{"id":1297,"date":"2014-10-02T17:40:32","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T22:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2014-10-02T17:40:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T22:40:32","slug":"lgbt-tv-representation-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1297","title":{"rendered":"LGBT TV representation on the rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman (Thanks to Peter Coyl for the head&#8217;s up!)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Television got\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/tv\/2014\/10\/01\/glaad-report-find-rising-percentage-of-lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender-tv-characters\/16511915\/\">queerer t<\/a>his year\u00a0according to a new study by GLAAD. 3.9 percent of all series regulars on the five major networks are lesbian, gay, or bisexual. In 2014, there were no series regulars on a major network that were transgender (However, if the critical success of Amazon&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Transparent\u00a0<\/em>is any indication, this may change in the near future).<\/p>\n<p>ABC Family, HBO, and MTV received &#8220;Excellent&#8221; ratings for their portrayal of LGB characters in regular series roles.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the report,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/tv\/2014\/10\/01\/glaad-report-find-rising-percentage-of-lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender-tv-characters\/16511915\/\"> click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman (Thanks to Peter Coyl for the head&#8217;s up!) Television got\u00a0queerer this year\u00a0according to a new study by GLAAD. 3.9 percent of all series regulars on the five major networks are lesbian, gay, or bisexual. In 2014, there were no series regulars on a major network that were transgender (However, if the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-media-of-note"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}