Gay Characters on TV Reach Record High This Season

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Gay Characters on

            TV Reach Record High This Season
       GLAAD's annual
            survey of LGBT representation on major network television
            shows has found a dramatic increase in gay and lesbian
            characters. This       season there will be 16 LGBT series
            regulars, double what was on TV last       year and the
            highest recorded in the 13 years the survey has been
            conducted.      
 Outtraveler Staff
          
          Sep 24, 2008
          
        
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       According to a
            survey by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation,
            the number of LGBT characters on broadcast television will
            double to 16       this season, reports The Hollywood       Reporter.
       That
            marks the greatest representation on major-network
            scripted       shows GLAAD has recorded in the 13 years it
            has been conducting the       survey and a turnaround from
            the declining numbers in the past two years.     
       GLAAD president
            Neil Giuliano told the Reporter that the increase
            "shows how far       many networks have come in developing
            complex, multilayered lesbian, gay,       bisexual, and
            transgender characters."     
       The survey
            examined 616 regular series characters. In the upcoming
            season       LGBT characters will make up 2.6% of them, up
            from 1.1% in 2007. Fox had       the greatest leap from no
            LGBT characters last season to five this
            season, the most of any network. CBS is the only
            network that will       have no gay or lesbian characters as
            series regulars; the CW, home of       Gossip Girl,
            has just one.  (The       Advocate)     

        
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Gay Characters on
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Gay Characters on TV Reach Record High This Season

GLAAD's annual survey of LGBT representation on major network television shows has found a dramatic increase in gay and lesbian characters. This season there will be 16 LGBT series regulars, double what was on TV last year and the highest recorded in the 13 years the survey has been conducted.

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Gay Characters on
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