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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Gay athlete Robbie Rogers brgs All Amerin to The CW and hopg to stir more nversatn through sports. * all american series gay character *
“In today’s world of divisn, I thought that was a really important story to tell — black/whe, rich/poor, gay/straight — that we’re all, on a cellular level, far more siar than we are different.
Durg the panel, Bre-Z explaed why she was drawn to the role: “I hate to see specific walks of life —pecially gay, lbian — portrayed so stereotypilly. 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.