GLAAD reports a record-shattering year for LGBTQ people on TV

Between the transgender military ban and an HHS memo seeking to define “transgender out of existence,” it’s been a painful, difficult year for the LGBTQ community.

There are nonetheless brighter signs — and in a medium everyone loves to hate — television.

A new GLAAD report analyzing LGBTQ representation in television finds a “record high percentage of LGBTQ characters on broadcast TV” in 2018. Before Trump was elected, this is what we used to call “good news.”

GLAAD measures LGBTQ representation across broadcast, streaming, and cable television. According to the report, a record high 8.8 percent of all regularly occurring characters on broadcast television in 2018 are LGBTQ series regulars. In 2017, that number stood at 6.4 percent, then a record high.  Read more…

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