From the crushing success of American programming like Modern Family and Glee, to the 'cross-the-pond soapy melodrama of Downton Abbey, NPR's Neda Ulaby identifies a sort of representational renaissance in queer imaging. Gay dads, teens and villains are occupying a larger chunk of our visual landscape but, while the cultural distance travelled since the "shyness" of Tony Randall in Love, Sidney is staggering, Ulaby interrogates the gaps:
"Equality is not exactly television's strength when it comes to LGBT representation. Last fall, Gallup released findings about its largest poll ever about gay Americans. Slightly more women identified as gay than men, and more African-Americans, Asians and Latinos said they were LGBT than whites. So where's that on TV?"
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