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14 TV SHOWS THAT BROKE GROUND WH GAY AND TRANSGENR CHARACTERS
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. Disney Channel seri Andi Mack ma history last year when featured s first ever openly gay character on the work. After the episo aired, the show was renewed for one more season but was subsequently ncelled for beg “too gay”.
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. He was the first gay man to kiss another man on work TV, and was one of the only ma gay characters on our screens the 90s. 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”. He’s unniably one of the most popular gay characters TV history, and showed dienc that gay people uld be multi-faceted. Tara’s ath the show’s sixth cycle led to wispread backlash among fans, who acced creator Joss Whedon of beg homophobic (so stupid).
10 MILTONE MOMENTS GAY TV HISTORY
16, 2017Last year was a remarkable time when me to the reprentatn of gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr or queer regular characters on televisn, acrdg to the latt Glaad report monorg diversy on the small screen. People, or beg able to help people unrstand who we are, pecially those tim when so many people lived hidn and visible, ” said Sarah Kate Ellis, the print and chief executive of Glaad (formerly known as the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn).
1972 — ‘THAT CERTAIN SUMMER’ A divorced father (Hal Holbrook) his his lover (Mart Sheen) om his teenage son Lamont Johnson’s movie for ABC, nsired the first sympathetic pictn of gay people on televisn. ”)1977 — ‘SOAP’ In this ABC s, Billy Crystal plays Jodie Dallas — a gay man havg an affair wh a famo quarterback and ntemplatg genr-reassignment surgery — who be one of the first gay dads on televisn. ]1985 — ‘AN EARLY FROST’ A Chigo lawyer (Aidan Qun) returns home to reveal to his parents that he’s gay and has AIDS this NBC movie by John Erman, settg the stage for feature films like Jonathan Demme’s “Philalphia.
1994 — ‘MY SO-CALLED LIFE’ In the episo “Life of Brian, ” this ABC drama about high school angst als wh young gay love when Rickie (Wilson Cz) velops a csh on his new classmate, Corey (Adam Bik). 1998 — ‘WILL & GRACE’ Two gay men pl two straight women equals 83 Emmy nomatns and 16 ws for the show that Vice Print Joseph R. ”2000 — ‘QUEER AS FOLK’ Showtime breaks new ground wh the first hourlong drama the Uned Stat about gay men and women, cludg a character who is H.