Homosexuality in Popular Media

I have absolutely zero idea when this started happening, mostly because I cannot bear to watch the stupidity that is official media, but the topic of homosexuality has been put to my notice many times as if in a recent surge. I just started to notice it, through news outlets like Google and reddit, and I suppose less presentable imageboards. I cannot say that I’m necessarily impacted by this, at least directly. If this were to happen in my own country, then I’d have quite something to write about, but not here. However, it is still a bit startling to see, simply because of how it’s out of the ordinary. I recognise fully that a lot of presentations I see are simply romanticised versions of the real world, and should be taken with a grain of salt. The thing is that has been true for everything else in the media anyways; so honestly it does not strike me as odd, and is also one of the reasons television is never to be taken seriously. However, it still paints gay people in a much more positive light that I have seen before, that I care to see.