(NBC News) – For the fourth consecutive year, broadcast television has featured a record percentage of LGBTQ characters, according to a report released Thursday by the media advocacy group GLAAD. Last year, GLAAD called on the broadcast networks to have 10 percent of its regular characters on prime-time scripted series identify as LGBTQ by 2020.
According to its 2019-20 “Where We Are on TV” report, the networks more than exceeded that goal. Of the 879 regular characters scheduled to appear this season, 90, or 10.2 percent, are LGBTQ. This is the highest percentage GLAAD has found in the 15 years it has kept such a count. “We made a specific call, and to see the networks surpass it is really noteworthy,” Megan Townsend, GLAAD’s director of entertainment research and analysis, told NBC News.
“It’s especially exciting to see the number of trans men on TV more than double this year, which last year’s report really pushed television networks to do, and to see that for the first time, LGBTQ women outnumber LGBTQ men on broadcast.” Among the other significant findings is a marked increase in the racial diversity of LGBTQ characters on the broadcast. For the second year in a row, LGBTQ people of color outnumber white LGBTQ characters, with 52 percent of queer regular characters being of color on broadcast series. There are also nine characters with HIV/AIDS on broadcast television, an increase from the seven characters counted last year. READ MORE
This is why parents need to be aware of what programs their children watch, however, I am not saying that these programs should be avoided but instead watched together with the children and then share their thoughts about the programs. The children are faced daily in the public school system with the gay agenda which is treated as just another lifestyle which is chosen by some people. However, we are seeing more and more that the lifestyle is not just presented, but instead is treated as something the children should be engaged in. Recently in Texas, the gay agenda of sodomy was being taught to children even though many parents objected. America is becoming more receptive to the gay lifestyle than any time in the previous history and is being force-fed on children and all areas of the society.