Why Stop at 10%? Advocates Push for Even More LGBT Characters on TV
More than 1 in 10 prime-time scripted characters this season is lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. One group sees a need to double that.
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You could forgive Glaad, the media advocacy group for LGBT people, if it decided to do a victory lap this year.
Among scripted characters on prime-time TV shows this season, more than 10% were LGBT—and a majority of those were women or people of color. Estimates of the percentage of Americans who identify as LGBT vary from 4.5% of the population to as much as 12%, according to Glaad’s recent data, meaning that certain subsets of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans are now more common on screen than in real life.