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It's mostly a positive thing, though I'm not sure we can say that TV does much for the T part of LGBT. Someone can correct me on that, since I don't really watch TV anymore. There are still other minority groups that are ignored in TV (and other media and art forms and all), so I won't get too excited.
Kind of irrelevant, but I was surprised to read other posters in this thread state that they'd given up on TV. Whenever I tell people I don't have a TV, they think I've lost my mind. Guess I'm not so alone.
I voted "other", because I think the fact that alternate lifestyles are becoming mainstreamed in media is good in itself, but worry that sometimes it is taken a step too far. I also don't like the sterotyping of any group of people, because it fosters an "us/them" mentality.
I happen to know plenty of people who are either gay, lesbian, or bisexual (I am not aware of any TGs among my circle of friends, but I would probably not be advertising if I was a TG myself either) and guess what - they don't all have mullets and wear checkered flannel shirts, nor do they all have a flair for decorating, talk with a lisp or have loose wrist movements and shop at A&F.
I guess what I'm trying to say is I prefer portrayals of people in TV being of an alternate lifestyle as that being a matter-of-fact, and not as the character's sole identity. If the character's gayness is all they want to talk about then I'm changing the channel.
For instance: I think gay marriage should in fact be allowed, I am a live-and-let-live person for the most part. As part of a nation that was launched to separate church and state, I really don't see why anyone would oppose that. Maybe if we could overcome that hurdle, TV producers might get a clue and create characters and shows that are honest portrayals and not some clown act (i.e. how the landlord in the series Three's Company would use terms like "Twinkle Toes" and do that limp wrist thing).
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