Número de personagens LGBT nos EUA é recorde

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As tevês americanas estão em sintonia com o avanço da cidadania LGBT. A ONG arco-íris Glaad, especializada em mídia, divulgou que há 111 personagens LGBT nas emissoras do país. O maior número encontrado nos últimos oito anos.

A série mais inclusiva que passa na tevê aberta, adivinhe, é “Glee”, com dois gays, duas lésbicas e uma transexual. O título, quando o critério é tevê por assinatura, fica com ‘True Blood”, com seis personagens não-heterossexuais.

O presidente da Glaad, Herndon Graddick, comemora. “Mais e mais americanos tem aceito seus familiares, amigos, colegas de trabalho e conhecidos que são LGBT. E a audiência, ao ver tevê, espera que a tela reflita a diversidade que existe na vida.”

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Emmys 2012: 'Glee's' Naya Rivera on Playing a Lesbian Role Model

in: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/emmys-2012-glee-naya-rivera-343190


The actress, who will play host on a special Emmy video this year, talks with THR about Santana's coming out process and the awards season buzz surrounding her performance.

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"Glee's" Naya Rivera

Glee's Naya Rivera not only fronted the show's landmark 300th musical performance but made the production -- an Adele mash-up -- a poignant one as it represented a major moment in her character's coming out process.

During November's "Mash Off" episode, Rivera's Santana Lopez is pushed out of the closet after a confrontation with Finn (Cory Monteith) that ended with the jock calling her a coward.

Her public outing was a defining moment for the character and for Lopez, whose performance as the quick-witted cheerleader has been garnering Emmy attention for most of Glee's third season.

Now, the TV Academy has tapped Rivera to follow in the footsteps of Jane Lynch, Parks and Recreation's Adam Scott, Modern Family's Eric Stonestreet and several others to host a special 10-minute Emmy video that reaches an estimated 25 million people in more than 125 countries.

The Hollywood Reporter caught up with Rivera on Thursday after the young actress wrapped the Wednesday night shoot for the video (which bows on the TV Academy's YouTube channel July 23) to discuss Emmy buzz, emotional scenes and being a lesbian role model.

The Hollywood Reporter: What was filming the Emmy video like?
Naya Rivera: We started at 5 and were done by 6:30 p.m., I feel like I was doing nothing! (Laughs.) It was shot on a green screen and I was wearing an elegant gown; they wanted it to be glamorous like the Emmys and went over the shows that would be up for an award and explained about what the Emmys are doing on the website for this year's show and talked about Jimmy Kimmel, who's hosting. It's a huge honor, especially since people I admire have done this before me: Jane did it last year and she's quite the fan favorite.

How are you navigating the Emmy buzz surrounding your performance?
It's very exciting. I've been on the show for three seasons and each season for me gets better and better. I submitted "Mash Off," the episode that has "Rumor Has It," for Emmy consideration and thought that was a blessing to have an episode that was so well rounded. We are a comedy but I also got to show off some dramatic aspects of the character that I brought to it this season. For people to even think that I'd be considered or a good candidate for a supporting actress nomination is mind blowing to me.

Chris Colfer earned an Emmy nomination for his role after Kurt's coming out season. Did the thought of Emmy consideration ever pop into your head while you were filming the episode?
Definitely. Since we had people like Chris and his character Kurt go through similar things -- this was when it was all coming to a head and there were so many different layers to Santana's coming out story -- I definitely felt the pressure. When I got the script, the cast and crew were joking that this was my Emmy episode. A friend on the crew was texting me, "Happy Emmy Day" on the day we filmed  (laughs).

How did you approach filming the episode?
Eric Stoltz directed and I was happy to have him manning that ship in that episode. I approached it head-on. I don't like to waste opportunities, and especially being a supporting cast member on this show to really make the most of it and show [executive producers] Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan and all the writers that you can handle the things that they're giving you. Hopefully I did a good job with that.

After Santana came out on the show, did you alter the way you approached stepping into her shoes? 
Definitely. Her relationships and the way she interacted with a lot of the other characters -- especially the male ones. It was really hard because it had to have a subtlety to it; she still had to dish out insults to all the guys but I didn't want there to be a layer of hurt under it anymore. It had to be, "That's who she is," and she had to keep her softness with Brittany had to continue throughout the rest of the season.

How did you prepare for Santana's coming out scenes? The monologue she had with her grandmother was very powerful. Did you talk to Chris or Jane about it?
I'm blessed to have a number of close personal friends in my life who are gay and lesbian and I've heard their stories about high school and how it's still a struggle for them. I had that to take with me and I also infused my own feelings about love and relationships and how tough that is and those feelings of embarrassment when things don't work out your way. It was a combination of both.

What types of fan mail did you get after that?
Oh my gosh, I get so many stories of people that the story line truly touched them and and hit home for them. It's created a fan base for me that I never thought I'd have. I was reading that my episode of The Glee Project that the demographic of women went up like 27 percent. It's really cool to know that there are people out there that this does matter to and that your work does matter. 

Via Santana's story line, you've become a role model for lesbians -- recently repeating as AfterEllen.com's No. 1 on their annual Hot 100 list. What does being a lesbian icon and role model mean to you?
It still really hasn't hit me, to be honest with you. Those are big words: icon and role model. I never thought that would happen for me going into the show; it wasn't supposed to happen that way, it was scripted that way -- that's not who she was in Season 1, Episode 1 when she was mean to Rachel in the bathroom. It's really cool to see how it's evolved and it's given me the greatest fan base in the entire world.

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Glee Introduces Its First Transgender Character

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Glee, which received the GLAAD Media Award last year for Outstanding Comedy Series, raised the bar for diversity on network television again last night, when it introduced a new character named Unique, a transgender African American student and performer in rival glee club Vocal Adrenaline. The character is played by Alex Newell, who finished as a runner up on The Glee Project; the Oxygen reality show in which a group of hopefuls competed for a spot on Fox’s hit show.

Audiences first saw Unique as Wade, a shy student from a different high school who gushed with fandom for Kurt and Mercedes and asked for their advice on coping as outsiders. Wade recalled being tormented by other kids at school and even family members, and revealed that “Ever since I was a kid, I would play this game. Where I would pretend I was a different person. The person I dreamed of being. The real me. I even have a different name. Unique.”

Kurt offers some words of support, saying “I hope one day you have enough courage to be him.” To which Wade responds “Actually, Unique’s a her.”

But the key moment came later in the episode, after Kurt and Mercedes try to talk Unique out of performing in women’s clothes for fear of a backlash. Kurt tells her “I’ve worn some flamboyant outfits, but I’ve never dressed up as a woman.” To which Unique replies “That’s because you identify yourself as a man. I thought you of all people would understand.”

Rather than play it safe, Unique performs the KC & The Sunshine Band hit “Boogie Shoes” onstage wearing a flapper dress and glittery high heels, and receives a rapturous response from the crowd as you can see in the clip below. Kurt and Mercedes later remark how impressed they were with Unique’s resolve to be herself.

Actor Alex Newell was actually asked about the possibility of playing a transgender character on Glee back in August of last year, when the Hollywood Reporter noted during an interview that he had appeared in drag on The Glee Project several times. Alex replied that he’d be happy to, explaining that he understands how important representation in the media, saying “I go to different schools to visit friends and I see [transgender] kids and it’s hard. Not too many television shows shed light on that, it’s that hidden thing that not everybody wants to talk about. But it is there and there are people that want to be able to turn the television on and see somebody else who is just like them. I feel like if I were able to that, I’d be beside myself and happy.”

As one of The Glee Project’s runners-up, Alex is unfortunately only contracted to appear in one more episode of the show, but there is reason to be optimistic. If the writers and producers are happy enough with the character and the audience response, Unique could easily return in a recurring capacity much like Alex’s fellow Glee Projectveteran Damian McGinty, whose contract on the show was extended beyond the seven episode arc he was initially signed for. It would certainly be a great boon for LGBT diversity on television if Unique stuck around a little longer, but for now, fans can look forward to seeing her appear in the next original episode on April 24.

http://www.glaad.org/blog/glee-introduces-its-first-transgender-character

Tell Solar Entertainment in the Philippines to stop censoring gay scenes in Glee

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On March 15, 2011, the hit Fox show Glee marked a milestone in television history by showing the much-awaited kiss between gay characters Kurt (Chris Colfer) and Darren Criss (Blaine). But Filipinos were in for a disappointment.

Solar Entertainment, which broadcasts Glee in the Philippines, chose to censor this scene. The company has done it before and will do it again, perpetuating a vicious cycle of homophobia and discrimination against LGBTs in the Philippines.

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