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."

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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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