The ABCs of Gay TV
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The second annual Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Network Responsibility Index just performed its first ever ranking of TV networks and their gay friendliness.
FX wax named the most responsible channel by GLAAD from the group of cable networks.
ABC was awarded first place again with the best ranking among broadcasters with 24% of its programing hours being considered "inclusive." ABC even portrayed the first gay marriage on television on its hit series Brothers & Sisters.
As for Fox, it was ranked the worst.
GLAAD's rating index "sought to gauge the quantity, quality and diversity of images of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people on television."
Coming in second place, with 21%, was the CW which was also found to be the most ethnically diverse broadcast network.
Of the reaming main five broadcast network stations, CBS was rated "adequate", while NBC was rated "failing" followed by Fox at the very end.
As for cable, FX came at the top followed by HBO which was classified as the most diverse station on cable.
And out of the remaining 10 most watched cable networks, Spike, TBS, A&E, USA, and TNT were all ranked "failing."
One trend they did spot was that most of the gays portrayed on TV were men. White men.
It's about time more stations start to diversify!
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hi mom.
I dont see why people have problems with gays!!!!! LETS ALL BE HAPPY AND PEACEFUL! congrats to all the stations that have gay couples!
big surprise
SO tell those fa66ots to suck some dick and stop telling the world about their genitals and what they do with them
HAHA he put up a Picture of Wentworth Miller… But no one really knows if he's gay or not.
Brothers & Sisters is not the first ABC show to have a gay wedding. Roseanne did it in the 90's.
IS HE REALLY GAY?
tv channels don't have to bend over to make gay people happy, get the fuck over yourselves
who cares how many gays are portrayed on tv, or on what channels, or what nationality they are. didn't know anyone was so trivial as to count.
REAL!
Who cares!!! Why waste the time and energy to do this. Seriously, are people not going to tune into a show if there is a not a fair represenation of gay people??
No HE IS NOTTTTTTTT!!! stop talkin trash…every good lookin boy is not gay!!!
Why should we be forced to have gay people in every television show? That's not diversity, that's forcing it down our throats!
hmmmmmmmmm… i wonder if there will be any homophobic posts in this entry???????????????
white not good enough….what is with this sexuality scorecard…give it a rest….no one is interested in other peoples sexuality…..it is boring…..shhhh makes the whole thing a lot more interesting.
I LOVE YOU PEREZ BUT IF WENTWORTH IS, I WILL DIE!
MY LIFE WILL BE OVER!
I don't see what this has to do with Wentworth? Perez, LEAVE HIM ALONE!
Don't forget that FX is a Fox channel. So they just choose to put their edgier stuff on FX and the tamer stuff on Fox. Big deal. But don't forget about the closeted Stewie on Family Guy!
i hate the ppl that leave 1 or two word comments just to b first. so dumb. the comments are like 'super' or. 'ayay'. like wtf.
haha no doubt fox is rated worst. i kinda saw that coming. what does fox do that is any good anyway??? lol
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You write a post about gays in Hollywood and you put up a picture of Wentworth Miller?
I know you want him to be gay and perhaps he is, but he's not out of the closet, so please leave him alone.
Stop outting people, Perez.
Leave him alone, he doesn't deserve that!!!!
Wentworth is absolutly NOT gay!!
WHAT ABOUT SHOWTIME???? I think that they do a much better job than HBO!!!
leave Wentworth alone.
perez…..y do u hate republicans so much??? im a gay republican and damn proud of it. fuck off… u have no grasp of reality…. gays r fine and don't shove ur Obama fucked up point of view up my ass!!!! HE SUX!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyone else wish straight people would stop shoving THEIR sexuality down OUR throats?
Wentworth Miller is NOT gay and never claimed he ever was.
brothers and sisters definitely not the first to have a gay wedding- FRIENDS had one in like 1996! get your facts straight perez!
Re: sarsf – I completely agree why the fuck should television try harder to please the gays?? Television seems fine the way it is and why would be want to make it worse by having a bunch of fags gaying up everything!
Friends also had a gay marriage in the 90's, Ross's ex-wife and her gf Susan
Re: loosi – Then dont vote for him you queer…….why dont you continue to get ass fucked while sucking mccains dick fag
What?? First gay marriage on T.V. on "Brother's and Sisters"- come on there's got to be more?? What about the lesbian wedding on Friends (Ross's ex)?? There was a wedding on the L-word right?? I remember Jack & Karen at a gay wedding on Will & Grace….hmmm not such a shocking idea!!
Hey Perez……Put up time….Iranian gay killer(president of iran) coming back to NY…..get photos of hanging gays, blow them up poster size…take to the streets and make a huge stink.. Lets see what you can really do about CHANGE////////
Re: loosi –
wow a gay republican… its hard to believe theres a gay out theres whose backing McCains anti gay adoption and marraige platforms… waitta go
there no self loathing there
Fox being rated worst is really not surprising.
"Friends" did a gay marriage in its first or second season so no it wan't the first gay marriage on TV.
They are the top 10 watched cable networks. They must be doing something right.
P.S. FX and Fox are owned by the same company.
Re: loosi – OH NO LOOSI!!!!!! You blew all the stereotypes. Now what are liberals going to do. Oh, I know…they can't handle it so they will start to attack you personally.
gay…gay…gay!!!!!!!!!!
I love how GLAAD tries to classify stations as "failing". Uh, maybe their just a normal fucking broadcasting network that isn't even trying to shine light on the gay effort. I swear, the whole gay community needs to get bitch slapped. They are all so fucking annoying.
What about BBC-America? Anyone watch "Torchwood"? Guy-on-guy, girl-on-girl, all races and colors (do aliens from The Rift count?) and good, old-fashioned hetero affairs. I know, I know - I just have the hunkaliciousness that is John Barrowman on the brain.
Why do you insist on calling Wentworth gay?? If he is gay and he wants to come out let him do it on his own, although I DO NOT think he is gay!!!
Re: loosi – : Wow - I am sure McCain is thrilled to have a vote coming from someone with such a fine grasp of the English language and its rules of spelling and grammar. With such intelligent voters as you out there, those with an opposing viewpoint surely stand no chance.
Just a little note: Brothers and Sisters is NOT the first TV show to, err, show a gay marriage. If I recall correctly Six Feet Under featured that in the series finale.
Maybe Perez meant that Brothers and Sisters was the first network, prime-time TV program to show a gay marriage ceremony between two main characters? Cable programming is not network programming and the other shows were a gay ceremony was depicted (i.e. Friends) involved tertiary characters.
Re: Oxymo – I think is insane to vote or not vote for someone because of one thing you disagree with. I disagree with many things from both of them, but we all have to choose which one has some of the same views we do.
WHY DO PEOPLE EVEN CARE ? LOGO is "the gay channel"- but did Gay folks REALLY need their own station?! I mean Equal is Equal. When you go asking for something "because you're different" you DON'T WANT TO BE EQUAL- Give it a rest! Then someone is always demanding celebs to out themselves. I don't care. Hollywood was a better place when celebs business stayed out of the media, that's why it's been reduced to a high-class ghetto baby-mama mecca, drugged-out, crunk-a-lunk, rehab drama camp, who's in who's out SLUMTOWN. Can a network broadcast a REAL show and drop this trash TV reality BS? One's sexuality and lifestyle preference are the LAST things to enter my mind when it comes to TV. I'm not gay- I JUST WANT TO WATCH TV!!!
FX and FOX are owned by the same company
YOU IDIOT PEREZ!!!!
Re: Lot – I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU. EVERYBODY doesn't WANT or NEED to know…and yet they remain ignorant
LOL- wouldn't that make for a perfect world if people would STFU and keep their business mum?!?!?
NOOOO they have to sing it from the rafters because if they didn't….we might not know they're gay at all. People are INSECURE about it- but the idea of GAY PRIDE forces them to tell the world-then when they end up crumpled over in an alley beat down- it's DISCRIMINATION! WTF asked them to wear it like a shield? Especially if it can't protect them from the people who HATE them for it. I'm taking the damn rainbow back too!
Who cares? I'm sick of watching men and women kissing each other. It makes me sick. I am totally pro gay marriage, etc., but for God's sake, I don't want to see any of their PDA's on tv.
Re: Marla – YOU ARE NOT THE REAL MARLA, hon. Find another name to use please cause this one's been with me for about 40 years. LOL Just joking!
Re: Marla – BTW- that's 2 Marlas who agree on Wentworth. That's what Perez always said about Vin Diesel…did he just become a father with his long-time girlfriend?
IDIOTS. Gays are only a FREAKING SMALL MINORITY, so maybe there is a reason why GAYS ARE A FREAKING SMALL MINORITY on television as well. Get over it. An overwhelming majority of people is straight. Don't you realize that when you bitch and bitch and bitch and bitch about your TV 'gay friendliness', you only harm yourself.
about wentworth miller =>why you not show a video on your friend talk about his relationship with wentworth miller?
your friend is afraid by wentworth miller ?
Why is you perez hilton who speaks and not your friend or luke.
then we show the reaction of wentworth miller
(sorry for me english i am french)
OH GOD HOW LAME….DOESNT' GLAAD HAVE BETTER THINGS TO DO THAN WATCH TV ALL DAY
Fox is #1 in my house.
Re: sarsf – You know this is a site created by a gay man….just saying
right?!
first gay wedding on tv? what about northern exposure way back in the early 90s? way before roseanne, will and grace and the others mentioned here.
It irritates me how everything has to be "diverse" now. I mean, if they pitched the idea of a show similar to 7th heaven nowadays, they'd be told that it was not possible to have a white couple with 7 white children. One of them would have to be an asian, so the show was "diverse".
I'm gay, but I don't feel the need for gay characters to be included in a perfect ratio. I mean, it's quite possible for there to be a family or group of people that are all straight, happens all the time, If there's a gay character on tv, cool, ’cause yeah, there are plenty of gay people out there, so it makes sense that there'd be one on tv sometimes, but if there was a tv show without a gay person, i'd be just as cool with that. People need to stop being so fucking stupid.
Hahah,tht's HILARIOUS, Gay Tv Rating hahahah
I few GLAAD with part awe, part revulsion.
They are such a deviously smart, organized propaganda machine. They exist to make sure that every last human being believes that homosexuality is normal, through constant visual saturation, and through the"quality of images".
If I ever become rich, I'm going to produce a movie that depicts a homosexual who is saved from it, and changes his lifestyle completely.
Guess what?
It's a true story.
Guess what else?
Despite that it's true, and despite the fact that, according to Hollywood and free speech, I have the right to tell any story I want, I would would be attacked by the gay community. Why? Because that story doesn't fit their agenda.
GLAAD is a well oiled machine. There, to push their message, and there to beat-down anyone with an opposing one.
Perez got so excited typing this story he made a Freudian slip….
Of the reaming main five broadcast network stations, CBS was rated "adequate", while NBC was rated "failing" followed by Fox at the very end.
"reaming?"
Take a cold shower there Pablo.
Reaming. ha ha.
There are some beautiful hunks in Hollywood who are gay. Gotta love 'em.
I WISH STRAIGHTS WOULD STOP TELLING 10-12% OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WHO R GAY WHAT 2 DO. I WISH THEY WOULD MIND THEIR OWN BUISNESS. I WISH U BREEDERD WERENT SO INSECURE AND IGNORANT. I WISH U GUYS HAD RESPECT 4 PEOPLE DIFFERENCES. BUT U DONT SO THEREFORE, I PERSONALLY AM GOING TO SHOVE IT IN ALL OF UR FACES UNTIL U DO.
I WISH STRAIGHTS WOULDNT FORCE THEIR SEXUALITY ON MUSIC VIDEOS, TV, MARRIAGE, WALKING HAND IN HAND WITH THEIR SPOUSE. I WISH STRAIGHTS WERENT SUCH HYPOCRITES ABOUT GAYS SHOVING THEIR SEXUALITY WHEN THE DO IT ALL THE TIME. I WISH STRAIGHTS COULD GET PAST THEIR BIGOTRY AND UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS COUNTRY: FREEDOM AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. I WISH STRAIGHTS WOULDNT BLOCK THAT FOR GAYS BUT THEY DO. I WISH STRAIGHTS PRACTICE WHAT THEY PREACH.
This is fantastic. However, the first gay marriage I ever saw on TV was when Keith and David got married on the 6 Feet Under finale, when they showed landmarks in the characters lives and their eventual deaths. I loved them as a couple
quit posting ppl are gay when they are not or have not come out yet!! keep dreaming if you think went is gay LOSERR
The first gay marriage on tv? Didn't "Friends" do a lesbian wedding YEARS ago?
YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO YOUR OWN WORDS P. DIVERSITY IN YOUR SITE WOULD BE NICE TOO!!!
THERE ARE SOME FIERCE HOT BLACK, LATIAN..ETC MEN AND WOMEN OUT THERE. BUT ALL YOU CARE TO REPORT OF (FOR THE MOST PART) IS WHITE PEOPLE…
SO HOW DO YOU SAY YOUR READY FOR DIVERSITY WHEN YOUR SITE ISN'T ALL THAT DIVERSE?
I believe 100% that TV channels should make an effort to be inclusive, but GLAAD is just making themselves into the Politcal Correctness Nazis by ranking networks that way. They make themselves look like the bad guys.
Why does every channel have to feature gay people? I was having a conversation with someone the other day about this. Not every person interacts with gay people on a daily or even monthly/yearly basis. I have absolutely nothing against gays but like duh of course the Spike channel is not going to feature gays it's a freaking network for guys.
F U Perez. Leave Wentworth alone. We know you wish he is gay but he isn't! Not like you would have a chance in hell if he was gay. But he's not so get over it. The thing that is the best is that he is classy enough to just ignore all the rumors rather that fight them. That says something right there that he is confident in his masculinity that he doesn't have to defend Gay rumors. I LOVE ME SOME WENTWORTH
Gays are just freaks that cannot get laid by woman. They have no rights, and they are sending the worst message on tv to our juveniles. I have kids and God knows I don't want them thinking that being gay is normal, because it is NOT! Keeping them off tv would do this world a lot of good, and stop fucking with the minds of others… especially kids.
Perez - Stop outing people. It is NO way for an elite gay like you to act. Be a role model for the kids, OK? Maybe Wentworth is gay. Maybe he's not. Either way, that's his business - not yours. I love your blog but when you pull childish antics like this it makes me embarassed for you.
Re: dede –
Being gay is perfectly normal. Plenty of people are gay. I'm gay, and it's not like I woke up one day and thought "Hey, I think I'll be gay now." I've always been gay, was born that way.
You probably just dislike gays because you're a trashy hooker whose legs spread faster than a west coast wildfire and you can't get business from them. Tell me, do they call your cunt "the tidepool" because of all the crabs?
Hm.. first gay marriage on television on ABC (Brothers and Sisters)?
I thought there was a gay marriage on Roseanne in the early nineties.
Nobody better be stealin' cred from Roseanne :p
Gays represent a minority of the US populace. Why does glaad or pnasty expect it to be on every show and every channel? That is not reasonable. If you don't like the quality of the shows, then don't buy from the advertisers! Quit bitching and try a route that makes sense! My guess is that won't work. Until everyone loves the gay agenda and it seeps into every aspect of our programs, try hitting them in the wallet. Guess what, it won't make a difference because most people are straight!! Therefore most programs are straight. This is simple, but you gay peeps can't grasp this? Stick to fashion and decorating on bravo and tlc.
About red thick ridiculous pedrillo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!You never will receive Wentworth!!!!!!!It does not want your friable body.Welcome to Siberia.I shall love you at a gangway of self-summer.Only accept a convenient pose.My sweet prankish!!!!!!!!Your back does not remain without attention to minute. Aving come back home, you should do three months Lotions on asshole.
P/S Forgive me for my bad English language.I not gomofob.But I against propagation of a paederasty.
Russian Siberian bear——About red thick ridiculous pedrillo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!You never will receive Wentworth!!!!!!!It does not want your friable body.Welcome to Siberia.I shall love you at a gangway of self-summer.Only accept a convenient pose.My sweet prankish!!!!!!!!Your back does not remain without attention to minute. Aving come back home, you should do three months Lotions on asshole.
P/S Forgive me for my bad English language.I not gomofob.But I against propagation of a paederasty.
Pierce Cruise presents Reality Bedroom.
whys there a pic of Wenty Miller ?
hes not gay
oh I hope you get your fat ass sued for this pussezzz!!! We know your gay, but that doesnt mean every other man is! get a grip will ya.
I doubt Wentworth is reading this but I hope someone brings it to his attention and you finally get a ass kicking!
Yep Wentworth Miller is gay
He's still dating luke macfarlene??
Obviously Wentworth Miller is gay, he was most recently dating Luke Macfarlane.
They are a very hot couple
is there any proof of wentworth beeing homosexual?
I don`t see, why is is not comming out if he is!
Re: garga – he's afraid for his career
Re: me –
so he is a coward?
he is sold in european magazines as straight- that would make him a liar-
that is very sad!
Sheez you gays are totally effing obsessed about your sexuality and promoting it.Who cares it is so NO important which sex you sleep with.Do get over yourselves. None of my gay friends are like you at all ,or like Kylie Minogue damn moronic gay fans, either.Enough already of your complexes and shouting from rooftops.It is really your private biz.
Perez, what you refuse to understand is that "Gay" is not a lifestyle, only one of the many forms of sexual deviance (others being necrophilia, zoophilia, pedophilia). The argument that homosexuality is a lifestyle is just a euphemism, using other words to make the less savory more tasty. The predominant mode of sexual expression for homo sapiens is heterosexual copulation within our own species; anything else is deviant in that it varies from the norm. Using a pretty buzz word does not make homosexual sex any thing other than it is, a from of deviant sexual intercourse. Think of the deviant who first pumped you when you were a child. Would you tell me that I must accept him and his mores into my household of young men?
That's why I watch Fox.
Re: susan –
SO HOW ABOUT PEOPLE WITH BLUE EYES, WULD U CONSIDER THEM DEVIANT DUE TO THE FACT THEIR R MORE PEOPLE WITH DARK EYES. HOW ABOUT STERILE PEOPLE WHO CANT HAVE KIDS. ACCORDING 2 UR LOGIC, THEY WOULD ALSO HAVE 2 B CONSIDERED DEVIANT. THE MOST SPOKEN LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD IS MANDARIN CHINESE, SO I GUESS ALL US ENGLISH SPEAKERS R DEVIANTS AS WELL, RIGHT?
THE THING I DONT UNDERSTAND IS, THAT U STRAIGHTS R ALWAYS TELLIN GAYS 2 NOT PROMOTE(which is absolutely bullshit) OUR SEXUALITY, BUT U GUYS DO IT ON AN EVERY DAY BASIS, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY. THE THING I HAVE LEARNED ABOUT GAY RIGHTS 4 STRAIGHTS IS, MOST OF U GUYS R COMPLETE HYPOCRITES.
Re: susan –
OH, AND U DUMB BITCH GAY=SEXUAL ORIENTATION. CONSENTUAL, DOSENT HARM SOCIETY, IS A MAJOR PART OF NATURE. BESTAILITY, RAPE ALL OTHER FORMS OF SEXUALITY ARE NOT CONSEUAL AND R HARMFUL TO NATURE AND SOCIETY. IF U CANT C DA DIFFERENCE THEN THERE IS NO HOPE 4 U.
Wentworth Miller- Yummy Yummy Screw- I'd eat your butt anytime!
Re: Lot – Of course, you would like it so much better if we shoved our dic&s down your throat wouldn't you?