The TV Zone

We’ve had a bellyful of TV lists (almost as big a bellyful as we’ve had of Lou Dobbs), but this one actually piqued our interest.

The Top 25 Gay TV Characters countdown was voted by users of the LOGO channel’s AfterElton.com media site, choosing from a list of nearly 150 male-only nominees (leaving the girls to sister site AfterEllen.com).

Billy Crystal’s Jodie Dallas of “Soap” [left in photo] is there, of course – he was a TV breakthrough – and so are Rickie Vazquez of “My So-Called Life,” Kevin Walker of “Brothers & Sisters,” and Jack Harkness of “Torchwood.” The site also notes that half the top characters are played by “out” gay men.

Take a look at the list here.

And if you haven’t had the bellyful we have, you can get more in the new “TV Guide Book of Lists” (Running Press, $15), which inventories 296 pages of great and/or memorable episodes, guest stars, cartoon characters, teen idols, wacky sidekicks, sci-fi legends, feuds, deaths, and much more.