“I’m sure lots of people assumed I was gay,” says Coleman on reflection. “If I said ‘no,’ I would sound defensive. I would say ‘Is Alan Alda a surgeon in the Korean War?’ I got lots of fan mail from young gay men who were wrestling with it, and who thought it was great to see someone who didn’t hide and who wasn’t afraid.”
![2. The show featured one of the first prime time gay characters The show was progressive in the sense that it featured the gay character of Steven Carrington, who was first played first by Al Corley and then by Jack Coleman. Jack has said: “My feeling was that I was in a kind of a […] John Forsythe](https://i.pinimg.com/236x/8d/05/67/8d056726d7af6f232d8aa73a41484540--jack-coleman-my-feelings.jpg)
