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2022 IS THE YEAR TV FALLY GOT GAY
Even if weren't packed wh the most well-known queer people on TV, Visible: Out on Televisn do an excellent job of trackg how gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, and non-bary people have been picted on televisn om s earlit days -- cludg the antic, hyper-paranoid news reports of the 1950s clarg queer people a menacg threat. In this heartwarmg and often hilar drama, the trans women who started the ballroom scene -- the scene that's ma black/Latx gay lgo like "slay, " "read, " and "spill the tea" mastream -- get their due, makg them the subject of the story stead of the afterthoughts. And yet, for s, lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer people rarely ever saw displays of affectn.
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.