We thought this would be easier -- the hardest part, we imagined, would be coming up with just ten. Surely if we thought really hard, wikipedia'ed (we expected a "lesbian characters in plays" list of some sort to appear ... it did not), checked out the glbtq encyclopedia and googled some shit, we'd be rushing to narrow down the contenders by Sunday afternoon. I mean, there's Maureen & Joanne from RENT, to start with. And then ... um.