commanderoswald:

This is day 80/365 of 2016 and Dr. Denise Cloyd is the 8th queer woman to die on primetime this year. A queer woman has died on our screens every 10 days in 2016.

According to GLAAD’s 2015 report of “Where We Are On TV” of the 881 regular characters expected
to appear on broadcast primetime
programming this year, 4% were identified as gay, lesbian, or
bisexual. There were 23 lesbian characters, 33 gay characters, 12 bisexual females, and 2 bisexual males.

In 2015 there were only 35 fictional wlw characters on television and 80 days into 2016 they’ve killed 10 of them. 

That is almost a third. 

In less than 3 full months of the year.

Let that sink in.