That Gay Thread

[Rev. Rye]

And just to try and answer Huggy's question about whether there's more black LGBTQ representation than straight black representation, I looked at GLAAD's 2020/21 Where We Are Now study, and while they provided numbers of LGBTQ characters on Broadcast TV, Cable, and Streaming (sorted by race), they only provided a number of total black characters for Broadcast TV.

This year, there are 773 series regular characters counted on primetime scripted series on broadcast. Of those, 22 percent (171) of the regular characters are Black. Although this is the third year in a row this percentage has held steady - tying for a record high percentage of Black series regulars on broadcast - this is a decrease of 25 characters.

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Of the 101 LGBTQ characters counted on the five broadcast networks, 23 percent (23) are Black characters.

23/171=13.5% of black characters on Broadcast TV are LGBTQ. Given that, if the stats I have for the real world are correct, 5.6% of adults identify as LGBT, this might be a bit high, but it's still a far cry from LGBT black representation outnumbering straight black representation.