Longtime TV cric Dan Avery charts the history of gay, queer, and transgenr reprentatn popular Amerin seri om 1971 to today, om Ellen to Pose.
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14 TV SHOWS THAT BROKE GROUND WH GAY AND TRANSGENR CHARACTERS
* top 10 gay characters in tv shows *
To celebrate this tone queer visibily, we looked back over the past three s and round up the 30 most inic LGBTQ characters TV history, om loveable gay uple Mchell and Cameron to trans trailblazers like Sophia Burset. Even though Jack McFarland’s character has received a mixed receptn for perpetuatg gay stereotyp, he’s one of the longt nng and most inic queer characters on televisn, appearg ten seasons and 188 episos of Will & Grace to date. Mark Inlito has gone on rerd to say that he received a lot of fan mail for his portrayal, wh young gay kids ‘thankg’ him bee they’d never seen themselv reprented on televisn before.
Seth MacFarlane origally outled an episo which the fan-favoure character me out, but he scrapped , but later admted that Stewie is “almost certaly gay”. It has also, perhaps most importantly, been a platform to tell stori that have ma gay, lbian, bisexual, trans, queer, tersex, and more people feel ls alone the world – to know there is a big and varied muny to which they belong.
They did so by beg the first work superhero TV show wh an LGBTQ+ lead (actrs and character), as is the se of the CW’s Batwoman, or featurg some of the earlit recurrg gay characters on Amerin TV, like Vcent Schiavelli’s Peter Panama on the short-lived The Corner Bar, or Billy Crystal’s Jodie Dallas on Soap. In this sectn you’ll also fd the first Disney Channel show to feature a gay ma character (Andi Mack), the first animated show to feature a same-sex marriage proposal (Steven Universe), and Pose, which broke ground wh s diverse, largely transgenr st, and for beg the seri on which Ja Mock beme the first transgenr woman of lor to direct and wre an episo of televisn. The fay wel her warmly, but as Beverly (out of drag) and Archie’s son--law, Mike, walk to the subway, they are btally attacked by gay bashers, who beat Beverly to ath.