Neda Ulaby looks at the current landspe of gay characters on televisn, om the hight brows of Downton Abbey to the surprisgly welg world of realy shows.
Contents:
- JENNA WOLFE, TODAY SHOW ANCHOR, COM OUT AS GAY, ANNOUNC SHE’S EXPECTG A BABY GIRL WH GIRLIEND STEPHANIE GOSK
- WHO'S GAY ON TV? DADS, JOURNALISTS, INVTIGATORS AND FOOTMEN
JENNA WOLFE, TODAY SHOW ANCHOR, COM OUT AS GAY, ANNOUNC SHE’S EXPECTG A BABY GIRL WH GIRLIEND STEPHANIE GOSK
Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer televisn newssters have a proment profile many untri around the world. Amerin Charl Perez of ABC News is one to particularly note - he published his book 'Confsns of a Gay News Anchorman' (2011) after his oral of beg fired om a posn Florida when he was intified as beg gay.
For example, France, there is L'associatn s journalist LGBT, and Ameri there is the Natnal Lbian & Gay Journalists Associatn. Frank BniColumnist, The New York Tim@FrankBniFormerly the chief rtrant cric for The New York Tim, Bni ma history 2011 by beg the Grey Lady's first out gay lumnist. The Emerson College assistant profsor is also a producer of the upg film Michael, based on his Tim Magaze piece about his "ex-gay" iend.
WHO'S GAY ON TV? DADS, JOURNALISTS, INVTIGATORS AND FOOTMEN
Kate FaganWrer, ESPN@KateFagan3ESPN ntributor and lumnist Kate Fagan wr about basketball (and genr and sexism and homophobia) om a place of knowledge and ep, personal appreciatn. Durg a movg speech at the 2006 nventn for the Natnal Lbian and Gay Journalists Associatn, CNN news anchor Thomas Roberts me out as gay. “It’s not always easy beg gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr.
In 2017 he spoke to all five livg Brish Prime Misters a feature that celebrated 50 years sce the crimalisatn of homosexualy. The first black and first openly gay edor--chief of Vogue, Edward Ennful OBE, was the keynote speaker at the Pri London gala dner last year, where he spoke of how a new generatn was “openg our ey to who and how we n love”. Lycett first me out as gay, then as bisexual and now intifi as pansexual.
Prenter of BBC Rad 1’s Drivetime show, Nick Grimshaw me out as gay 2012, and is an ambassador for The Albert Kennedy Tst, a chary that works wh homels LGBT youth. Calman is gay and married to lawyer Lee Cormack. I knew I was gay.