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Phil Nugent of Nerve dissects the television industry’s timidity in 10 Sexual Controversies That Changed TV. Commenters take Nugent to task over painting an excessively gloomy picture of Hollywood’s handling of gay issues, so don’t miss the wrap-up at the end.
But honestly, who looks to network TV for cutting edge programming? All gays are either asexual, or sexual far off camera; all teenagers contemplating premarital sex decide against it (That Seventies Show was a notable exception); all pregnant teens invariably decide not to abort. One does not look to television for spine.
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True. Some shows try, but not very hard. House did the Lesbian thing a couple times (girl on girl is more acceptable apparently.), and BSG did the interracial marriage thing as par for the course, but thBSG one had one gay couple, and it was very short lived.