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The Database, Live
Shows
2,255
TV series & films
Characters
7,293
Characters tracked since 2014
Actors
6,070
Who played them
Dead
646
1 in 11 characters
Bury Your Gays
Death Statistics
646 characters (1 in 11) have been killed off.
The (sadly) best-known trope in queer TV.
Where queer TV lives
2,255 shows across 333 stations & networks:
Around 1 in 10 shows air on Netflix.
- Netflix10.9%
- YouTube9.1%
- ABC4.6%
- NBC4.3%
- 329 other networks71.1%
Around the world
2,255 shows across 41 nations:
Nearly 6 in 10 shows come from USA.
- USA58.7%
- United Kingdom10.5%
- Japan10.5%
- Canada4.6%
- 37 other nations15.7%
Statistics are updated daily.