Too many LGBTQ+ TV characters disappeared this year because their series was canceled: report
There were only 468 LGBTQ+ characters in the 2023-2024 television season, and a significant chunk of them won't be returning.
April 30, 2024
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There were only 468 LGBTQ+ characters in the 2023-2024 television season, and a significant chunk of them won't be returning.
Prime Video is officially saying goodbye to young adult drama The Wilds.
Disney and YouTube canceled the series after news broke of the star's videos featuring Nazi imagery and anti-Semitic jokes.
The show was canceled after a series of racist tweets by Barr, but her behavior didn't affect her Emmy eligibility.
Producers Gloria Calderon Kellett and Mike Royce announced that there would be no Hail Mary for the series that was saved from cancellation once before.Â
ABC canceled the smash series following Roseanne Barr's racist tweet, but it's not at all shocking the show would go up in flames.Â
Netflix canceled the series, which features a sweet LGBTQ+ romance, just months shortly after its first season premiered in August.Â
The cohost of The Talk spoke for the first time about the series' cancellation following Barr's racist tweet, and said the show has always been about "diversity, love, and inclusion."Â
The show's third season is now its last.Â
When networks give us stories about LGBTQ people, people of color, women, and other marginalized people, it's imperative that we watch.Â
A League of Their Own’s queer co-creator Will Graham thanked fans and urged them to find and hold on to joy amid the show’s cancellation by Amazon Studios, which comes at a tough political moment for LGBTQ+ people.
At a screening of Queering the Script, the actress who plays a Latinx lesbian character on the beloved series shared what it was like to watch fans save ODAAT.Â
A Nashville-area Chamber of Commerce leader was distressed over the cancellation of the Tim Allen show.
"Do we really want our children to lose their innocence to sexual wickedness?," reads a petition from the Christian Film and Television Commission.
Response to the show's trailer prompted an online petition signed by more than 120,000 people urging Netflix to cancel the show.