Jam Bond's first openly gay character reveal No Time to Die ma me tear up - CNET

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• HAFIZE GAYE ERKAN: DAS IST DIE FR, DIE SICH M ERDOğAN ANLEGT
• WATCH VIRAL FOOTAGE OF KG VON ADMTG TO BEG GAY TO THE POLICE
• JAM BOND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER REVEAL NO TIME TO DIE MA ME TEAR UP
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
• 'BURY YOUR GAYS': WHY ARE SO MANY LBIAN TV CHARACTERS DYG OFF?
• WHY DO THE GAY CHARACTER ALWAYS HAVE TO DIE?{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}TVBY BRENT HARTGERMARCH 9, 2010/3:32 PMBY BRENT HARTGERMARCH 9, 2010 / 3:32 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"WHY DO THE GAY CHARACTER ALWAYS HAVE TO DIE?","DATEPUBLISHED":"2010-03-09T20:32:31.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2010-03-09T20:32:31.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"BRENT HARTGER","KEYWORDS":"THE BACKLOT","ARTICLESECTN":"TV"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}OKAY, SO THE HEADLE OF THIS ARTICLE IS A LTLE MISLEADG: GAY CHARACTERS ON TELEVISN DON’T ALWAYS DIE. PLENTY OF GAY AND BISEXUAL CHARACTERS HAVE LIVED LONG HAPPY LIV – AND MORE ARE LIVG THAT WAY ALL THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT LET’S FACE : SOMETIM SEEMS LIKE THE GAY CHARACTER ALWAYS DI. AND THEY ALMOST CERTALY DIE MORE THAN THEIR NUMBERS WOULD {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE ATHS OF THE TWO GAY CHARACTERS ON SPARTAC: BLOOD AND SAND ARE ONLY THE MOST RECENT, BUT THERE ARE PLENTY OF OTHER EXAMPL:{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DALE TOMASSON, BIG LOVE: SUICI (2010){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FELIX GAETA, BATTLTAR GALACTI: EXECUTED (2009){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}EDDIE, TE BLOOD: MURRED (2008) {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ALEX, IN TREATMENT: SUICI (2008) {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IANTO JON, TORCHWOOD: MURRED BY ALIENS (2009) {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}11-12, THE PRISONER: SUICI (2009) {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}909, THE PRISONER: MURRED (2009){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}JOSEPH, KGS: MURRED (2009) {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}OMAR LTLE, THE WIRE: MURRED (2008) {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}RAY FISKE, DAMAG: SUICI (2007) {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}STEVE, REAPER: SUALTY OF MON WAR (2008) {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}VO, THE SOPRANOS: MURRED (2006) {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SALIM, SLEEPER CELL (2006) {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CASSADY CASABLANS, VERONI MARS: SUICI (2006) {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND THE ARE JT THE AD REGULAR, OR AT LEAST FEATURED, TV CHARACTERS. GAY OR BISEXUAL MEN HAVE EQUENTLY POPPED UP AS “GUT” CHARACTERS ON SHOWS LIKE CSI, THE MENTALIST, GHOST WHISPERER, SUPERNATURAL, AND LAW & ORR – ONLY TO DIE, OFTEN BEFORE THE OPENG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}INED, ADDN TO THE AD GAYS ON SPARTAC AND BIG LOVE, THE LAST FEW WEEKS HAVE ALSO SEEN GAY VICTIMS ON LAW & ORR: SVU AND NCIS: LOS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHAT’S GOG ON HERE? DO HOLLYWOOD HAVE A GAY ATH WISH?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LET’S GET ONE THG STRAIGHT: A GAY OR BISEXUAL CHARACTER DYG IS NOT NECSARILY AN DITN OF HOMOPHOBIA OR BIAS. CHARACTERS DIE ON TELEVISN A LOT. IT’S LLED “DRAMA” FOR A REASON, AND THERE’S NO MORE CLASSIC A NOUEMENT FOR A CHARACTER’S STORY ARC, OR CG CINT FOR ANOTHER CHARACTER’S SUBSEQUENT EMOTNAL VELOPMENT, THAN THE ATH OF ANOTHER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SPARATAC: BLOOD AND SAND'S SPARTAC FDS PIETROS' HANGG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SURE ENOUGH, “CHARACTER VELOPMENT” IS UALLY HOW THE WRERS JTIFY THE ATHS: ’S HOW JOSS WHEDON JTIFIED THE ATH OF TARA ON BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER; ’S HOW RSELL T. DAVI FEND THE ATH OF IANTO ON TORCHWOOD; AND ’S HOW STEVEN DEKNIGHT MOST RECENTLY EXPLAED THE ATHS OF BAR AND PIETROS ON SPARTAC: BLOOD AND {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND MAYBE MAK SENSE CERTA WAYS THAT GAY CHARACTERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO DIE THAN STRAIGHT CHARACTERS. SHOWS LIKE COLD CASE AND GREY’S ANATOMY HAVE FEATURED EXTREMELY TOUCHG EPISOS WHERE GUT GAY CHARACTERS DIED, BUT THE EPISOS THEMSELV WERE DRAMATIZG THE BIAS THAT GAY AND BISEXUAL PEOPLE OFTEN STILL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}STILL, WHAT HOLLYWOOD WRERS NEVER MENTN, AND UALLY DON’T EVEN SEEM TO BE AWARE OF, IS THE FACT THAT THE (OFTEN BTAL) ATH OF A GAY CHARACTER IS A LONGSTANDG WRERS’ {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}NEXT PAGE! THE DEAD GAY GUY CLICHE! {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN 1989, FILM HISTORIAN VO RSO PUBLISHED A SEND EDN OF HIS NOW-LANDMARK BOOK THE CELLULOID CLOSET, ANALYZG THE WAY GAY AND BISEXUAL PEOPLE HAD BEEN STEREOTYPED SCE THE CEPTN OF CEMA, CLUDG THE EQUENCY WH WHICH GAY CHARACTERS ARE KILLED OFF, OFTEN SEEMGLY “PUNISHED” FOR VLATG SOCIAL NORMS. HE EVEN CLUD A “NECROLOGY” WH A LIST OF 39 ATHS MAJOR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}RSO END THE BOOK WH A NOW-FAMO RANT: “IT HAS BEE CLEAR…THAT WHAT WE NEED IS NO MORE FILMS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY … GAY VISIBILY HAS NEVER REALLY BEEN AN ISSUE THE MOVI. GAYS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN VISIBLE. IT’S HOW THEY HAVE BEEN VISIBLE THAT HAS REMAED OFFENSIVE FOR ALMOST A CENTURY.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ALBY FDS DALE'S HANGG BODY ON BIG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THGS HAVE CHANGED A LOT FOR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN SCE RSO’S BOOK WAS PUBLISHED, BOTH ON-SCREEN AND {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT HAVE THEY CHANGED PLETELY? OR HAS THE CLICHé OF THE DEAD GAY GUY SIMPLY MUTATED ONTO TELEVISN A MORE SOPHISTITED FORM?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THAT MIGHT BE PART OF , BUT A MORE SATISFYG EXPLANATN IS THAT GAY CHARACTERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO DIE SIMPLY BEE THEY’RE FAR MORE LIKELY TO BE SUPPORTG, NOT LEADG, {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}NOTICED A LOT OF AIN AMERIN POLICE CHIEFS, DOCTORS, AND JUDG ON TV OVER THE YEARS? LATELY, THERE’S ALSO THE CLICHé OF THE INDIAN AMERIN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IT’S NOT JT THAT WELL-MEANG PRODUCERS AND STG DIRECTORS OF TELEVISN SHOWS WANT TO REMD VIEWERS THAT THERE ARE, FACT, PLENTY OF MORY POLICE CHIEFS, JUDG, AND DOCTORS (PECIALLY URBAN AREAS, WHERE MANY OF THE SHOWS ARE SET).{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IT’S ALSO THE FACT THAT LEADG CHARACTERS ON TELEVISN ARE ALMOST ALL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SO RPONDG TO PRSURE OM VIEWERS AND MORY ACTIVISTS, WORKS AND PRODUCERS MAKE THEIR SHOWS MORE RACIALLY DIVERSE BY STG PERIPHERAL CHARACTERS LIKE DOCTORS, JUDG, AND POLICE CHIEFS WH MORY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HOLLYWOOD ULD ALSO MAKE THEIR SHOWS MORE DIVERSE BY WRG MORE MORY LEADG CHARACTERS, AND THERE ARE HTS THE NEW SLATE OF PILOTS NOW VELOPMENT THAT THEY MAY BE MAKG PROGRS TOWARD THAT. IN THE MEANTIME, THEY DO THE NEXT BT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN SHORT, THE STAT QUO IS THE TV CLICHé WHERE ALL THE LEADG CHARACTERS, THE ON WH THE PLITED, TERTG AND ONGOG STORYL, TEND TO BE WHE, WHILE MANY OF THE PERIPHERAL OR SUPPORTG CHARACTERS TEND TO BE RACIAL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}UNFORTUNATELY, THIS RERC ANOTHER STEREOTYPE WHICH WHE PEOPLE ARE POWERFUL AND ACTIVE, WHILE NON-WHE PEOPLE (EVEN ON POSNS OF “THORY”) ARE REACTIVE AND OFTEN EFFECTUAL (TO RERCE THE MA CHARACTER’S “NOBLE," POSIVE QUALI).{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FELIX GAETA AWAS EXECUTN ON BATTLTAR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE SAME THG IS TE FOR GAY CHARACTERS ON TELEVISN: THEY PLAY THE SUPPORTG ROL, NOT THE LEADG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN FACT, THE CURRENT NUMBER OF LEADG GAY CHARACTERS ON BROADST SCRIPTED AMERIN TELEVISN IS … ZERO. (CAMERON AND MCHELL ON MORN FAY, AND KEV ON BROTHERS & SISTERS MAY BE LEADG CHARACTERS, BUT ONLY ENSEMBLE STS.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ALL THE OTHER MOST WELL-KNOWN GAY CHARACTERS – KURT ON GLEE, MARC ON UGLY BETTY, CALV ON GREEK, AND SO ON, ALONG WH ALL THE CHARACTERS LISTED ABOVE – ARE SENDARY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LEADG CHARACTERS ALMOST NEVER DIE (UNLS THE ACTOR MANDS A RAISE!).{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SUPPORTG CHARACTERS, MEANWHILE, SOMETIM DO. AFTER ALL, DRAMATILLY SPEAKG, ’S THEIR JOB TO SUPPORT THE LEADG CHARACTER – TO BOLSTER HIS OR HER EMOTNAL JOURNEY WHICHEVER WAY IS THE MOST {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}NEXT PAGE! HOW E WE NEVER GET TO BE SPARTAC? {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ON A SHOW LIKE SPARTAC: BLOOD AND SAND WHERE THE TLE CHARACTER WILL OBVLY EVENTUALLY BEE THE OUTRAGED REBEL SLAVE OF HISTORY, MAK PERFECT SENSE THAT BAR AND PIETROS, ALONG WH MANY OTHER NOCENT PEOPLE, HAVE TO DIE, BTAL, TRAGIC WAYS. IT’S WHAT MOTIVAT SPARTAC TO BEE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ON CRIM SHOWS LIKE CSI AND SVU THAT ARE ABOUT CRIME AND MURR, ALSO MAK SENSE THAT ANY “GUT” GAY ROL WOULD BE MURR VICTIMS (OR MURRERS, ANOTHER POTENTIAL GAY CLICHE). THE SHOWS SERVE CRED FOR BEG AT LEAST SOMEWHAT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT TO ALL THOSE WRERS WHO JTIFY THE ATHS OF THEIR GAY CHARACTERS WH THE ARGUMENT THAT “’S ALL ABOUT CHARACTER AND STORY”: YOU YOURSELF ARE NOT SEEG THE WHOLE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SURE, THE PARTICULAR STORYLE OF ANY GIVEN SHOW, THE GAY GUY MIGHT HAVE TO DIE. BUT THAT SHOW EXISTS A LARGER CULTURAL NTEXT, ONE THAT CLUS THIS LONGSTANDG WRERS’ TROPE OF THE DEAD GAY GUY, AND ONE THAT CLUS ALMOST NO LEADG GAY CHARACTERS. INED, OF THE MANY VAR "CRIME" ANCHIS, ONLY A SGLE SHOW, LAW & ORR: SVU, HAS A REGULAR GAY CHARACTER – A MOR ONE WHO DIDN'T E OUT UNTIL EIGHT YEARS TO THE SHOW'S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE ARGUMENT IS OFTEN MA THAT, “IF GAY VIEWERS WANT GAY CHARACTERS TO BE TREATED EQUALLY ON TELEVISN, THEY HAVE TO ACCEPT THAT SOMETIM BAD THGS WILL HAPPEN TO THEM.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT THAT’S PRECISELY THE POT: AS LONG AS THERE ARE NO LEADG GAY CHARACTERS, GAY CHARACTERS AREN’T BEG TREATED EQUALLY. WE’RE GETTG ALL OF THE TRMA AND TRAGEDY OF THE GAY ATH (AND THE VRL DIRECTED AT THE GAY VILLA), BUT ALMOST NONE OF THE PLEASURE OF THE GAY LEADG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}RAY FISKE CIS TO END ALL ON DAMAG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND JT AS WH RACIAL MORI, ’S MAKG ALL GAY PEOPLE SEEM LS POWERFUL, MORE LIKELY TO BE A “VICTIM,” THAN STRAIGHT PEOPLE. WE NEVER GET TO BE SPARTAC, THE GUY WHO MAK TO THE END OF THE STORY, THE GUY WHO ENDS UP CHANGG THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THERE ED TO BE A SIAR CLICHé HORROR MOVI WHERE SEEMED LIKE THE BLACK SUPPORTG CHARACTER ALWAYS HAD TO DIE – FOR EXACTLY THE SAME REASONS THAT GAY CHARACTERS NOW SO OFTEN DIE. THAT'S CHANGED SOMEWHAT – PART, BEE THE CLICHé WAS SO WILY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}EVERY SHOW ON TELEVISN WH A GAY CHARACTER PROBABLY SERV SOME MEASURE OF CRED (ASSUMG ’S NOT A BLATANT OR OFFENSIVE STEREOTYPE), BEE SUCH CHARACTERS ARE STILL NTROVERSIAL FOR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SO IS UNFAIR OR UNTERPRODUCTIVE FOR GAY VIEWERS TO ASK, LIKE OLIVER TWIST, MORE OF HOLLYWOOD?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IF SO, ’S ALSO UNTER-PRODUCTIVE FOR AIN AMERINS TO LOOK AT ALL THOSE MORY JUDG AND POLICE CHIEFS AND DOCTORS, AND SAY, “THANKS A LOT FOR THAT, BUT YOU DO REALIZE THAT THAT’S NOT ENOUGH, RIGHT? PLEASE TELL ME YOU’RE AWARE THAT THIS ISN’T ‘TE’ EQUALY OR DIVERSY!”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WH NO GENUNE LEADG GAY CHARACTERS ON TELEVISN, AND ONLY A SMATTERG OF SUPPORTG GAY ON, ALSO MAK SENSE THAT WE GAY AND BISEXUAL VIEWERS MIGHT BEE MORE EMOTNALLY ATTACHED TO THE CHARACTERS THAN STRAIGHT VIEWERS DO, AND MIGHT EXPERIENCE THEM A MORE PERSONAL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND WHEN THE CHARACTERS DIE, OFTEN BTALLY, WE MIGHT EXPERIENCE THAT A MORE PERSONAL WAY TOO. IS CRAZY TO EXPECT WRERS AND PRODUCERS TO BE A LTLE SENSIVE TO THAT?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SOCIAL PROGRS PROBABLY ALWAYS SEEMS TOO SLOW TO THE MORY WHO IS EAGER FOR CHANGE, JT AS PROBABLY ALWAYS SEEMS TOO FAST FOR THE GREATER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT AS NICE AS IS TO SEE MORE GAY CHARACTERS ON TELEVISN, WOULD BE NICER STILL TO SEE MORE OF THEM {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
• ‘PUMPG’ IS DANGERO NEW FAD AMONG GAY MEN

HAFIZE GAYE ERKAN: DAS IST DIE FR, DIE SICH M ERDOğAN ANLEGT

In 1980, Maison was the top legal fenr of gay men arrted for "public lewdns" a police stg the prev year at Village Statn. Kantrowz was “an early champn of gay rights and an fatigable mpaigner for fairer treatment of gay people by the media, ” the Tim not.

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He helped found GLAAD, then known as the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, was a profsor the English partment at the Cy Universy of New York’s College of Staten Island om 1965 to 2006, and while there he created one of the first gay studi urs the natn. He promoted the work of Walt Whman and other gay 1977 he published a memoir, Unr the Rabow: Growg Up Gay,  which he chronicled the difficulti he and other gay people faced mid-century Ameri.

Much later, 2009, he was grand marshal of the Staten Island Gay Pri was a ntemporary and iend of many fellow activists, cludg Vo Rso, thor of The Celluloid Closet.

He appeared  Vo, a 2011 documentary about Rso, and several other documentari about the LGBTQ+ muny, cludg Gay Sex the ’70s and After Stonewall. He also was one of the first out gay guts on popular rad and TV talk shows, speakg to Geraldo Rivera, Sally Jsy Raphael, and more. ”“He was thoughtful, charmg, and like any good profsor (he was among the first to teach a urse gay lerature, 1973), a lifelong stunt and teacher, ” former Whe Hoe staffer Jeremy L.

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” which he lambasted “the tenncy among some gay activists to rpond to AIDS by downplayg their sexualy and emphasizg the need to replite bourgeois heterosexualy, ” the Tim reports. “Male homosexualy was not the mirror image of heterosexualy, he argued, but somethg radilly different, lackg many of the patriarchal equali that he said fed straight life, ” the paper explas. “Far om apologizg for their promiscuy as a failure to mata a lovg relatnship, gay men should ceaselsly lament the practil necsy, now, of such relatns, should rist beg drawn to mimickg the unrelentg warfare between men and women, ” Bersani wrote the his 1995 book Homos, he criqued queer theory, sayg that by seeg gay inty as socially nstcted and performative, proponents of this theory ignored and unrmed the liberatg quali of beg gay.

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“He thought that the whole pot of beg a homosexual man is that you dispted the experience of posssn, ownership, fily, nsistency, safety, and you allowed sexualy to be what really is, which is disptive, disorientg, shatterg, lim-vlatg and boundary-breakg, ” she said. She thored the books Irristible Revolutn: Conontg Race, Class and the Assumptns of LGBT Polics (2012), and Virtual Equaly: The Mastreamg of Lbian and Gay Liberatn (1996).

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Jefey Esffier, a longtime activist, thor of works on gay inty, and creator of public health mpaigns, died May at age e was plitns om a fall, his fay told the paper. He beme print of the Philalphia chapter of the Gay Activists Alliance, and 1972 he found The Gay Alternative, published by the anizatn.

He and his staff at Out/Look anized the OutWre nference for LGBTQ+ wrote numero says on gay inty and the factors that shape . They were llected volum cludg Amerin Homo: Communy and Perversy and Sex, Society, and the Makg of Pornography: The Pornographic Object of Knowledge. Returng to New York the 1990s, Esffier beme puty director of the Office of Gay and Lbian Health the cy’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene 1995.

Hunter Reynolds was a prized asset to the LGBTQ+ muny and for HIV activism, as the artist fought homophobia and the AIDS crisis head on durg the 1980s and ’90s. After llege, his first huge movement the public eye stemmed om a quote he read by artist Mark Kostabi, om an article  Vany Fair: “The mm curators, that are for the most part homosexual, have ntrolled the art world the ’80s. Riverfger Women has been named to The New York Tim’ list of 100 Greatt Gay Novels, while Beyond the Pale won the 1998 Lambda Lerary Award for Lbian Fictn.

WHY DO THE GAY CHARACTER ALWAYS HAVE TO DIE?{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}TVBY BRENT HARTGERMARCH 9, 2010/3:32 PMBY BRENT HARTGERMARCH 9, 2010 / 3:32 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"WHY DO THE GAY CHARACTER ALWAYS HAVE TO DIE?","DATEPUBLISHED":"2010-03-09T20:32:31.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2010-03-09T20:32:31.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"BRENT HARTGER","KEYWORDS":"THE BACKLOT","ARTICLESECTN":"TV"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}OKAY, SO THE HEADLE OF THIS ARTICLE IS A LTLE MISLEADG: GAY CHARACTERS ON TELEVISN DON’T ALWAYS DIE. PLENTY OF GAY AND BISEXUAL CHARACTERS HAVE LIVED LONG HAPPY LIV – AND MORE ARE LIVG THAT WAY ALL THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT LET’S FACE : SOMETIM SEEMS LIKE THE GAY CHARACTER ALWAYS DI. AND THEY ALMOST CERTALY DIE MORE THAN THEIR NUMBERS WOULD {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE ATHS OF THE TWO GAY CHARACTERS ON SPARTAC: BLOOD AND SAND ARE ONLY THE MOST RECENT, BUT THERE ARE PLENTY OF OTHER EXAMPL:{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DALE TOMASSON, BIG LOVE: SUICI (2010){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FELIX GAETA, BATTLTAR GALACTI: EXECUTED (2009){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}EDDIE, TE BLOOD: MURRED (2008) {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ALEX, IN TREATMENT: SUICI (2008) {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IANTO JON, TORCHWOOD: MURRED BY ALIENS (2009) {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}11-12, THE PRISONER: SUICI (2009) {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}909, THE PRISONER: MURRED (2009){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}JOSEPH, KGS: MURRED (2009) {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}OMAR LTLE, THE WIRE: MURRED (2008) {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}RAY FISKE, DAMAG: SUICI (2007) {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}STEVE, REAPER: SUALTY OF MON WAR (2008) {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}VO, THE SOPRANOS: MURRED (2006) {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SALIM, SLEEPER CELL (2006) {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CASSADY CASABLANS, VERONI MARS: SUICI (2006) {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND THE ARE JT THE AD REGULAR, OR AT LEAST FEATURED, TV CHARACTERS. GAY OR BISEXUAL MEN HAVE EQUENTLY POPPED UP AS “GUT” CHARACTERS ON SHOWS LIKE CSI, THE MENTALIST, GHOST WHISPERER, SUPERNATURAL, AND LAW & ORR – ONLY TO DIE, OFTEN BEFORE THE OPENG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}INED, ADDN TO THE AD GAYS ON SPARTAC AND BIG LOVE, THE LAST FEW WEEKS HAVE ALSO SEEN GAY VICTIMS ON LAW & ORR: SVU AND NCIS: LOS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHAT’S GOG ON HERE? DO HOLLYWOOD HAVE A GAY ATH WISH?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LET’S GET ONE THG STRAIGHT: A GAY OR BISEXUAL CHARACTER DYG IS NOT NECSARILY AN DITN OF HOMOPHOBIA OR BIAS. CHARACTERS DIE ON TELEVISN A LOT. IT’S LLED “DRAMA” FOR A REASON, AND THERE’S NO MORE CLASSIC A NOUEMENT FOR A CHARACTER’S STORY ARC, OR CG CINT FOR ANOTHER CHARACTER’S SUBSEQUENT EMOTNAL VELOPMENT, THAN THE ATH OF ANOTHER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SPARATAC: BLOOD AND SAND'S SPARTAC FDS PIETROS' HANGG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SURE ENOUGH, “CHARACTER VELOPMENT” IS UALLY HOW THE WRERS JTIFY THE ATHS: ’S HOW JOSS WHEDON JTIFIED THE ATH OF TARA ON BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER; ’S HOW RSELL T. DAVI FEND THE ATH OF IANTO ON TORCHWOOD; AND ’S HOW STEVEN DEKNIGHT MOST RECENTLY EXPLAED THE ATHS OF BAR AND PIETROS ON SPARTAC: BLOOD AND {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND MAYBE MAK SENSE CERTA WAYS THAT GAY CHARACTERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO DIE THAN STRAIGHT CHARACTERS. SHOWS LIKE COLD CASE AND GREY’S ANATOMY HAVE FEATURED EXTREMELY TOUCHG EPISOS WHERE GUT GAY CHARACTERS DIED, BUT THE EPISOS THEMSELV WERE DRAMATIZG THE BIAS THAT GAY AND BISEXUAL PEOPLE OFTEN STILL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}STILL, WHAT HOLLYWOOD WRERS NEVER MENTN, AND UALLY DON’T EVEN SEEM TO BE AWARE OF, IS THE FACT THAT THE (OFTEN BTAL) ATH OF A GAY CHARACTER IS A LONGSTANDG WRERS’ {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}NEXT PAGE! THE DEAD GAY GUY CLICHE! {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN 1989, FILM HISTORIAN VO RSO PUBLISHED A SEND EDN OF HIS NOW-LANDMARK BOOK THE CELLULOID CLOSET, ANALYZG THE WAY GAY AND BISEXUAL PEOPLE HAD BEEN STEREOTYPED SCE THE CEPTN OF CEMA, CLUDG THE EQUENCY WH WHICH GAY CHARACTERS ARE KILLED OFF, OFTEN SEEMGLY “PUNISHED” FOR VLATG SOCIAL NORMS. HE EVEN CLUD A “NECROLOGY” WH A LIST OF 39 ATHS MAJOR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}RSO END THE BOOK WH A NOW-FAMO RANT: “IT HAS BEE CLEAR…THAT WHAT WE NEED IS NO MORE FILMS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY … GAY VISIBILY HAS NEVER REALLY BEEN AN ISSUE THE MOVI. GAYS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN VISIBLE. IT’S HOW THEY HAVE BEEN VISIBLE THAT HAS REMAED OFFENSIVE FOR ALMOST A CENTURY.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ALBY FDS DALE'S HANGG BODY ON BIG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THGS HAVE CHANGED A LOT FOR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN SCE RSO’S BOOK WAS PUBLISHED, BOTH ON-SCREEN AND {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT HAVE THEY CHANGED PLETELY? OR HAS THE CLICHé OF THE DEAD GAY GUY SIMPLY MUTATED ONTO TELEVISN A MORE SOPHISTITED FORM?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THAT MIGHT BE PART OF , BUT A MORE SATISFYG EXPLANATN IS THAT GAY CHARACTERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO DIE SIMPLY BEE THEY’RE FAR MORE LIKELY TO BE SUPPORTG, NOT LEADG, {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}NOTICED A LOT OF AIN AMERIN POLICE CHIEFS, DOCTORS, AND JUDG ON TV OVER THE YEARS? LATELY, THERE’S ALSO THE CLICHé OF THE INDIAN AMERIN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IT’S NOT JT THAT WELL-MEANG PRODUCERS AND STG DIRECTORS OF TELEVISN SHOWS WANT TO REMD VIEWERS THAT THERE ARE, FACT, PLENTY OF MORY POLICE CHIEFS, JUDG, AND DOCTORS (PECIALLY URBAN AREAS, WHERE MANY OF THE SHOWS ARE SET).{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IT’S ALSO THE FACT THAT LEADG CHARACTERS ON TELEVISN ARE ALMOST ALL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SO RPONDG TO PRSURE OM VIEWERS AND MORY ACTIVISTS, WORKS AND PRODUCERS MAKE THEIR SHOWS MORE RACIALLY DIVERSE BY STG PERIPHERAL CHARACTERS LIKE DOCTORS, JUDG, AND POLICE CHIEFS WH MORY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HOLLYWOOD ULD ALSO MAKE THEIR SHOWS MORE DIVERSE BY WRG MORE MORY LEADG CHARACTERS, AND THERE ARE HTS THE NEW SLATE OF PILOTS NOW VELOPMENT THAT THEY MAY BE MAKG PROGRS TOWARD THAT. IN THE MEANTIME, THEY DO THE NEXT BT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN SHORT, THE STAT QUO IS THE TV CLICHé WHERE ALL THE LEADG CHARACTERS, THE ON WH THE PLITED, TERTG AND ONGOG STORYL, TEND TO BE WHE, WHILE MANY OF THE PERIPHERAL OR SUPPORTG CHARACTERS TEND TO BE RACIAL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}UNFORTUNATELY, THIS RERC ANOTHER STEREOTYPE WHICH WHE PEOPLE ARE POWERFUL AND ACTIVE, WHILE NON-WHE PEOPLE (EVEN ON POSNS OF “THORY”) ARE REACTIVE AND OFTEN EFFECTUAL (TO RERCE THE MA CHARACTER’S “NOBLE," POSIVE QUALI).{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FELIX GAETA AWAS EXECUTN ON BATTLTAR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE SAME THG IS TE FOR GAY CHARACTERS ON TELEVISN: THEY PLAY THE SUPPORTG ROL, NOT THE LEADG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN FACT, THE CURRENT NUMBER OF LEADG GAY CHARACTERS ON BROADST SCRIPTED AMERIN TELEVISN IS … ZERO. (CAMERON AND MCHELL ON MORN FAY, AND KEV ON BROTHERS & SISTERS MAY BE LEADG CHARACTERS, BUT ONLY ENSEMBLE STS.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ALL THE OTHER MOST WELL-KNOWN GAY CHARACTERS – KURT ON GLEE, MARC ON UGLY BETTY, CALV ON GREEK, AND SO ON, ALONG WH ALL THE CHARACTERS LISTED ABOVE – ARE SENDARY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LEADG CHARACTERS ALMOST NEVER DIE (UNLS THE ACTOR MANDS A RAISE!).{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SUPPORTG CHARACTERS, MEANWHILE, SOMETIM DO. AFTER ALL, DRAMATILLY SPEAKG, ’S THEIR JOB TO SUPPORT THE LEADG CHARACTER – TO BOLSTER HIS OR HER EMOTNAL JOURNEY WHICHEVER WAY IS THE MOST {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}NEXT PAGE! HOW E WE NEVER GET TO BE SPARTAC? {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ON A SHOW LIKE SPARTAC: BLOOD AND SAND WHERE THE TLE CHARACTER WILL OBVLY EVENTUALLY BEE THE OUTRAGED REBEL SLAVE OF HISTORY, MAK PERFECT SENSE THAT BAR AND PIETROS, ALONG WH MANY OTHER NOCENT PEOPLE, HAVE TO DIE, BTAL, TRAGIC WAYS. IT’S WHAT MOTIVAT SPARTAC TO BEE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ON CRIM SHOWS LIKE CSI AND SVU THAT ARE ABOUT CRIME AND MURR, ALSO MAK SENSE THAT ANY “GUT” GAY ROL WOULD BE MURR VICTIMS (OR MURRERS, ANOTHER POTENTIAL GAY CLICHE). THE SHOWS SERVE CRED FOR BEG AT LEAST SOMEWHAT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT TO ALL THOSE WRERS WHO JTIFY THE ATHS OF THEIR GAY CHARACTERS WH THE ARGUMENT THAT “’S ALL ABOUT CHARACTER AND STORY”: YOU YOURSELF ARE NOT SEEG THE WHOLE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SURE, THE PARTICULAR STORYLE OF ANY GIVEN SHOW, THE GAY GUY MIGHT HAVE TO DIE. BUT THAT SHOW EXISTS A LARGER CULTURAL NTEXT, ONE THAT CLUS THIS LONGSTANDG WRERS’ TROPE OF THE DEAD GAY GUY, AND ONE THAT CLUS ALMOST NO LEADG GAY CHARACTERS. INED, OF THE MANY VAR "CRIME" ANCHIS, ONLY A SGLE SHOW, LAW & ORR: SVU, HAS A REGULAR GAY CHARACTER – A MOR ONE WHO DIDN'T E OUT UNTIL EIGHT YEARS TO THE SHOW'S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE ARGUMENT IS OFTEN MA THAT, “IF GAY VIEWERS WANT GAY CHARACTERS TO BE TREATED EQUALLY ON TELEVISN, THEY HAVE TO ACCEPT THAT SOMETIM BAD THGS WILL HAPPEN TO THEM.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT THAT’S PRECISELY THE POT: AS LONG AS THERE ARE NO LEADG GAY CHARACTERS, GAY CHARACTERS AREN’T BEG TREATED EQUALLY. WE’RE GETTG ALL OF THE TRMA AND TRAGEDY OF THE GAY ATH (AND THE VRL DIRECTED AT THE GAY VILLA), BUT ALMOST NONE OF THE PLEASURE OF THE GAY LEADG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}RAY FISKE CIS TO END ALL ON DAMAG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND JT AS WH RACIAL MORI, ’S MAKG ALL GAY PEOPLE SEEM LS POWERFUL, MORE LIKELY TO BE A “VICTIM,” THAN STRAIGHT PEOPLE. 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THAT'S CHANGED SOMEWHAT – PART, BEE THE CLICHé WAS SO WILY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}EVERY SHOW ON TELEVISN WH A GAY CHARACTER PROBABLY SERV SOME MEASURE OF CRED (ASSUMG ’S NOT A BLATANT OR OFFENSIVE STEREOTYPE), BEE SUCH CHARACTERS ARE STILL NTROVERSIAL FOR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SO IS UNFAIR OR UNTERPRODUCTIVE FOR GAY VIEWERS TO ASK, LIKE OLIVER TWIST, MORE OF HOLLYWOOD?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IF SO, ’S ALSO UNTER-PRODUCTIVE FOR AIN AMERINS TO LOOK AT ALL THOSE MORY JUDG AND POLICE CHIEFS AND DOCTORS, AND SAY, “THANKS A LOT FOR THAT, BUT YOU DO REALIZE THAT THAT’S NOT ENOUGH, RIGHT? PLEASE TELL ME YOU’RE AWARE THAT THIS ISN’T ‘TE’ EQUALY OR DIVERSY!”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WH NO GENUNE LEADG GAY CHARACTERS ON TELEVISN, AND ONLY A SMATTERG OF SUPPORTG GAY ON, ALSO MAK SENSE THAT WE GAY AND BISEXUAL VIEWERS MIGHT BEE MORE EMOTNALLY ATTACHED TO THE CHARACTERS THAN STRAIGHT VIEWERS DO, AND MIGHT EXPERIENCE THEM A MORE PERSONAL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND WHEN THE CHARACTERS DIE, OFTEN BTALLY, WE MIGHT EXPERIENCE THAT A MORE PERSONAL WAY TOO. 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