BBC children's programmes should include more lesbian, gay and bisexual people, a report of the corporation recommends.


A panel of nine experts said youngsters should be introduced to sexual diversity in their early years.


While there has been a gradual increased in the representation of these people, they remain 'still relatively invisible' in the media, they said.


The report concluded: 'The LGB [lesbian, gay and bisexual] experts feel that the BBC should seek to incorporate the portrayal of LGB people within programming targeted at children, to familiarise audiences through incidental portrayal from an early age.'



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