A new report from the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation has found that gay characters have hit an all-time high on broadcast TV — but the news in the 14th annual survey isn’t all good for the LGBT community.
While there are 18 regular LGBT characters on broadcast television for the new 2009-10 season — ; an overall improvement of 3 percent — of those, only one is a lesbian: Dr. Arizona Robbins (Jessica Capshaw).
Notable improvements include NBC (three gay characters) and Fox (four) — with freshman hit Glee cited as an example of the network’s strides. In last week’s episode — in which the school’s football team performed Beyonce’s “All the Single Ladies” — series regular Chris Colfer’s character, Kurt, came out to his father.
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While ABC leads the way with eight characters, CBS, however, has no gay characters out of its 132 series regulars.
“CBS alone is a network that continues to weed out gay and lesbian programming, they’re really out of step with network television,” GLAAD president Jarrett Barrios said.
Of the 18 LGBT series regular LGBT characters, three female characters are bisexuals, and the remainder are gay men.
Read the full GLAAD report here.
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