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Most LGBT characters who appear in mainstream media are white. LGBT people of color are often misrepresented and underrepresented in the media.<ref name="Huey, Asher 2012">{{cite web |author=Huey, Asher |title=Saving Santana's Storyline |work=The Huffington Post |date=23 January 2012 |access-date=7 November 2014 |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/asher-huey/santana-sexuality-glee_b_1217038.html}}</ref> Media representations of LGBT characters are disproportionately white.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Paceley |first1=Megan S. |last2=Flynn |first2=Karen |year=2012 |title=Media representations of bullying toward queer youth: gender, race, and age discrepancies |journal=Journal of LGBT Youth |volume=9 |issue=4 |pages=340–356 |doi=10.1080/19361653.2012.714187 |s2cid=143652044}}</ref> In [[GLAAD]]'s annual "Where We Are on TV" report, it was found that out of the 813 broadcast network's series regular characters, only 13% are black, 8% Latino/Latina, 4% Asian, and 2% multi-racial.<ref name="glaad1"/> Out of the 74 LGBT-identified characters on mainstream broadcast networks, only 11% are black, 11% Latina/Latino, and 5% Asian.<ref name="glaad1"/> People of color therefore make up 27% of characters and 34% of LGBT characters. What people see on television are white stories and experiences. "Media is indeed a powerful way to construct, modify, and spread cultural beliefs. Television drama is a form of media, which gets into our households, almost without us realizing it and informs us, the viewers, of a series of representations and values that are ingrained in Western society and, at the same time, are either reinforced or undermined within that cultural representation, in this case, television drama."<ref>{{cite journal |author=Oró-Piqueras, Maricel |title=Challenging Stereotypes? The Older Woman In The TV Series Brothers & Sisters |journal=Journal of Aging Studies |volume=31 |year=2014 |pages=20–25 |doi=10.1016/j.jaging.2014.08.004 |pmid=25456618}}</ref>
"Popular television shows including ''[[Will & Grace]]'', ''[[Sex and the City]]'', ''[[Brothers & Sisters (2006 TV series)|Brothers and Sisters]]'', and ''[[Modern Family]]'' routinely depict gay men. Yet the common characteristic among most televisual representations of gay men is that they are usually white."<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite journal |author=Martin, Alfred L Jr |url=https://cinema.usc.edu/archivedassets/31_2/7_Martin.pdf |title=TV in Black and Gay: Examining Constructions of Gay Blackness and Gay Crossracial Dating on GR
Moreover, non-white LGBT characters are often depicted as "race neutral".<ref name="autogenerated1"/> For example, on the [[ABC Family]] show, ''[[GR
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