Neda Ulaby looks at the current landspe of gay characters on televisn, om the hight brows of Downton Abbey to the surprisgly welg world of realy shows.
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
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Meanwhile, gay TV pneer Ellen DeGener is a face of the multibilln-dollar smetic pany Cover Girl, and televisn overflows wh gay and lbian characters, om the pudgy bro Max on the ABC show Happy Endgs to the csadg lbian journalist on the ble h Amerin Horror Story.
NBC PHILLIP MENA B, AGE, MARRIED, GAY
"I was a ltle sad gay boy growg up Indiana, " he rells. "And my visns of what was gay were what I saw on TV. " Gay dienc clung to what they had — signifiers and stereotyp — says Dave Kohan, Mutchnick's non-gay llaborator.
THOMAS ROBERTS BE FIRST OPENLY GAY EVENG NEWS ANCHOR ON NETWORK TV
" 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.
WATCH: 'REPORTG TONIGHT: THOMAS ROBERTS,' FIRST OUT GAY MAN TO ANCHOR NETWORK NEWS
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. 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.
NBC ELECTN ANALYST STEVE KORNACKI IS OPENLY GAY AND A BIG SPORTS FAN
Sudnly, TV screens swelled wh gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr characters on realy shows, om Survivor to The Voice to RuPl's Drag Race.