Takashi Shirogane

Takashi Shirogane more commonly known as Shiro is a gay character from Voltron: Legendary Defender.

Biography
Shiro was a member of the Galaxy Garrison team sent to Kerberos. While there they were captured by the Galra empire and tortured. Shiro eventually escaped and was able to make it back to earth, where he was rescued by his friend, Keith, and several members of the Galaxy Garrison, Lance, Hunk and Pidge. The five find the blue lion of Voltron and acctivate it, causing them to fly all the way to Arus. There they met Princess Allura and her adviser Coran. They told them the history of Voltron and asked them to become paladins. Once the other four lions were found, the black lion awoke and Shiro became it's paladin.

Shiro leads the team through many missions before their final mission to try and take out Zarkon. During the fight something happens and Shiro suddenly disappears. He wakes up several months later in the clutches of the galra. He escapes and makes it back to Team Voltron.

Sexuality
The Voltron production team always had intentions of including some kind of LGBT+ representation in the reboot. The characters that were most commonly speculated about were Keith, Lance, Pidge, and Shiro, although all members of members of Team Voltron had some kind of LGBT+ headcanon attached to them.

Shiro was reveled to have been previously in a relationship with a man named Adam before the start of the series during the season seven premiere. There had been no previous mentions of Shiro being gay, but there had been a few hints, including when he tells Pidge that "Owning who you are is going to make you a better paladin."

Reception
The revelation that Shiro was gay was met with mostly positive reactions. The Voltron fandom made a lot of fan art in Shiro in gay pride flags and with his boyfriend Adam. The reaction turned negative a few weeks later with the release of Season 7.

Romances
Adam W.
 * Adam was Shiro's boyfried before he was sent on the Kerberos mission. Adam became worried that the mission would effect Shiro's degrading condition and thought he shouldn't go, but Shiro insisted that he should go. Adam breaks things off, and tells Shiro not to expect him to be waiting when he get's back from the mission.