GLAAD Counts TV's Gay Characters Including the One Lesbian on Primetime
by Lesley Goldberg | Article Date: 10/01/2009 10:37 AM
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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