TV: Gayer than ever!

Just starting to come down off our sugar high from an Emmy weekend filled with way too many micro-mini molten chocolate cupcakes. Eat enough of those things (so itty bitty cute, with powdered sugar on top!) and sleep will elude you, trust us.

But it's back to real news, we mean aside from reporting and re-reporting the record-low ratings of the Emmycast. That just never gets old.

One of the top stories today? TV is gay. No, really gay.

GLAAD has just released its annual survey of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender roles on network TV and found that there's an all-time high 16 such characters appearing regularly on prime time series. (Including cable or even just Showtime or a Big Gay Al-centric "South Park" episode would've made these number a lot bigger).

Looking at the details of the GLAAD study, we realize there's no ghetto-izing going on here. One of the characters -- Will Arnett as Jack Donaghy's nemesis on "30 Rock" -- is an Emmy nominated role. (Arnett recently lost to his fellow "30 Rock" guest star Tim Conway). But many other regular and recurring characters are found on Emmy nominated or Emmy winning shows like "The Office," "Grey's Anatomy," "House," "Ugly Betty," "The Simpsons" and "ER."

There's more LGBT characters than ever, according to GLAAD's 13 previous studies, and not just the Baldwin guy's lover on "Dirty Sexy Money."

Who's the gayest network? Fox. Gay-less? CBS.

More details here, and even more here on GLAAD's site where you can examine four-year trends in TV gayness and see that Roger the Alien (pictured) on "American Dad" is the only character described as "bisexual/non-human."