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Contents:

• 14 TV SHOWS THAT BROKE GROUND WH GAY AND TRANSGENR CHARACTERS
• THAT GAY EPISO: AN OUT AND PROUD ‘WGS’ PLAYS ONE-ON-ONE WH BAD PARENTG
• YOU SAY GAY SON I SAY GODSON
• NUMBER ONE GAY SON

14 TV SHOWS THAT BROKE GROUND WH GAY AND TRANSGENR CHARACTERS

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). 2009 — ‘MODERN FAMILY’ This ABC s — featurg a gay uple, Mchell (Jse Tyler Fergon) and Cameron (Eric Stontreet), and their adopted dghter, Lily (Aubrey Anrson-Emmons), as part of a larger fay — “is geni the way tegrat edy and cln, and is able to te and open people’s hearts and mds, ” Ms.

THAT GAY EPISO: AN OUT AND PROUD ‘WGS’ PLAYS ONE-ON-ONE WH BAD PARENTG

Why we like : Vampir have long been a metaphor for queerns, and Anne Rice’s Interview wh the Vampire — both her 1976 novel and the 1994 film adaptatn — were also so obvly gay. The seri follows Louis Pote du Lac (Jab Anrson, Grey Worm om Game of Thron) as he reunts the wild tal of his life as a wealthy gay Black vampire 1900s New Orleans and the lover pann of Ltat (Sam Reid).

What mak this new eratn of Interview so pellg, though (apart om beg super gay, of urse), is how updat Rice’s origal material to offer sharp social mentary on race, class, and sexualy. Our Flag Means Death is a ba-and-swch masterpiece that lur the dience wh the hilary of Wai's anachronistic wrg set agast the Goln Age of Piracy and traps 'em wh the reveal that OFMD is a gay romantic edy. Not only is this seri one of the most all-around lightful viewg experienc morn memory, but also offers a movg and nuanced look at LGBTQ love that actually lets a gay uple serve as the ma romantic storyle.

YOU SAY GAY SON I SAY GODSON

What is: An animated seri about an optimistic young girl bravg the dangers of a post-apolyptic Earth overn wh mutated we love : It's not often that you hear a character say "I'm gay" an animated show aimed at younger dienc, but that's exactly what happens Kipo and the Age of Wonrbeasts. A first for Bridgerton, Queen Charlotte featur the gay relatnship between two si characters, Reynolds (Freddie Dennis) and the one and only Brimsley (Sam Clemmett).

The Goln Girls, Ellen, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and now Wgs, are all episos om gay wrers that give their gay characters digny and posn them on the moral high ground pared to whoever the ma st is eakg out. Roy starts out the episo hella pumped bee his son is the papers for his burgeong football prows (which is the gayt way I n thk of puttg , bee my specialty is ss and not sports talk). And his g out: he says that while he hasn’t “found anybody to be gay wh, ” he knows he’s had the feelgs for a long time and he’s done a lot of readg about at the library (also an entire week’s worth of Donahue helped).

The lively and elrly Fay (Rebec Schull) don’t get what gay means, the rakish Brian (Steven Weber) only ems the rmatn worthwhile bee he knows will vastate Roy, straight-laced Joe gets a ltle flummoxed, and Lowell (Thomas Han Church) approach R. The story follows two lennial siblgs: Cary, a gay aspirg actor, and Brooke, a former profsnal dancer, who are tryg to fd meang their own liv after their 13-year-old brother, Chase, be an overnight sgg sensatn.

NUMBER ONE GAY SON

It may appear quat now, when we have TV seri like Hulu’s Love, Victor (about a Latx teen explorg sexual fluidy) or Netflix’s Bondg (about sex work and alternative sexualy), but the great gay panic set off by Ellen DeGener g out on her s 1997 was a bombshell that didn’t necsarily nvce the works that they’d open the gat to LGBTQ experienc. Luckily Will & Grace buted 1998 and the groundbreakg NBC seri nvced many that gay people might not be so toxic (and wouldn’t sre off advertisers) — so much so that Vice Print Joe Bin later creded wh changg his md about same-sex marriage. Dpe the fact that lns of Amerins wnsed two men raise a happy and healthy dghter om the fort of their livg room sofas, took a fan mpaign to lobby Disney-owned ABC to fally allow Mchell (gay actor Jse Tyler Fergon) and Cameron (straight actor Eric Stontreet) to kiss ( fally happened 2010).

For years, ranged, perverse, and spible homosexuals were on full display — pecially om Ryan Murphy, who remas our most proment culture czar when to queer characters on TV.

From the Roy Cohn-flected Army-McCarthy heargs — which was the first time many people heard the word “homosexual” uttered on TV — through the “don’t ask, don’t tell” Neti, that clud The Goln Girls and Digng Women, to our current glter-and-glam era of RuPl’s Drag Race and almost-anythg-go pansexualy. When her straight male roommate’s twentysomethg girliend, Francis, qutns why Leila is so terrified to tell anyone that she has sex wh both men and women, Leila tells her ’s plited bee ’s “a gay thg.