2002	Bobbie's Girl	Showtime	Bailey Lewis Roberta Langham	Bernadette Peters Rachel Ward	Shows committed relationship between two lesbian woman
2002	The Matthew Shepard Story	Showtime	Matthew Shepard	Shane Meier
2002	No Night is Too Long	BBC Two	Tim Cornish Ivo Steadman Thierry Massin	Lee Williams Marc Warren Salvatore Antonio	Tim is bisexual.
2001	What Makes a Family	Lifetime Television	Janine Neilssen Sandy Cataldi	Brooke Shields Cherry Jones	When Sandy dies suddenly, Janine must fight to keep the child Sandy bore through artificial insemination.
2001	A Girl Thing	Showtime, Hallmark	Lauren Travis Casey Montgomery	Elle Macpherson Kate Capshaw	Mini-series, first part deals with lesbian women.
2000	Common Ground	Showtime	Dorothy Nelson, Billy, McPherson, Gil Roberts, Tobias, Amos, Andy	Brittany Murphy, Jason Priestley, Mimi Rogers, Steven Weber, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, James LeGros, Andrew Airlie	Three short stories dealing with acceptance of gays and lesbians over three different decades.
2000	If These Walls Could Talk 2	HBO	Edith Tree Abby Hedley Linda Amy Fran Kal	Vanessa Redgrave Marian Seldes Michelle Williams Chloë Sevigny Sharon Stone Ellen DeGeneres	Three short stories dealing with lesbian women.
2000	The Truth About Jane	Lifetime	Jane Taylor Ms. Lynn Walcott Jimmy	Ellen Muth Alicia Lagano Kelly Rowan RuPaul
2000	Anatomy of a Hate Crime	MTV	Matthew Shepard	Cy Carter	First of three TV movies about Shepard's murder.
1999	Execution of Justice	Showtime	Harvey Milk	Peter Coyote	Adaptation of stage play about the assassination of Milk by Dan White.
1998	Gia	HBO	Gia Carangi	Angelina Jolie	Biopic about the bisexual supermodel.
1997	In the Gloaming	HBO	Danny	Robert Sean Leonard
1997	The Twilight of the Golds	Showtime	David Gold	Brendan Fraser
1995	Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story	NBC	Margarethe Cammermeyer Diane	Glenn Close Judy Davis
1995	The Price of Love	Fox	Bo	Jay R. Ferguson	16-year-old Bret (Peter Facinelli) is thrown out of his house. He runs away to Los Angeles, where he meets a hustler named Bo and becomes a hustler himself. Bo is gay but Bret is strictly gay-for-pay.
1994	Family Album	NBC	Lionel Thayer Paul Steel John	Joe Flanigan Paul Satterfield Joel Gretsch	Based on Danielle Steel's novel
1994	Roommates	NBC	Bill Thomas	Eric Stoltz
1992	Doing Time on Maple Drive	Fox	Matt Carter Kyle	William McNamara Bennett Cale	Family Drama
1992	Citizen Cohn	HBO	Roy Cohn	James Woods	Story of the life of Joseph McCarthy's controversial chief counsel Roy Cohn
1991	Our Sons	ABC	James, Donald Barnes	Hugh Grant Zeljko Ivanek	Family Drama
1991	The Lost Language of Cranes	BBC, PBS	Owen Benjamin, Philip, Elliot Abrahams, Geoffrey Lane Derek	Brian Cox Angus MacFadyen Corey Parker Rene Auberjonois, John Schlesinger	British production based upon American novel
1987	Two of Us	BBC	Matthew, Phil	Jason Rush Lee Whitlock
1986	Second Serve	CBS	Renée Richards	Vanessa Redgrave	Biopic of transsexual surgeon turned professional tennis player.
1985	An Early Frost	NBC	Michael Pierson Peter Hilton	Aidan Quinn D. W. Moffett	One of the first mainstream treatments of AIDS on American television.
1985	Consenting Adult	ABC	Jeff Lynd	Barry Tubb	TV movie about a family's struggle to accept their son's homosexuality. Based on a novel by Laura Z. Hobson, and also starring Marlo Thomas and Martin Sheen as the parents.
1983	Making of a Male Model	ABC	Chuck Lanyard	Jeff Conaway
1983	An Englishman Abroad	BBC	Guy Burgess	Alan Bates	Story of the chance encounter between gay "Cambridge spy" Burgess and actress Coral Browne.
1981	Sidney Shorr: A Girl's Best Friend	NBC	Sidney Shorr	Tony Randall	Pilot film for the series Love, Sidney.
1978	A Question of Love	ABC	Linda Ray Guettner Barbara Moreland	Gena Rowlands Jane Alexander
1977	Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn	ABC	Alexander Duncan	Leigh McCloskey	Sequel to the telefilm Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway. Alexander becomes a hustler in Los Angeles.
1977	In the Glitter Palace	NBC	Ellen Lange Casey Walker Daisy Dolon Ricky Grace Mayo Kendis Winslow	Barbara Hershey Diana Scarwid Carole Cook Lynn Marta Tisha Sterling Salome Jens	Ellen hires her ex-boyfriend Chad Everett to defend her lover Casey from a charge that she murdered Norma Addison (Gloria LeRoy). Daisy is a nightclub entertainer. Ricky is hiding a child she lost in a custody suit. Grace was hired by Norma to seduce women so Norma can blackmail them. Kendis is a judge and another blackmail victim.
1977	Terraces	NBC	Dr. Roger Cabe Alex Bengston	Lloyd Bochner James Phipps	A married doctor has a sweet, heartfelt affair with a younger man. When the doctor breaks it off for the sake of his wife and family, his young lover cannot cope and takes drastic measures.
1976	Song of Myself	CBS	Walt Whitman Peter Doyle	Rip Torn Brad Davis
1975	The Naked Civil Servant	ITV (Thames)	Quentin Crisp	John Hurt
1975	Cage Without a Key	NBC	Tommy	Jonelle Allen	Tommy has been described by gay media researcher Steven Capsuto as probably the earliest well-developed gay teen character on television as well as the first well-developed non-white gay character.
1974	Born Innocent	NBC	Moco	Nora Heflin	In a controversial scene, Christine Parker (Linda Blair) is raped with a mop handle by a girl gang led by Moco in a juvenile detention center.
1972	That Certain Summer	ABC	Doug Salter Gary McClain	Hal Holbrook Martin Sheen	A teenager deals with the knowledge that his divorced father is gay.

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