No one tells you how to come out. There’s no guidebook that details exactly what you should say, no song that accurately sums up how you should feel, and no television show that allows you to look at a character and say, “this is my journey". Or at least I never thought there was, until this season of Supergirl.
That’s not to say that television hasn’t given us tons of coming out stories over the years. In the past year or so especially, we’ve seen an influx of gay characters and same-sex relationships dominate the small screen, though there is still a long, long way to go. (According to GLAAD, 2016 had the highest percentage of LGBTQ series regulars on broadcast TV since the organization started measuring diversity on the small screen — 43 regulars (4.8%) were identified as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer.) Read more...
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