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18 Gays Gone From TV Too Soon


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The editors over at AfterElton.com have compiled a list of 18 gay characters who went missing from the small screen too soon after their shows were canceled.

Leading the list is Fred Savage, who starred in the short-lived comedy Crumbs as a 20-something who is afraid to come out to his mom (the wickedly funny Jane Curtin) because she just got sprung from the loony bin. Crumbs would have fared better if the jokes had been just a tad more risqué, and it was ultimately yanked from ABC’s lineup after one season.

Other folks on the list include a pre-Heroes Zachary Quinto as Tori Spelling’s gay bestie Sasan on the semiautobiographical So NoTORIous and Zeljko Ivanek as Ray Fiske, the closeted lawyer who offed himself in the first season of the Glenn Close drama Damages.

Check out the whole list here.

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  • Name: Shane Lear
    Date posted: 12/12/2009 9:21:39 AM
    Hometown: Indianapolis

    Comment:

    In this day and age of cable television where you can find shows devoted to everything from children's beauty pageants to cake making to psychic kids, I would think there would be much more gay programming available. I think homosexuality still must really scare people (especially network executives) more than we expect. I'm sure this will all chane eventually, but how much longer do we have to wait? It's simply ridiculous!

  • Name: Phillip
    Date posted: 12/12/2009 1:56:23 AM
    Hometown: Reseda

    Comment:

    Does it count if a gay is killed in the first episode and comes as a ghost? Hex from BBCAmerica.

  • Name: Calvin
    Date posted: 12/11/2009 4:25:26 PM
    Hometown: Chicago, Edgewater

    Comment:

    It's good that television has gotten rid of 18 gay tv characters so soon. Not all gay people are the ugly stereotypes of hot 20-30-somethings, white, and self-loathing, grandiose homo-sexually abstinent 50+ year old men depicted on the small screen. And we never will be.



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