Gay Entertainment Hasn't Quite Arrived

Gay men in entertainment have made incredible strides in recent years, scoring at the Oscars, the Emmys, on Broadway and the bestseller lists. It’s enough to make a person think that we’ve arrived. That we’ve entered some golden age, where all will be perfect, or nearly so, from here on out.
Not so fast. For one thing, despite a few high-profile projects, we’re still not represented in books and movies and TV shows in numbers anywhere near our actual percentage of the population.

Overcoming these obstacles will not be easy. It will take more gay writers and producers willing to force the issue. It will take our standing up to entrenched forces every inch of the way. And it will take audiences stepping up and staring down the bigots, demanding that these entertainment options be available from the nation’s television networks, chain stores, and movie theaters.