The Year in Gay Television: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Betty
For Being Broadcast in Color, Television Sure Doesn’t Have Much of It
While the landscape on television is bleak for gay men, it’s even bleaker for gay men of color. Logo’s Noah’s Arc, one of the only shows on television solely about black gay men, wrapped up its second season with no official word on whether or not a third season would be shot. (A movie version is rumored to be in the works).
With Noah’s Arc no longer airing new episodes and here!’s The DL Chronicles available only via subscription service, the only regularly occurring gay men of color on television are Oscar on Halfway Home (and on NBC’s The Office), Omar Little on The Wire, Calvin on Greek, and Lloyd on Entourage though he skirts close to being “barely there