Culture GLAAD report warns 'alarming number' of LGBTQ TV shows and characters will disappear next year - Good riddance

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) released a new report Tuesday revealing that, due to an "alarming number of LGBTQ-fronted shows" ending, nearly 30% of LGBTQ characters will likely disappear.

GLAAD's 18th report on the status of LGBTQ representation on television found that a total of 596 LGBTQ characters were featured in scripted TV in the 2022-2023 season. This represented an approximate 6% drop from the previous year.

The report noted 175 of these characters, about 29%, won't be returning. Twenty-four percent of those characters were featured on shows that are either being canceled or finishing their final season, while the other 35 characters were in limited miniseries or anthologies with revolving casts.

The GLAAD report said it is "concerning" that many "series getting cut are LGBTQ-inclusive programs, leaving a large demographic of viewers constantly searching for new programs only for them to ultimately be canceled before a satisfying conclusion. In recent years, an alarming number of LGBTQ-fronted shows have ended."

"At a time when transgender Americans are facing a growing number of dangerous and discriminatory attacks in rhetoric and policy, Hollywood players who are real allies to our community have a responsibility and an opportunity to create stories that humanize trans people and educate viewers about being transgender," GLAAD President & CEO, Sarah Kate Ellis said in a statement.

She continued, "With attacks on the LGBTQ community in political and news spaces, Hollywood has more influence than ever and it's critical the stories they invest in telling include fair and accurate depictions of LGBTQ people that reflect the humanity of our community."

"It’s clear that when a service fully invests in its LGBTQ shows, this programming rises above a crowded media landscape and is successful with both critics and audiences," Ellis said in the report. "It is then disappointing to see this year that over 20 percent of LGBTQ characters counted here will not be returning in next year’s report due to series endings or cancellations."

The report also found that a majority of those characters, about 60%, were found on streaming services such as Netflix, HBO Max or Hulu versus broadcast or cable television.

Megan Townsend, GLAAD’s Senior Director of Entertainment Research & Analysis, also lamented that characters were "not evenly prioritized" across streaming services and television. However, she remained hopeful about the future for LGBTQ characters.

"t’s clear that well-crafted LGBTQ-inclusive series with full support behind them at all levels can break through a crowded landscape and become 'must-watch' successful shows for critics and audiences alike, such as ‘Yellowjackets,’ ‘Hacks’, ‘The Umbrella Academy,’ ‘The Last of Us,’ and more have proven. We hope to see more networks and streamers follow these examples by investing in and proactively marketing nuanced, diverse LGBTQ stories," Townsend said.

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[6 Years Ago]

At a time when transgender Americans are facing a growing number of dangerous and discriminatory attacks in rhetoric and policy,

You mean the part where they yell and scream a bunch of nonsense with the full backing of nearly every government and corporation and NGO on earth for years and people finally begin to tell them to shut the fuck up? Is that the attack they're talking about?

 

[Aero the Alcoholic Bat]

If they truly want representation, they'd cap it off at 3% or less, and be content with the handful of fags and troons in PG13 and R rated media that had already existed since the 80s or 90s.

I'm honestly amazed at those who still think lgbtq is anything more than 5% of the population, including in this thread. Which of course, gets me to my next point:

Gays and troons desperately want to believe that they're more than a tiny minority of the population. They desperately want homosexuality to be normalized, because they know that it's abnormal at best, and straight people (the majority of the population) are hardwired to find it as repulsive as the sight of maggots feasting on something dead and rotten. It irks them to no end that they've only gotten by on the grudging tolerance of others, especially those they've browbeaten into submission since the 90s.

Which is why Alfred Kinsey inflated the numbers of fags in the general population in the data he collected while surveying people.

It's also why fags in the mainstream media tries to sell faggotry and gender confusion as being hip and cool, especially towards kids. Gotta get them experimenting with their sexuality at earlier ages, gotta get them to experiment with LARPing as the opposite sex or as some alien hermaphrodite with a barbie doll crotch.

People aren't born gay, they grow up that way, the more opportunities they have to develop a disordered sexual attraction, a sexual addiction even, the better.

Wickedness never was happiness, and misery loves company. That's the only reason why faggots and troons whine so much about heteronormativity or cisnormativity. They get a bit....lonely....at times.

 

[Pointing_Pink_Yoshi]

LGBTQ is about to find out the all mighty dollar is what matters and not the cause.

 

[Troon Meet Noose]

I wonder how society will look back at those years in the future. I guess they will call it the era of fag.

They'll be called the gay (10's) teens and the tranny twenties. With how things are going downhill, we'll have the dirty pedo thirties next.

 

[el bandito loco]

the problem, for me personally isn't and never has been diversity characters in principle. It's that those characters are generally one note, useless, and their only defining traits are that they're fags, or minorities or both. I get the wish for representation, but wouldn't you rather have a well rounded character who happens to be a sexual or racial minority not one who happens to be a character in a show? Despite people pretending all we did was have faggot and nigger stereotypes in things, we used to also make balanced characters where that might be an aspect of them but not their entire shtick. the problem with the woke shit isn't that everyone is a dyke or a troon, it's that its very obviously disingenuous and just companies pandering to people who will accept anything thrown at them.

 

[ZazietheBeast]

A cause for celebration!

While we're at it, get rid of ESG, and all of this social justice shit forced from the top. Wokeshit deserves to die a dog's death.

 

[NOT Andy Kaufman]

I'm GLADD they are disappearing!

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

I've known normies who have stopped watching recent TV shows because the forced diversity takes over the story line

I quit watching more than a few series because SUDDENLY! DIVERSITY!

It's always shoe-horned in in the worst possible way.

 

[KiwiFuzz]

I quit watching more than a few series because SUDDENLY! DIVERSITY!

It's always shoe-horned in in the worst possible way.

If they made the Brady Bunch today, Cousin Oliver would be blacker than my momma's booty.

 

[Shroom King]

Correction: 46% of gay men admit to being molested as a child. An unknown percentage was molested but won't admit to it (or have blocked it out), and another unknown percentage was molested but doesn't consider a 40 year old gay man having sex with a 13 year old boy to be molestation because they were groomed into believing it was wholesome 100 chungus. Add these percentages up and I'd wager you'll come quite close to 100%. I'm willing to concede that perhaps 10% of gay men are gay for other, less traumatizing reasons.

Liberals: Akshually, that 46% figure is just Nazi propaganda, along with the 41% suicide rate of transgendered people. These people need to adopt children! It is their HUMAN RIGHT! There is no correlation between LBGT parents and mistreated kids, you dumb fat BIGOT.

Also liberals: What, the people down the street are homeschooling their kids!?!? Those poor kids, someone should call the cops on that house.

So glad liberals are getting cats, boxed wine and funko pops instead of breeding.

 

[White Trash Motorsport]

I note that the article says LGBTQ+, but the actual quote from GLAAD is just ‘Troons,troons,troons,troons!’
Gay orgs don’t give a shadow of a shit about gays any more, they’re just into weird ugly hetero men in lipstick.

 

[Table Country]

Oh no I'm so disheartened by this.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

Hell look at any of the gay characters in Norman Lear works, The Golden Girls, Designing Women, etc. Any of them are well written especially considering the eras they appeared in.

Any of that is preferable to the shit today.

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

Hell look at any of the gay characters in Norman Lear works, The Golden Girls, Designing Women, etc. Any of them are well written especially considering the eras they appeared in.

Any of that is preferable to the shit today.

Or Frasier for that matter. It never felt forced like this stuff does.

 

[Watcher]

While you might assume this is a good thing in reality it's because a lot of TV shows are failing and studios are cutting funding to stuff to stop the bleeding. Disney alone is cutting billions right now.

So what GLADD is reporting on is just what the other news outlets have also been reporting on, more TV shows are getting cancelled and most of those shows happened to have a gay person on them.

 

[CharlesBarkley]

While you might assume this is a good thing in reality it's because a lot of TV shows are failing and studios are cutting funding to stuff to stop the bleeding. Disney alone is cutting billions right now.

Gee, I can't imagine why with programming like this

"Yo, let's make this black sassy woman SLAAYYYYY QUEEEN while she masculates her homo-faggot dads. What? Why is no one entertained by this?"

 

[Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed]

People also had the balls to make gay characters not the best people to be around. People mention Omar Little because being gay didn’t change that he robbed drug dealers and influenced others to rob drug dealers. Baron Harkonnen was a murderer and a child molester. Aileen Wuornos was a real-life serial killer.

Now, gay characters are near-identical, or as these morons call it, “queer-coded”.

 

[Grand Wizard Wakka]

Not every TV show and movie being 50%+ gay? Basically Holocaust 2. Worst "genecide" in history.

Now, gay characters are near-identical, or as these morons call it, “queer-coded”.

Its amazing how being "not racist" is labeling people and enforcing stereotypes, and only "racist and sexists" think people can be anything regardless of race, sex, etc. Then again, this is the world where the worst thing you can say is "women dont have penises", much worse than things like murder, etc.

 

[TowinKarz]

People also had the balls to make gay characters not the best people to be around. People mention Omar Little because being gay didn’t change that he robbed drug dealers and influenced others to rob drug dealers. Baron Harkonnen was a murderer and a child molester. Aileen Wuornos was a real-life serial killer.

Now, gay characters are near-identical, or as these morons call it, “queer-coded”.

They threw a fit that the show about a real-life gay serial killer showed him killing people..... just like he did in real life....

These people don't want representation - they want us all to agree to live as if their preferred order of the world was the truth. And that means there shall be NO depictions of OUR group doing bad things, even as much as getting a parking ticket, something everyone does, because that portrays us in a negative light.

 

[Troutsmacked]

Yeah that shit isn't new or shocking or different now. Everyone has been so inundated with alphabet horseshit in recent years that it no longer draws morbidly curious audiences, and there aren't enough troons to financially sustain it. Now you actually have to write serviceable characters and plots that draw attention, or rehash old shit to cash in on nostalgia. "We have a gay/troon character!" means nothing anymore, if it ever did.