As though there weren’t enough gay on TV already, ABC just
hired gay screenwriter and LGBT activist Dustin Lance Black to write a new gay
rights miniseries based on his life. The Hollywood Reporter announced [1]
that the new show is planned to be a “semi-autobiographical” drama “based on
and told from Black’s background and experiences as a gay rights activist.” 
Huffington Post picked up [2] the story and reported that the miniseries “will be told from Black’s perspective about his life growing up gay in a Mormon household to becoming a leader in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights movement.”
Black, who was supposedly raised in a “strict Mormon” home, has made a career of writing gay material: he scripted Milk, a film about California’s first openly gay politician, and also J. Edgar, a biopic portraying the famous FBI director as a closeted homosexual. Additionally, he wrote the play “8,” about the downfall of Proposition 8 in California.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Black “has worked tirelessly for marriage equality and gay rights as his career in Hollywood continued to rise.” He is a founding board member of the gay marriage activist group American Foundation for Equal Rights which sponsored the legal team that opposed Proposition 8.
Series with gay themes appear to be a favorite with the ABC TV team. Also in development is a miniseries adaptation of a documentary about AIDS activism which follows a group of HIV-positive (mostly gay) men.
But aggressively pro-gay material is nothing new to ABC, which has blatantly pushed social acceptance of gay marriage [3] in its shows like “The Fosters,” and other series that lead the way in all things gay. [4] With the anti-Prop 8 HBO documentary [5] already set to reach the small screen soon, it looks like pro-gay propaganda will continue to take up a sizeable chunk of TV time.