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Check Out This Preview Of All The Gays You’ll Be Ogling on TV

Remember all the suspense when it was rumored that Ellen DeGeneres would play the highest-profile gay character in TV history? They teased that episode for weeks, and we fondly recall a commercial where Ellen gestured to her cleavage in a low-cut blouse and said, “you know this talk about me coming out? This is all they’re talking about.”

Nowadays, though, gay characters are de rigueur, and it seems like every season is gayer and gayer. GLAAD took a sneak peek behind the scenes at the queers coming down the tubes in the 2011-2012 television season, and it looks promising!

 

 

Good Christian Belles is basically Steel Magnolias meets Desperate Housewives by the creator of Sex and the City. This is what’s known in the industry as gay man’s wet dream.

ABC, You had us at “CHENOWETH.”

 

We are absolutely fascinated by the premise of NBC’s The Playboy Club, which sounds like a sort of Mad Men meets The L Word. Quoth GLAAD:

Set amongst one of the staff and clientele of one of the infamous “Playboy clubs” in 1960’s Chicago, the show will include a bunny named Alice who’s a closeted lesbian in a marriage of convenience with a gay man.  In fact, she and her husband are both secretly members of the Mattachine Society, the pioneering LGBT rights organization, and both are expected to have active romantic lives.

Are you serious? Can this be true? And not even on cable, but on NBC? Be still our hearts. Here’s a clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ghg-q_6lpg&feature=relmfu

We cannot get over how exciting this show looks. And yup, that’s Broadway star Laura Benanti (Gypsy) singing on stage.

But that’s not all from NBC! Take a look at this little number, which we can only describe as being sort of Glee meets Black Swan with Anjelica Huston. Yes, really.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U_SlMpFJvk&feature=player_embedded

We have to admit that this trailer made us a little misty-eyed. But then again, we cry every time we watch The Muppet Movie.

See you in the fall, awesome shows!

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