Battle of the Network Gays! It's Max vs. Max vs. Cameron & Mitchell vs. Marshall!

Every week we're going to pick the gays who made the biggest splash on television and let you, the keepers of the flame, decide who will be crowned Gay of the Week. We'll announce the winner the following Monday, and that champion will reign until a new set of challengers are unveiled the following week.

Here are this week's nominees:

Max, Make It Or Break It

In this week's finale of Make It or Break It, gymnast Max came out to one of his teammates as bisexual. That would have been an exciting development on its own, since bisexual male characters are pretty rare on TV, much less bisexual male teen characters, but we also got to see Max discuss bisexuality with a level of depth rarely seen on television. It's too bad those developments didn't come sooner, or else we would have been watching Make It or Break It all this time.

Max Blum, Happy Endings

After seeing that their clumsy, permanently-disheveled friend Shershow had managed to clean up and give himself a makeover, the gang declared Max the new Shershow. Insisting that they were wrong, Max bet that he'd be able to impress them when he officiated over Shershow's wedding, and he certainly won that bet, delivering a moving ceremony.

Typically, the immature slacker who goes out of the apartment wearing a pajama top and swim shorts is a straight guy constantly trying to avoid his wife or girlfriend's calls of responsibility. However, on Happy Endings, that character is a gay man. Max cannot be described simply, as we saw this week. He may be a slacker most of the time, but he's certainly capable of cleaning up and fully living up to the responsibilities he's promised to fulfill.

Mitchell Pritchett & Cameron Tucker, Modern Family

Mitchell and Cameron may have started out this week as frustrated parents needing a break from Lily, but by the end of the day they were willing to consider becoming parents again. For Cameron, that meant being an adviser to Manny, helping his nephew at sports so that Manny could impress a girl. The contrast between Cameron and Manny was striking, as Cameron is a talented jock and Manny primarily uses sports equipment to stir up a bubble bath or as a tool to use in baking. Meanwhile, Mitchell spent the day with his sister, Claire, reminding him that having a sibling made it much easier to deal with his parents' insanity. Taking separate paths, they both came to realize what a value it was to be parents, despite the headaches.

Marshall Gregson, United States of Tara

Marshall got to have his student film screened in New York this week and it forced a confrontation with his father, Max. The film, about how his father stood by his mother, did bring out some of Max's frustrations over how the family has lived in denial about the serious nature of Tara's disorder, treating it as a personality quirk instead of a major disease.

We've been watching Marshall slowly realize that growing up with his parents made for a tough childhood, and now he's starting to bring it up to his parents. Hopefully, we'll see Marshall get a chance to wrap up his character development before we get to the final chapter of United States of Tara.

Vote for your favorite by Midnight PST Sunday. Be sure to check back on Monday to see who you've picked as Gay of the Week!