And the amount being shown on tv is about equal to that percantage as well. Last year for prime time scripted series there were jsut over 30 LGBT characters, out of well over 800 characters. This made up less than 4% of the characters on TV. So really what is being represented on tv is pretty representative of the population.
There seems to be a lot of confusion over this issue. On the Timeless (2016) board, this thread:
www.imdb.com/title/tt5511582/board/nest/264357680contained this claim:
Every year, GLAAD counts every character on TV, counts every LGBT character, and does the math. Here's a link to this year's report: http://www.glaad.org/whereweareontv16
To save time - the number is less than 5% for regular characters on broadcast TV. 43 out of 895. I suspect most people have no idea that there are nearly 900 regular characters on broadcast TV alone.
43 is nearly 50% more than your claim of 30, and 800 vs 895 is not proportional. For exact numbers, 30 of 800 is 3.75%, while 43 of 895 is 4.8%.
I did some math in that thread and long story short the estimated percentage of regular homosexual characters to all regular characters depicted in primetime is around 18%, well above the estimates of the actual homosexual population. On Monday alone I counted 14 homosexual characters- to say there are only 16 to 29 more in the other 6 days of programming is unlikely:
Let's look at the prime time lineup for when Timeless airs on Monday (I'm excluding "reality" shows since they do not use characters):
ABC: 1 show, 1 character
CBS: 5 shows, 0 characters
CW: 2 shows, 5 characters total (both shows have at least 1 character)
FOX: 2 shows, 7 characters (both shows have at least 1 character)
NBC: 1 show, 1 character
Total shows: 11
Total homosexual characters: 14
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