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{{cquote|Network television has begun to cancel homosexual characters from their sitcoms while cable television has cast more this year. The organization, Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, GLAAD, is in upset over the decrease of homosexual characters on network television.<ref>http://media.www.theloquitur.com/media/storage/paper226/news/2007/10/11/AE/Sitcoms.Cancel.Homosexuality-3033576.shtml</ref>}}

{{cquote|Network television has begun to cancel homosexual characters from their sitcoms while cable television has cast more this year. The organization, Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, GLAAD, is in upset over the decrease of homosexual characters on network television.<ref>http://media.www.theloquitur.com/media/storage/paper226/news/2007/10/11/AE/Sitcoms.Cancel.Homosexuality-3033576.shtml</ref>}}

==Homosexuality and the Media and American History==

==Homosexuality in the Media and American History==

In 2002, [[NewsMax]] reported the following regarding homosexuality and the media in regards to how the United States press used to cover the homosexuality issue:

In 2002, [[NewsMax]] reported the following regarding homosexuality and the media in regards to how the United States press used to cover the homosexuality issue:

{{cquote|Four decades ago, media coverage of homosexuality was universally hostile. McGowan recalls Time magazine's description of homosexuality as a "pathetic little second-rate substitute for reality, a pitiable flight from life" deserving "no encouragement, no glamorization, no rationalization, no fake status as minority martyrdom, no sophistry about simple differences in taste, and above all no pretence that it is anything but a pernicious sickness."

{{cquote|Four decades ago, media coverage of homosexuality was universally hostile. McGowan recalls Time magazine's description of homosexuality as a "pathetic little second-rate substitute for reality, a pitiable flight from life" deserving "no encouragement, no glamorization, no rationalization, no fake status as minority martyrdom, no sophistry about simple differences in taste, and above all no pretence that it is anything but a pernicious sickness."