The struggles still faced by LGBT actors of colour on British TV

However, if you were asked to name a British TV series in recent years that centred on a queer character of colour, you’d likely struggle. Consider – it revealed representation of Black, Asian, and minority ethnic people actually went backwards on and off screen between August 2019 and July 2020. On-screen representation dropped from 22.7% in 2019 to 21.2% last year.

This makes ‘tokenism’ an issue; a sense of box-ticking. It was comedian and Bob Loves Abishola star Gina Yashere’s experience in the British industry, and it prompted her move to America to continue her career.‘But I just found myself continually being used to stop other people getting through the door. Whenever they were accused of racism, they would say, “We’ve got Gina.”’

Writer and composer Shiloh, who identifies as queer, revealed a casting director made a shocking comment at her audition for an LGBTQ+ character. ‘I know that I have loads of friends who are, who are straight and petite and they go for queer roles way more than me, because I know that within the media and within society, they’re more passing as queer when they’re not. That is such an unusual thing.’

Mika discovered their non-binary, trans-masculine identity through the process of writing their play Pink Lemonade, and is in the early stages of working with a production company on adapting it for TV. Cherrelle, who has started filming on a mystery Sky One series, highlighted a pattern for reinforcing a ‘Eurocentric’ idea of queer people on TV.‘The references that I looked at was Sugar Rush, which had Lenora Crichlow in it. I also watched Lip Service as well and I think what’s really interesting is these queer characters are light skinned women.

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