a new storyline, "Sirens"

With the number of  gay characters limited to very few roles over the airways, the variety of character types that represent this demographic often becomes repetitive.

These characters are often featured in solidarity or in pairs where there is limited meaningful interaction between gay and straight characters that would be effective enough to make an actual statement of the underlying issue of gay rights.

More recently this type of dialogue has begun in TV shows like "Sirens" where multiple gay character types interact with straight characters in ways that would conduce that radical change in the representation of LGBT characters.



"Sirens" is TV show on USA network that stars two gay men of both races and opposing typical character types.

The white character rips the tropes of standard closet gay men who make it painfully obvious.  While the African American man is openly gay, and is even made look equally masculine to the heterosexual man with the comparison to his foil.

The real noticeable difference seen in "Sirens" in that not only are these LGBT characters present but they actually interact with the straight characters with such normality on topics of pornography, sex, and their previous lovers.  By bringing up normal topics that men discuss, putting equal representation of each viewpoint from both a gay and heterosexual viewpoint and discussing them in such regularity and normality it sets a new dialogue not seen before in LGBT representation.