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In case some of you missed this controversy, this is from NBC:

So everyone who speculated that Zach, the best friend to indestructible Texas cheerleader Claire (and played by actor Thomas Dekker), was gay was right after all. Well, sort of. Apparently the initial intention was to make Zach gay, but somewhere along the way producer/showrunner Tim Kring decided to make him straight again in order to?do something. Now most fans don?t know this, and don?t really care, as Zach?s maybe-maybe not homosexuality really didn?t fit all that much into the show?s storylines. The belief was that Zach ?understood? Claire?s powers because he was an outcast, either because he was gay or he was a Goth kid. Either/or, right?