Wheel of Fortune’s enduring popularity and daytime roots has long associated it with Middle America in the minds of many Americans, but viewers tuning in today will quickly discover that this is not your mother’s Wheel of Fortune. The contestants on Wheel are increasingly diverse compared to the contestants 20 years ago, and the diversity isn’t just in front of the camera, either: there are several openly gay women among the 50 or so full-time staff members at Wheel…

I think what Sarah Warn is trying to get at in Wheel of Fortune Reflects Changing Attitudes Towards Gays is Wheel of Fortune hires people and has human contestants. And this is progress.

Sorry, you’re not going to get any excitement out of me because a butch lesbian contestant appeared on an episode in December 2003. Wow.

Yea… I know this piece is from June 2004, but I’m just reading it now – so maybe you are too.