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