Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Chapters: Dynasty minor characters, Steven Carrington, Fallon Carrington Colby, Adam Carrington, Dex Dexter, List of Dynasty characters, Krystle Carrington, Jeff Colby, Alexis Colby, Dominique Deveraux, Claudia Blaisdel Carrington, Blake Carrington, Amanda Carrington, Sammy Jo Carrington, Carrington family, Kirby Anders. Excerpt: There are several minor but significant characters featured in the ABC television series Dynasty. Recurring Steven Daniel Carrington is a fictional character on the American prime time soap opera Dynasty. Steven is noteworthy as one of the earliest gay main characters on American television. Despite identifying as homosexual, Steven has relationships with both women and men throughout the series. The role was originated by Al Corley in the show's first episode in 1981; Corley left at the end of the second season in 1982 after complaining about Steven's "ever-shifting sexual preferences" and wanting "to do other things." The character was recast in 1983 with Jack Coleman, the change in appearance attributed to plastic surgery after an oil rig explosion. Coleman remained on the show until 1988, but Corley returned to the role of Steven for the 1991 miniseries Dynasty: The Reunion when Coleman was unavailable due to scheduling conflicts. It is claimed that Steven was one of the first gay main characters to ever appear on a prime-time drama, and remains one of the most well-known. Suzanna Danuta Walters writes that because of the character, "in the annals of gay TV history, the '80s will be remembered as the Dynasty years." Initially the only son of series' patriarch Blake Carrington (John Forsythe), "handsome, blond hunk" Steven was a regular character featured in front-burner storylines for his entire run on the series. In contrast to his ruthless, warring parents and promiscuous sister, the character was poised as "the moral conscience of the family." Still, he was defined primarily by his sexuality, his struggle against it and the conflict it created within his family. Corley noted, "what attracted me was playing a gay character. The only gay television character I knew about at the time was Billy Crystal's gay character Jodie Campbell on ABC's Soap, which was a dark comedy." Dynasty co-creator Esther Shapiro noted in a 1981 Esquire magazine article that the