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Number of gay characters on TV at all time high: ‘Glee,’ ‘True Blood’ have the most
Life Site News ^ | October 6, 2012 | John JALSEVAC

Posted on 10/06/2012 2:35:18 PM PDT by NYer

HOLLYWOOD, October 5, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Never before have there been so many homosexual characters portrayed on broadcast and cable television, according to the latest report from the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD).

The 17th annual Where We Are On TV report found that LGBT characters account for 4.4 percent of scripted series regulars in the 2012-2013 broadcast television schedule. This is up from 2.9 percent in 2011, 3.9 percent in 2010, 3 percent in 2009, 2.6 percent in 2008 and 1.1 percent in 2007.

GLAAD’s study reviewed 97 scripted television programs scheduled to air this upcoming season on broadcast networks, and counted a total of 701 series regular characters. Thirty-one of those are lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT), as are an additional 19 recurring characters.

ABC has the highest amount with 5.2 percent (10 out of 194) of their regular characters identifying as LGBT. After leading last year, Fox is in second with six LGBT characters out of 118 total series regulars (5.1 percent). However, Fox’s Glee is the broadcast television show with the most number of regular and recurring homosexual characters, with six.


True Blood was the cable TV show with the highest number of homosexual characters.

GLAAD also said that CBS “improved” and will feature four LGBT characters out of 142 series regulars (2.8 percent), up from 0.7 percent last year. The increase came after GLAAD lambasted the network in a 2010 report, prompting CBS President Nina Tassler to apologize and pledge to “do better.”

On mainstream cable networks, the number of announced LGBT series regular characters has also increased to 35, and will also feature 26 recurring characters for a total of 61 LGBT characters.

This year Showtime features the greatest number of LGBT characters on cable with 12, seven of which are series regulars. Once again this year True Blood is the show on cable television with the most number of LGBT characters, with six of them.

“It is vital for networks to weave complex and diverse storylines of LGBT people in the different programs they air,” said GLAAD President Herndon Graddick. “When young LGBT people see loving couples like Callie and Arizona on Grey’s Anatomy or Degrassi‘s confident transgender high school student Adam Torres, they find characters they can look up to and slowly start building the courage to live authentically.”


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1 posted on 10/06/2012 2:35:23 PM PDT by NYer
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To: wagglebee; little jeremiah

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2 posted on 10/06/2012 2:35:58 PM PDT by NYer
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To: NYer

“Fox’s Glee is the broadcast television show with the most number of regular and recurring homosexual characters, with six.”

Now there is a shocker.


3 posted on 10/06/2012 2:38:14 PM PDT by Condor 63
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How many positive Christian conservative characters??

lol


4 posted on 10/06/2012 2:43:56 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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So 4.4% of characters on TV (not counting the "newshole" characters) are mentally ill sex perverts; of course they are portrayed as wonderful, happy human beings, much better than nasty sicko homophobes... And yet in truth, at most 2% of the population (at any given time) are homosexuals. Now, if they would portray homosexuals as they REALLY are, and the "gay life" for what it REALLY is - that would be excellent. But no, it's all propaganda. I wonder what the % of homosexuals in the media and in Hollywood is, hmm?

5 posted on 10/06/2012 2:44:04 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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or Degrassi‘s confident transgender high school student Adam Torres, they find characters they can look up to and slowly start building the courage to live authentically

"Authentically living" transexual. Right.

6 posted on 10/06/2012 2:44:15 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama likes to claim credit for getting Osama. Why hasn't he tried Khalid Sheikh Mohammed yet?)
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To: Condor 63

I cannot stand ‘men’ who talk like elementary school girls! So, I do not watch them or this crappy TV! No Ellen either! Don’t like women acting like they are sexy men!

My men need no gender counseling...!!!!...they are what God mad them.....

2ndChronicles 7:14...read and do!!


7 posted on 10/06/2012 2:49:21 PM PDT by YouGoTexasGirl
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I haven’t seen any of these gay tv characters. Must not be watching the ‘right’ shows.


8 posted on 10/06/2012 2:51:02 PM PDT by Glenmore
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To: YouGoTexasGirl

I haven’t seen any of these gay tv characters. Must not be watching the ‘right’ shows.


9 posted on 10/06/2012 2:51:08 PM PDT by Glenmore
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To: NYer
The homo agenda has stalled somewhat so the normalization of deviation has been acceleration by the Lefts’ “entertainment” cells.

Won't work because as long as boys like girls and girls like boys the gag reflex at alternatives is an immutable biological reality.

You can make normal people afraid to express themselves through political correctness but you can't stop them from retching at the nauseating image of homosex—unlike homosexuality, THAT reaction is genetically predetermined.

10 posted on 10/06/2012 2:52:04 PM PDT by Happy Rain ("Water is wet and Obama is a liar.")
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This really nauseates me:

“It is vital for networks to weave complex and diverse storylines of LGBT people in the different programs they air,” said GLAAD President Herndon Graddick. “When young LGBT people see loving couples like Callie and Arizona on Grey’s Anatomy or Degrassi‘s confident transgender high school student Adam Torres, they find characters they can look up to and slowly start building the courage to live authentically.”

IOW they want pure unadulterated propganda, for recruitment purposes. We do need to know about the "gay life" - but the TRUTH!

11 posted on 10/06/2012 2:52:26 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: YouGoTexasGirl

It is a scary thing when your country starts portraying the abnormal as an ideal. There are a few things that can be read about in the Bible about that too - no scratch that.

There are a few things that can be read about in the history books about that. At least until they start re-writing the history books.


12 posted on 10/06/2012 2:55:19 PM PDT by Condor 63
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To: GeronL; NYer; little jeremiah

How many positive Christian conservative characters??

Spirited: Bigotted, narrow-minded, hateful, heterosexist homophobes have no place in our “enlightened, tolerant, rainbow-colored, diverse” society. (sarc)


13 posted on 10/06/2012 2:56:15 PM PDT by spirited irish
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To: NYer

If normal people would not watch shows that feature perversion, they would soon be off the air. Does anyone bother to monitor what their teens watch?


14 posted on 10/06/2012 2:57:33 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: NYer

>>....Degrassi‘s confident transgender high school student Adam Torres, they find characters they can look up to and slowly start building the courage to live authentically.”

That would be funny if it wasn’t so sad. Using a girl who pretends to be a boy to find the courage to live AUTHENTICALLY!


15 posted on 10/06/2012 3:00:59 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: GeronL
How many positive Christian conservative characters??

Off the top of my head the first thought that comes to mind is: 21. All in one family. Correction: we need to factor in the two grandchildren which brings the total to 23 :-)


The Duggar Family

16 posted on 10/06/2012 3:01:46 PM PDT by NYer
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To: NYer
LGBT

Lickers
Gobblers
Badda boom both bride and groom
Transformers (more than meets the eye, Transformers, freak jobs in disguise)

17 posted on 10/06/2012 3:05:33 PM PDT by Happy Rain ("Water is wet and Obama is a liar.")
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To: NYer

People enjoy watching freaks, I watch no network TV.


18 posted on 10/06/2012 3:06:06 PM PDT by boomop1 (term limits will only save this country.)
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To: NYer
I'm finding it harder and harder not to hate these people.

Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord?
And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?
I hate them with complete hatred;
I count them my enemies.

19 posted on 10/06/2012 3:11:16 PM PDT by Edward Teach
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To: Happy Rain

Also television has become the medium to reach only the bottom-feeders; most people are much more pro-active in either watching specific television programs that interest them, turning on a PC instead of the television, or doing just about anything else.

The days of thinking you can flood a few channels to force-feed deviant propaganda to a large viewing audience are dead; it died with the race/gender fictions that started decades ago. Thankfully people have a lot of options today...


20 posted on 10/06/2012 3:16:01 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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