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14 TV SHOWS THAT BROKE GROUND WH GAY AND TRANSGENR CHARACTERS

Some of the bt TV shows wh gay upl clu Six Feet Unr, Morn Fay, and Orange Is the New Black. David and Patrick om Scht’s Creek, Will and Vce om Will & Grace, and Darry and Whe Josh om Crazy Ex-Girliend are a few of the bt gay upl on TV. Other shows wh gay upl on this list clu The New Normal and Degrassi: The Next Generatn.

Read about more on our TV gay upl list, featurg our favore LGBTQ+ TV upl. David and Keh's romance helps enpsulate what was like livg as a gay person the early 2000's, and shows how sometim posive change happens and Keh fight untls tim throughout the seri and break up, but always end up g back together. It was a major step visibily to see an terracial gay relatnship on televisn, and the two grow together and start their own fay throughout Six Feet Unr's five seasons on the air.

The seri revolved around a group of black gay men livg Los Angel, and promently featured issu facg that muny, cludg datg, same-sex parenthood, HIV and AIDS awarens, and homophobia. We watch as Wa out as a gay man, and fac the harsh reali that n sometim acpany that procs for black men. HBO's Lookg only aired for two seasons, but I found to be an pecially powerful, joyful, and realistic look to what 's like to be gay man morn society.

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I remember how excg was whenever a gay TV character A) existed, and B.

Blanche's gay brother Clayton was back town and gettg married to a hot, mtached p named Doug. Blanche, who had prevly alt wh Clayton's g out a few seasons prr, still had trouble wrappg her head around the whole gay thg.

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HOW GAY UPL TV MERCIALS BEME A MASTREAM PHENOMENON

While this uple is a favore, we do have to mentn that they did play to the trope of killg off gay/queer characters once they fd te happs. Capta Ray Holt is a proud gay Black man, and his partner Kev is his profsor hband.

See, gay upl n be borg too! 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.

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