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Compared to 2010 figures, nearly twice as many American universities and colleges earned five-star “gay-friendliness” ratings this year from Campus Pride, a national non-profit that works to create “safer, more LGBT-inclusive” colleges.

The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation's annual report on the media's portrayal of LGBT people contains results that range from surprising (ABC Family is rated "excellent") to perhaps not-so-surprising (CBS is rated "adequate" after it was called a "failure" last year). Each year, the GLAAD Network Responsibility Index grades the networks based on the percentage of prime-time programming that featured LGBT characters, and assigns the networks a grade of excellent, good, adequate or failing.