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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>}}

Increasingly, there are shows which feature gays as lead characters, often in the role of the [[gay cupid]]. For example, ''[[Will and Grace]]'', where the homosexual, Will, aids his childhood friend Grace in dating, or the show ''Queer Eye for the Straight Guy'', where "talented" homosexuals impose their style upon "desperate" heterosexuals in need of love advice. Furthermore, several shows mask homosexual behavior by displaying it as the behavior of heterosexuals or those with an urge to experiment in their sexuality. A well-known example in the television program ''[[Sex and the City]]''.

Increasingly, there are shows which feature gays as lead characters, often in the role of the [[gay cupid]]. For example, ''[[Will and Grace]]'', where the homosexual, Will, aids his childhood friend Grace in dating, or the show ''Queer Eye for the Straight Guy'', where "talented" homosexuals impose their style upon "desperate" heterosexuals in need of love advice. Many other shows have a [[token gay]] character, which appears with fair regularity. Furthermore, several shows mask homosexual behavior by displaying it as the behavior of heterosexuals or those with an urge to experiment in their sexuality. A well-known example in the television program ''[[Sex and the City]]''.

==Homosexuality in the Media and American History==

==Homosexuality in the Media and American History==