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Anonymous wrote:My husband (straight) was assigned a gay roommate for freshman year at university. It wasn't a problem, they got along. And the roommate never hit on him or tried to make him feel uncomfortable. He and the roommate are actually still on good terms, although not close we all still see each other sometimes as he also ended up living in the DC area. That said, the roommate was (and still is) a fairly quiet, easygoing guy and never talked much about his sexuality or his dating life or anything like that. If your son talks about sexuality very often that might be more likely to make a straight roommate feel uncomfortable.
I hate this so much. Straight people don't shut up about their sexuality. They don't shut about who they're dating. Gay people? It might make the straights uncomfortable.
Straight people have literally no clue how much their sexuality dominates every facet of their lives. I’ve been out for 25 years and I still get excited when I see any ad with 2 men because it is so rare, even now. Throw having kids into the mix. Do you know how rarely I see families that look like mine represented anywhere?
I definitely get it. To make matters worse, when there is representation, the straight people say things like, "every XYZ (show/movie/commercial/song/whatever) is gay now". They're just noticing it because there is representation now. But that representation doesn't rise to the level they believe it does. Almost everyone is still straight in all the media we consume and when queer characters do exist in media like TV, they're still often just used as a plot device (by killing them) to push the straight character's plot.
But LGBT IS overrepresented on television. So they are wrong that "everything " is gay, but they are right that LGBT is overrepresented.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people make up an estimated 4.5 percent of the U.S. population, and, according to Nielsen's inaugural report, they were 6.7 percent of the top 10 recurring cast members in the top 300 programs on broadcast, cable and streaming platforms in 2019.
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/presence-vs-representation-report-breaks-down-lgbtq-visibility-tv-n1251153
You are not interpreting this correctly. I as an LGBT person know many people. I’m the supporting cast member in many people’s lives. I’m the main character in my life. For proper representation, the MAIN CHARACTER must be 4.5% of all tv shows. Supporting cast percents mean nothing. That should be close to 100%. In life, we all know queer people. Wether it’s a coworker, a friend, a family member, a neighbor, whoever. Probably upwards of 90% of Americans know at least one queer person. What’s missing in representation are shows about LGBT people. Preferably ones that don’t only cover coming out or trauma or death.
They are saying 6.7% of tv characters are gay. You just said that number should be closer to 100%. Got it.
TV is a business. 94.5% of tv viewers are straight. Do you think they are more or less likely to watch a show with a gay lead, if that's something they don't identify with?
Nearly 100% of the population knows a queer person therefore a queer person is a supporting cast member in 100% of the lives of American's. Therefore there should be a queer character in 100% of shows as a supporting character. 5% of shows should have a queer main character.
Where are you getting 5% from? The article says 26% of tv shows have LGBTQ characters.
The report also found that 26 percent of the top 300 programs included at least one cast member who identifies as LGBTQ.
The article also says:
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people make up an estimated 4.5 percent of the U.S. population
That means that in any group of 20, you can expect one person to be LGBTQ. Not every show is going to have a recurring cast of 20 characters. In fact, most don't.
And not everyone knows a gay person. The number is not 100%, the number is 87%. (I'm going to assume the 30% who know a trans person also know a gay person.)
Nearly nine-in-ten U.S. adults (87%) say they know someone who is gay or lesbian. Far fewer (30%) say they know someone who is transgender.
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2016/09/28/5-vast-majority-of-americans-know-someone-who-is-gay-fewer-know-someone-who-is-transgender/
So of those 87% who know a gay person, not all of them know a gay person to the degree that they would be a recurring character in a show aboulr their life. Especially people with small social and family circles.
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