They desired to make their own flawed characters and story, without the pressures of a major studio to take it in a family-oriented direction.
Most importantly, his sexuality is one single aspect of a much more complex, flawed character.
Definitely a flawed character with apparently little or no insight into his own personality.
It dawned on him that he was very probably a flawed character.
The script showed him as a vulnerable, troubled, and flawed character.
We are left with heroic but flawed characters and not figures who are subject to the laws of society.
Did it ever occur to you that women like Don etc because he's a fascinating, flawed character?
A deeply flawed character who lied to his friends for personal gain?
Any man of flawed character would have stumbled into the Nixon errors.
He pins failed cold war policies on what he sees as Truman's flawed character.