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:
- WHEN GAY JOURNALISTS WERE CLOSETED: A HISTORY OF AIDS COVERAGE AT 'THE TIM'
- HIGHLIGHT THE ONGOG RELATNSHIP BETWEEN ABC'S GAY JOURNALIST DAVID MUIR & G BENEZ
- WHO'S GAY ON TV? DADS, JOURNALISTS, INVTIGATORS AND FOOTMEN
WHEN GAY JOURNALISTS WERE CLOSETED: A HISTORY OF AIDS COVERAGE AT 'THE TIM'
Highlight the ongog relatnship between ABC's gay journalist David Muir & G Benez. The uple was mored to be together but as per the sourc, G is already Married. Also, fd out about their personal and profsnal tails the very news. * gay journalists *
Frank BniColumnist, The New York Tim@FrankBniFormerly the chief rtrant cric for The New York Tim, Bni ma history 2011 by beg the Grey Lady's first out gay lumnist. The Emerson College assistant profsor is also a producer of the upg film Michael, based on his Tim Magaze piece about his "ex-gay" iend.
Kate FaganWrer, ESPN@KateFagan3ESPN ntributor and lumnist Kate Fagan wr about basketball (and genr and sexism and homophobia) om a place of knowledge and ep, personal appreciatn. Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer televisn newssters have a proment profile many untri around the world.
HIGHLIGHT THE ONGOG RELATNSHIP BETWEEN ABC'S GAY JOURNALIST DAVID MUIR & G BENEZ
Amerin Charl Perez of ABC News is one to particularly note - he published his book 'Confsns of a Gay News Anchorman' (2011) after his oral of beg fired om a posn Florida when he was intified as beg gay. For example, France, there is L'associatn s journalist LGBT, and Ameri there is the Natnal Lbian & Gay Journalists Associatn.
WHO'S GAY ON TV? DADS, JOURNALISTS, INVTIGATORS AND FOOTMEN
@AnrsonCooperCNN's Anrson Cooper beme the first out gay man ever to host a printial bate bee Amerins tst him. Roxane Gay — Author, and Contributg Op-ed Wrer, The New York Tim. @rgayA ntributg edor at Blutem Prs and the founr of Ty Hardre Prs, Gay is a renowned profsor and mentator and New York Tim ntributor wh several fictn and nonfictn books to her name.
@Locs_n_LghsGranrson is equally astute at polics and sports, and he's perhaps the most proment openly gay sports journalist the U. When Gay Journalists Were Closeted: A History of AIDS Coverage at 'The Tim'. Now an enthiastic proponent of gay marriage, The Tim was then a place where gay reporters feared beg exiled to obscure beats and watchg their reers wher.