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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[Yamma Damma]

I can't quote you @Megaton Punch but that other % of gays who weren't bad touched at childhood were abused by opposite sex partners in teenhood/adulthood. Two friends, both dudes,I knew had girlfriends that were so abusive that shortly after getting away from them (one of them got arrested but she had a record anyway) they started dating other dudes. They didn't wake up being gay, just thought the same sex can't be as bad as the opposite sex. Though to be honest one of them was effeminate anyway so it was a "better late then never" thing in his case.

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

They already know. You think all these Gay Flavors of the Week just so happened to be plastered everywhere because they wanted to and not forced to due to money and quota bullshit? Hell, the nu pride flag having that parasidic triangle for troons and blacks is proof they had to split hairs to "expand the kweer umbrella" for the sake of more money and attention. Otherwise they would've fucked off after gay marriage got legalized.

Every cause you can think of that got widespread attention all ponied up major bux to push their crap since holding up signs, signing petitions and being really loud and upset wasn't working. If it wasn't about the money, none of this would be happening.

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

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.

This is a good thing

 

[Fuck You Pay Me]

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.

They 're failing because folks don't want pedos, troons and faggots jammed down their throats.

 

[LGHDR+]

Literally thought they unironically said LGTV for a second

Don't rope my community into this! All we do is bitch about Applebee's hardware purchases.

@Tree

 

[Neighborhood Curmudgeon]

But seriously, this is good news! There has been more than enough meaningless "representation" in the media. How many times do we have to see "perfect" lesbian couples?

 

[LGHDR+]

How many times do we have to see "perfect" lesbian couples?

That is a huge gripe of mine. It's almost always two attractive, normal women (rarely a tomboyish one) and NEVER the very much more common fat dangerhair "kill all men" variety.

About how "perfect" are those real ones? Three words: Lesbian Bed Death. Wikipedia will have you believe it's fake, but Pride fucking Magazine itself acknowledges it entirely with an article I refuse to link to titled:

10 Stages of Lesbian Bed Death You Probably Recognize

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

That is a huge gripe of mine. It's almost always two attractive, normal women (rarely a tomboyish one) and NEVER the very much more common fat dangerhair "kill all men" variety.

About how "perfect" are those real ones? Three words: Lesbian Bed Death. Wikipedia will have you believe it's fake, but Pride fucking Magazine itself acknowledges it entirely with an article I refuse to link to titled:

10 Stages of Lesbian Bed Death You Probably Recognize

An interesting thing I know will NEVER be repeated was the lesbian couple in the TV show Friends.

It was obvious that Ross's wife's lesbian lover destroyed their relationship, even basically went "Nope, you get no say about your son", and was a turbo-bitch for most of the series. She was shown as petty and mean and proud of herself for destroying a marriage.

You'll never see that now.

 

[CuzinEd]

Who watches TV anymore? Oh yeah, Boomers. I doubt they even watch TV anymore. If they do they probably watch shit they can tolerate. watching TV is boomer shit. Like buying a Harley, writing in cursive getting married having a decent paying job and going to bars. Don't be a Boomer.

I literally feel sorry for people who aren't smart enough to find some way to entertain themselves that doesn't involve TV.

 

[MirrorNoir]

Report here.
Clearly they'd rather believe some sort of conspiracy theory than that programs which relentlessly browbeat and moralise people with faggotry aren't profitable entertainment.

Hollywood and the TV industry control and dictate culture and (at least until the economy started to speed up the slide into Great Depression 2.0) Hollywood and the TV industry had unlimited disposable financial resources to push LGBT shit even if it didn't make a dime or lost the company money, because of the idea that they could literally rewrite reality by forcing their dream world into reality via media and forcing the real world to change, by way of bullying and intimidation and gaslighting, to reflect the false world of TV and movies.

This sort of anti-life only is tolerated and allowed if the economy stays great and you have endless streams of corporate/government welfare propping up this shit. And the left in Hollywood, after basically screeching they wanted an economic collapse, a literal Great Depression 2.0 Gotterdammerung not seen since 1929 to punish those uppity poor people who voted Trump President, are now getting their Gotterdammerung and are realizing that by invoking Gotterdammerung, you can't just have it destroy those filthy proles. EVERYONE dies when Ragnorak happens, but especially the Elites. And them canceling their anti-life shit is them trying to salvage shit to stave off the apocalypse from claiming them even if it's for a couple of years.

Didn't Queer As Folk run for awhile?

Five seasons, which was on Showtime and was largely ignored by the mainstream when the initial shock of a gay dramady wore off.

And even then, QAF was super polarizing even among gay viewers. Some fans despised it for simply being a remake and bitched about why Showtime didn't just get the US TV rights to the British version (which eventually aired on Logo) and others pointed out how the characters, save for Hal Sparks character, were horrible unlikable assholes and the fact that the show celebrated hedonism and continued the idea that normal gays were dog scum and the equally bullshit arbitrary notions of what counts as "hot" among gay men (as seen by how the character of Ted was repeatedly bullied and written as a gay incel that no one wanted to fuck even though he was way more attractive than Brian, the character who was deemed to be the most attractive of the main cast in-universe). Or that the show shitted on characters who were wanting to just fit in and be normal gay people in society or the creepy as fuck lesbian couple where one of them clearly wanted to fuck Brian and be his wife and was only gay so she could glom onto him, trapping her wife with Brian as the mother of their child and having to put up with his asshole behavior 24-7.

An interesting thing I know will NEVER be repeated was the lesbian couple in the TV show Friends.

It was obvious that Ross's wife's lesbian lover destroyed their relationship, even basically went "Nope, you get no say about your son", and was a turbo-bitch for most of the series. She was shown as petty and mean and proud of herself for destroying a marriage.

You'll never see that now.

Actually you would but with the retcon the show half-assedly threw in middle of the run when they realized how badly they fucked up with the plotline and how they wanted to effectively severe that thread of Ross's life for the inevitable end of series hook-up, firmly established up front.

For those who haven't watched Friends

Spoiler

Midway through the show's run there is a flashback episode that shows how Ross met Phoebe and started hanging out with her and neglecting his wife in the process and the two inching closer and closer, over the course of the episode, towards them having an affair. In the end, they don't fuck but Ross takes a call before meeting with Phoebe one night where his wife talks about how, since Ross is spending all of his free time with his new "friend", she's wanting permission to hang out with a new "friend" she just met; IE her future lesbian lover. And out of guilt for neglecting her and Ross sort of realizing that maybe he made a mistake marrying a woman who he didn't love after all (given how much of a serious temptation Phoebe was to him), gives his wife permission to "hang out with her new friend"; which depending on how you view it, was Ross either unintentionally dooming his marriage or tacitly giving his wife permission to fuck a lesbian out of guilt for his own mental infidelity. Ross then meets up with Phoebe and they agree to be friends not lovers but Ross had already doomed his marriage.