The Fans Have Spoken! Readers Rank Their Top 10 Favorite LGBTQ Characters in Broadway Musicals

It’s Pride Week, and in honor of the celebration of all things gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer, we asked readers to rank their favorite LGBTQ characters in Broadway musicals on Culturalist. We know it's tough to just choose just ten in a list including Celie from The Color Purple, Lola in Kinky Boots, Rod in Avenue Q, Roger De Bris in The Producers and tons more. The results are in—here's who you guys picked!


JOANNE (Rent)


FRANK-N-FURTER (The Rocky Horror Show)


COLLINS (Rent)


EMCEE (Cabaret)


ELDER MCKINLEY (The Book of Mormon)


MAUREEN (Rent)


LOLA (Kinky Boots)


ALISON BECHDEL (Fun Home)


HEDWIG (Hedwig and the Angry Inch)


ANGEL (Rent)