Posted on 07 October 2012.
There are more GLBTI characters on primetime American TV than ever before, according to a new report.
The Where Are We On TV? report, released yesterday by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), shows that 4.4 per cent of regular TV characters for the 2012-13 season are GLBTI – up from 2.9 per cent in the 2011-12 season.
Glee was named the most GLBTI-inclusive show on broadcast TV and True Blood the most inclusive on cable.
GLAAD president Herndon Graddick says seeing GLBTI characters on TV can help young people to accept themselves.
“It is vital for networks to weave complex and diverse storylines of LGBT people in the different programs they air,” he says.
“When young GLBTI people see loving couples like Callie and Arizona on Grey’s Anatomy or Degrassi‘s confident transgender high school student Adam Torres, they find characters they can look up to and slowly start building the courage to live authentically.”
This is the seventeenth year that GLAAD has tracked the number of GLBTI characters on television.
Read the full report HERE.
Source:
http://www.gayexpress.co.nz/2012/10/record-number-of-glbti-characters-on-tv/