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” To this day, the actrs regularly appears at gay pri events, like Sydney’s Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras.

Grillo-Marxuach said recently there would be "no reason" for him to do the show if he were unable to explore Xena's sexualy—somethg the origal '90s seri shied away 2016, we are ed to seeg reprentatns of the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) muny films and on televisn.

But that wasn't the se the 1990s when Xena and Gabrielle first burst onto the scene wh their subtextual the show lnched September 1995, there were no other proment gay characters leadg primetime shows on Amerin TV.

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"When Xena: Warrr Prcs began airg 1995, gay rights laws were begng to advance across several stat.

But the agmented televisn landspe between work programs, ble shows and streamg service origals suggts there's still a long way to the latt Where We Are on TV report, GLAAD's annual look at reprentatn of LGBT people on televisn, data found that of the 881 seri regulars—that's top-billed st who (ually) appear every episo—on work programmg the 2015-16 TV season, jt 35 are expected to be intified as gay, lbian or bisexual. "That iendship between Xena and Gabrielle transmted some msage of self-worth, servedns, and honor to people who felt very margalized, so had a lot of ronance the gay muny.

But you know what would have even more ronance for the gay muny? An actual gay relatnship. Gay relatnships were extremely ntroversial the '90s and '00s TV landspe.

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Thgs only got gayer om there. On the negative si, the queerdg of Xena and Gabrielle has bee the standard for entertament pani that want gay dienc whout the risk of offendg homophob.

People on TV n jt be gay, 's okay!