Thomas Roberts - first openly gay major TV news anchor |

Contents:

• JENNA WOLFE, TODAY SHOW ANCHOR, COM OUT AS GAY, ANNOUNC SHE’S EXPECTG A BABY GIRL WH GIRLIEND STEPHANIE GOSK
• WHO'S GAY ON TV? DADS, JOURNALISTS, INVTIGATORS AND FOOTMEN
• MSNBC HIR ANOTHER GAY ANCHOR (WHO JT CAME OUT 2 YEARS AGO)
• GAYLG NBC REPORTERS
• THOMAS ROBERTS HOSTS ‘NBC NIGHTLY NEWS’ AS FIRST OPENLY GAY NETWORK ANCHOR: TWTER REACTS
• NBC PHILLIP MENA B, AGE, MARRIED, GAY
• THOMAS ROBERTS BE FIRST OPENLY GAY EVENG NEWS ANCHOR ON NETWORK TV
• WATCH: 'REPORTG TONIGHT: THOMAS ROBERTS,' FIRST OUT GAY MAN TO ANCHOR NETWORK NEWS
• NBC ELECTN ANALYST STEVE KORNACKI IS OPENLY GAY AND A BIG SPORTS FAN

JENNA WOLFE, TODAY SHOW ANCHOR, COM OUT AS GAY, ANNOUNC SHE’S EXPECTG A BABY GIRL WH GIRLIEND STEPHANIE GOSK

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WHO'S GAY ON TV? DADS, JOURNALISTS, INVTIGATORS AND FOOTMEN

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MSNBC HIR ANOTHER GAY ANCHOR (WHO JT CAME OUT 2 YEARS AGO)

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GAYLG NBC REPORTERS

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THOMAS ROBERTS HOSTS ‘NBC NIGHTLY NEWS’ AS FIRST OPENLY GAY NETWORK ANCHOR: TWTER REACTS

" he says, referrg to an early 1980s s starrg Tony Randall as a wealthy gay man livg wh a ltle girl and her mom. "He wasn't gay, he was shy, " Kohan wryly observed. Today, there's no ntroversy at all when Glee, arguably the gayt show on work televisn, mols what 's like to be a gay kid or how to parent one.

NBC PHILLIP MENA B, AGE, MARRIED, GAY

If anythg, Murphy says, Glee has had to al wh a kd of oppose ntroversy — fans plag vociferoly about gay characters not beg affectnate enough wh each other. Last fall, Gallup released fdgs about s largt poll ever about gay Amerins. Slightly more women intified as gay than men, and more Ain-Amerins, Asians and Latos said they were LGBT than wh.

Sudnly, TV screens swelled wh gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr characters on realy shows, om Survivor to The Voice to RuPl's Drag Race. Right now, gay reprentatns on TV are seemgly boundls.

There's even an entire gay ble channel, Logo. And gay and straight dienc are relishg gay TV villas that not too long ago might have been emed offensive ritur. Take Thomas, the evil gay footman on Downtown Abbey.

THOMAS ROBERTS BE FIRST OPENLY GAY EVENG NEWS ANCHOR ON NETWORK TV

That character once might have been seen as a homophobic stereotype. Now, he jt blends to an ever-expandg universe — one that's fact even bigger than the actual number of gay people the populatn.

WATCH: 'REPORTG TONIGHT: THOMAS ROBERTS,' FIRST OUT GAY MAN TO ANCHOR NETWORK NEWS

A study by the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn shows 4.

4 percent of characters on TV are gay. Gallup measur the actual percentage of gay Amerins as 3. Wh the announcement this week that liberal journalist Steve Kornacki of Salon will take over weekend roundtable show, Up, MSNBC is addg s third openly gay anchor to the lp.

Maddow, who is gay, often lled upon Kornacki as a Roberts, who was recently married to Patrick Abner New York, also hosts his own midday show on the channel and was before that anchor for The Advote's onle newsst, which is no longer productn. It's 2011, after all, and I live Manhattan, surround social and profsnal settgs by gay people.

NBC ELECTN ANALYST STEVE KORNACKI IS OPENLY GAY AND A BIG SPORTS FAN

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