Did Colin Morgan play a gay character?

Answer 1

Yes! He played several. For TV shows, the most popular would be as "John Leary" in the Christmas Special of "The Catherine Tate Show." This is done as a comedy, about his family outing him out to their church, his friends, and each other - the funniest of which is the edible present that he got for Christmas and being caught in bed with another boy. This is not to mention the homoerotic subtext of "Merlin": the only reason for his life and his magic to start having meaning, is when he finds out that his entire life is for only one purpose (to unite Albion with the Prince of Camelot). He takes this to extreme even as magic is outlawed as his whole life slowly starts to revolve only around the idea of wanting to see Arthur safe and successful, leaving a trail of his dead loved ones, betrayed friends, and his innocence, sense of who he is (as stated by Gilli), freedom (being a magic user), and happiness along the way. If all that sacrifice is not love (bromance or otherwise), then I don't know what is.

As for stage, he has played homosexual characters in two plays. The first one is as "Jimmy 'Rosehips'" who is a suspect in a recent murder in the play called "A Prayer for my Daughter." He is associated with Vietnam War Veteran Sean who treats him as a 'daughter' but may or may not actually use him as a catamite. In the second act of this play, he is forced to strip down to full-on nudity, which he ultimately uses to turn the tide: seducing an older man who is his interrogator by sitting on his lap but then stealing his gun away. His most recent gay character is as "Carlos" in the play "Our Private Life." Here he plays a compulsive fantasist in a Colombian village who believes he was abused as a child.

Outside his professional roles, Colin is very popular with both fangirls and fanboys and gay men due to his pixie and twink looks and build, not to mention his sense of vulnerability. He is most often linked with costar Bradley James because of their intense "bromance" on and off screen, as evidenced by the Video Diaries, Quests, Road Trips, Interviews, and even sightings of them together everywhere outside of work (much to the glee of their fans).