Archive for October 2nd, 2009

Names and faces: New OP members meet up at Chelsea mixer

October 2, 2009

We were lucky enough to meet some new OP members last night at a lively mixer at the spacious Chelsea home of former board president Michael Tracy.

If you see our new members at upcoming events, say hi!

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Julian Emanuel, board member/OPLynx’s Twilla Duncan
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Bernard Leibov, Dominic Cullen, Brian Schumann, Peter Thyne

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Virginia Lentino, OP board member Colleen Mastrovasellis, Lance Tukell
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Enrico Rodriguez, Robert Seidel

More lesbian and gay characters on TV, but still not much, GLAAD reports

October 2, 2009

TV Gay Characters

Apparently, GLAAD has an intern who watches television with notebook in hand, counting lesbian and gay characters.

She or he helped release a report yesterday that revealed LGBT personages account for a whopping 3% of all regular characters on network prime-time shows.

Believe it or not, that’s an improvement; last year’s figure was 2.6%.

Please.  We know that homosexuals account for more than 2.6% of people working in TV.

By the way, that’s Olivia Wilde’s House character Thirteen, above.

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