GLAAD’s “Where We Are on TV” study 

This year found a 6% decrease in the number of LGBTQ characters across broadcast, cable and streaming — and the cancellation/ending of shows surely isn’t helping matters.
Ahead of the latest study’s measurement period, the cancellation of Batwoman, Charmed, DC’s Legend of Tomorrow, 4400, Legacies and Naomi (on just The CW alone), plus Killing Eve, Claws, Dickinson, Astrid and Lily Save the World, The Wilds, Genera+ion, Y: The Last Man, Dear White People, Gentefied and Saved by the Bell (to name but a few), had already made a dent in LGBTQ representation.

 Several new broadcast-TV series feature central LGBTQ characters, including ABC’s The Rookie: Feds, The CW’s Gotham Knights
 and NBC’s Quantum Leap

 Of the 596 LGBTQ characters counted in this report, only 27 (4.5%) have a disability, far below actual population estimates. What’s more, the three from broadcast-TV — Roswell, New Mexico‘s Sgt. Alex Manes and New Amsterdam‘s Dr. Bloom and Dr. Wilder — were from ended series. On cable, six of the nine LGBTQ characters living with disabilities were from the anthology American Horror Story: NYC, and thus won’t be seen again. Speaking of which,,,,

 GLAAD counted eight LGBTQ characters living with HIV — six from FX’s American Horror Story: NYC, and the remaining two from the cancelled series The Midnight Club and Queer as Folk

Read full article: https://www.glaad.org/whereweareontv22