Comcast Boasts ‘Diversity,' On and Off Camera

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The new frontier just keeps arriving. New York magazine reports NBC programming chief Robert Greenblatt has given the go-ahead for a new sitcom called "The New Normal." NBC's new normal is about two gay men who start a family using a surrogate. Greenblatt is apparently so enamored with the concept that he's strongly considering having the 20th Century Fox TV-produced sitcom launch by August, following NBC's broadcast of the summer Olympics.

The show comes from Ryan Murphy, the gay creator of "Glee," "American Horror Story," and "Nip/Tuck." This is only part of a growing Comcast/NBC Universal campaign promoting homosexuality.

In April, gays were delighted that NBC's "Saturday Night Live" made history by adding their first lesbian featured player to the cast, Kate McKinnon. She came over from the Logo network's "Big Gay Sketch Show," where she played memorable characters such as Fitzwilliam, the self-loathing boy who longed for a "magical, enchanted vagina."

Ah, the new normal. The annual honors of the Point Foundation were held on April 16. The foundation aims to provide "financial support, mentoring, leadership training, and hope to meritorious students who are marginalized due to sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression." They gave their Inspiration Award to Focus Features — owned, like NBC, by Comcast — for "championing respect and inclusion of the LGBT community."