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He steals from the rich and gives to the poor. In Nottingham, England, the legend of Robin Hood is the story of a hero forever locked in combat against the dastardly sheriff and his henchman, Guy of Gisbourne.

He’s appeared many times on screen over the years; Kevin Costner in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Cary Elwes in Men in Tights, Jonas Armstrong in the BBC TV series, and Taron Egerton in the box office bomb that nearly killed any ideas of future adaptations. These are just to name a few, and now another adaptation is in the works - and this one is set to bring a Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings alum to his core cast list. Per Deadline, Sean Bean has joined the cast of the new Robin Hood series at MGM+ that's in the works. He will play the Sheriff of Nottingham.

We asked you which gay or bisexual TV characters you think are the best, and you told us – with tens of thousands of votes cast.

Now we have the results.

But first, a few interesting statistics.

We have quite a few familiar faces – characters who made our last poll of the best gay and bisexual characters two and a half years ago – and a few missing ones, namely Vince D’Angelo (from Will & Grace), George Huang (from Law & Order: Svu), and Waylon Smithers (from The Simpsons), all of whom didn’t even make the top 50 this time around.

Meanwhile, we also have many new faces – from shows that have debuted since our last poll.

Every single character except two comes from a show that ran in the 00s (although some shows, like Will & Grace, did debut in the late 90s). The exceptions? Jodie Dallas, played by Billy Crystal, on Soap...

We've all had that friendship that was cut short for whatever reason — because your family moved, because you switched jobs, because you were a "greaser" and they were a "soc" — and we're left to wonder: what might have been?

The same is true for gays on television. Television programs are canceled for a lot of reasons, and it's definitely not always because of a lack of quality.

But what if these characters had stuck around a little longer? Who knows what kind of adoring or intimate relationship we viewers might have developed with them?

Here are a few of the folks I'd like to rescue from the Island of Lost Gay TV Characters:

Fred Savage as Mitch Crumb with co-star Jane Curtain

Mitch Crumb (from Crumbs)

If there was ever a show that coulda been a contender, it was Crumbs, a 2006 vehicle for a grown-up Fred Savage (who had become...

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