“It's through television that we got to tell the entire society and our own culture what our lives are really like. The next step toward progress is getting additional LGBTQ creators behind the camera as writers, directors and producers, he said. Cruz was asked why depictions of LGBTQ people of color lagged. “It’s a hunch.”Before openly LGBTQ characters came to TV, Sykes said, she tried to guess at possibilities. “Pretty sure Roz is gay," she said of a character on the 1986-92 sitcom “Night Court."

Source: ABC News January 19, 2020 20:19 UTC