Television

"The Amazing Race 21," the 21st race-around-the-world for a million bucks, kicks off on CBS on Sunday, September 30, and in a welcome change from last season's gay-free Race, this installment sees mixed in among the usual dating couples, twins and... monster truck drivers? -- three known members of Team Gay. [ Read more → ]

LOS ANGELES -- The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) on Thursday released its sixth annual Network Responsibility Index (NRI) -- a report that maps the quantity, quality and diversity of images of LGBT people on television -- and for the third year in a row, The CW was the top broadcast network with 29 percent of its prime time programming hours being LGBT-inclusive. [ Read more → ]

The NBC television affiliate in Salt Lake City, Utah -- which is owned by the Mormon Church -- said it will not air a new gay-themed sitcom, calling it "inappropriate on several dimensions, especially during family viewing time." [ Read more → ]

Ron Palillo, the actor who played Arnold Horshack on the 1970's sitcome "Welcome Back, Kotter," died Tuesday morning at his home in Palm Beach, Fla., from an apparent heart attack. He was 63. [ Read more → ]

Whether she’s rocking out as a musician, making us laugh talking about her Mom in her stand-up, guest starring on 30 Rock (and scoring an Emmy nomination!) or playing Teri on the fourth season of the Lifetime hit series Drop Dead Diva, Margaret Cho always gives 110%. [ Read more → ]

Look everywhere these days and Chris Colfer is probably there. His new children’s book, “The Land Of Stories: The Wishing Spell,” was just released in book stores and the film he wrote, produced and stars in, Struck By Lightning, was the closing film of Outfest in Los Angeles. [ Read more → ]

They're back. The latest target of the self-proclaimed "One Million Moms" -- whose supporters actually number around 48,000 -- is NBC's new fall series, "The New Normal," a comedy based on two gay dads and their surrogate mother. [ Read more → ]

Jimmie "J.J." Walker, best known as a former stand-up comedian who made famous the catchphrase "dyn-o-mite!" on the 1970's era sitcom "Good Times," said he is against marriage equality "on moral grounds." [ Read more → ]

That Chandler Massey would win the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series seems likes a no-brainer to those of us who have closely followed his work this past year. [ Read more → ]

Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka sat down with Oprah Winfrey last night on OWN’s Next Chapter series, and opened up about what life has been like since they had twins Gideon and Harper. [ Read more → ]

CNN anchor Ashleigh Banfield on Thursday, claimed that, unlike pedophilia and incest, “homosexuality is a lifestyle choice by people. It is voluntary." [ Read more → ]

LONDON -- Jim Paratore, who launched the TMZ website and produced "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" and "The Rosie O’Donnell Show," died Tuesday after suffering a massive heart-attack while vacationing in France, the BBC has reported. He was 58. [ Read more → ]

One of the most anticipated shows for the fall 2012 season will be The New Normal, from Ryan Murphy and Allison Adler. The show features Andrew Rannells (The Book of Mormon) and Justin Bartha (National Treasure) as a gay couple trying to have a child via surrogate. [ Read more → ]

Is Glee immoral? So immoral that progressives should stop watching it? That’s the contention of Alyssa Rosenberg at ThinkProgress.org, whose manifesto about the show’s immorality has been flying around the Internet, aided in part by 5,468 of my closest friends who emailed, Facebooked, and Tweeted me the link, asking what I thought... [ Read more → ]

During the April 19 edition of Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor,” Bill O’Reilly hosted a segment attacking this week’s episode of Glee for featuring a storyline about a transgender teenager struggling with her gender identity. [ Read more → ]

In this new video making the rounds on the internet today, the folks at "Funny or Die" present some other famous kids of the 1980s and 1990s who "want you to know that gays rule and Kirk Cameron drools." [ Read more → ]

Paul Iacono, the 23-year-old actor and former star of MTV’s "The Hard Times of RJ Berger" on Wednesday announced via Twitter and in an interview with The Village Voice that he is gay. [ Read more → ]

The southeastern Asian nation of Malaysia has banned television and radio programs programs that feature gay characters, an effort to curb the "influence" of the LGBT community, the country's Information Department has confirmed. [ Read more → ]

The award-winning news magazine "In the Life" this month will debut “Becoming Me,” featuring eight families with transgender and gender non-conforming children ranging in ages from 5 to 25. [ Read more → ]

Former teen actor Kirk Cameron on Tuesday responded to growing criticism of anti-gay remarks he made during an interview on CNN’s "Piers Morgan Tonight" last Friday, and called the backlash against him "slander." [ Read more → ]