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Business Title: Hollywood So Straight: Studio Films With LGBT Characters Dropped to Record Low Last Year The number of Hollywood films featuring LGBTQ characters plummeted nearly 40 percent in 2017 compared to the year prior, an annual survey of the major movie studios by GLAAD said on Tuesday. The group found that just 14 wide releases from the majors, as well as offerings from their indie divisions, were inclusive of queer identities in 2017, a drop from 23 films in 2016. Only 12.8 percent of studio films contained characters who identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual or queer — the lowest percentage of LGBTQ-inclusive major studio releases since GLAAD began tracking in 2012. Trans characters were absent entirely from wide releases (though the report does contain praise for the Oscar-winning trans story “A Fantastic Woman,” released by Sony Pictures Classics). “On screen, record-breaking films like ‘Black Panther’ and ‘Wonder Woman’ prove that not only does inclusion make for great stories — inclusion is good for the bottom line. It is time for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer stories to be included in this conversation and in this movement,” said GLAAD CEO Sarah Kate Ellis in a fiery introduction the survey, called the Studio Responsibility Index (SRI). Now in its sixth year, the SRI applies a secondary test to the films that rate as inclusive. Called the Vito Russo Test, it’s a set of parameters that vets a given film for the quality of its depiction of queer people (often in mainstream commercial fare, gay people are used as punchlines or provoke anxiety in straight characters). Universal Pictures got the highest score of any studio, but was still labeled “insufficient,” by the SRI. Of fourteen wide releases. four of the studio’s films made the grade. The highest praise was for Jordan Peele’s “Get Out.” It’s a blink-and-miss moment, but there’s a revelation that Allison Williams’ character Rose also recruited at least one woman (Betty Gabriel) to bring home to her family, who conduct a sinister procedure that implants the brains of white people into able black bodies. “The film’s presentation of the photo seems to be in line with the reveal of other love interests that Rose has brought home,” the study found. It wasn’t necessarily thrilled with the fate that awaited Gabriel’s character — which happens often with queer women in scripted content. Behind Universal was 20th Century Fox (whose touching coming-out movie “Love, Simon” was released in 2018 and did not count for this survey) which merited inclusion for a gay male couple in “Alien: Covenant” and the creative and crucial deployment of Elton John in the plot of “Kingsman: The Golden Circle.” Fox was dinged for a portrayal of platonic female friendship in Amy Schumer’s “Snatched.” Paramount received a “poor” rating, with just two inclusive films (Ruby Rose’s character in “XxX: The Return of Xander Cage” being one), along with Lionsgate. Disney’s eponymous label and portfolio studios Marvel, Lucasfilm and Pixar tied for last place with Sony Pictures — with both studios only releasing one inclusive film and both earning a “poor” rating. There was a small silver lining — while depictions of queer people are still overwhelmingly stories of gay men, people of color counted for 57 percent of those characters last year. None among them were Asian or Pacific Islander, however. Ellis and leadership from GLAAD hosted a breakfast at the Beverly Hills offices of agency WME on Tuesday morning, where they presented the SRI to industry players. Lena Waithe and TK sat for a panel discussion afterwards to discuss how Hollywood can increase quality representation in film. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest "The number of Hollywood films featuring LGBTQ characters ..." Whoa! What happened to LGBTQIAGNC (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, asexual and gender-non-conforming)? "Trans" would include transgender, transsexual, transvestite and transitioning.
#2. To: All (#0) "Only 12.8 percent of studio films contained characters who identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual or queer". Which is 4X the percentage of the LGBTQ population. This is setting off alarm bells in the gay community? It used to be 0% not that long ago and I for one wouldn't mind if it returned there. Plus, these films always portray LGBTQ characters in a positive light -- kind, understanding, stoic, intelligent, creative, blah, blah, blah. Hey! How about a real-life portrayal? Selfish, hedonistic, drug-using, depressed, suicidal, perpetual-sex-on-their-mind, different sexual partners every week, hanging out at parks, restrooms, and truck stops, grooming young boys. If they demand representation then I say we give them representaion, not a propaganda platform.
#3. To: misterwhite (#0) Think it will ever occur to them that nobody cares about this but them? In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments. #4. To: misterwhite (#2) (Edited) The new incureable aids Will solve all of Their problems Love If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons - question marks are for girlie boys ! #5. To: misterwhite (#2) Plus, these films always portray LGBTQ characters in a positive light -- kind, understanding, stoic, intelligent, creative, blah, blah, blah. You only see non-tragic homos in films in the last ten years or so. In popular media up through the Nineties, there were no happy homos. They were figures of tragedy, perversion, futility, ridicule, and usually ended miserably after fairly brief appearances in the movie.
Hey! How about a real-life portrayal? Selfish, hedonistic, drug-using, depressed, suicidal, perpetual-sex-on-their-mind, different sexual partners every week, hanging out at parks, restrooms, and truck stops, grooming young boys. Democratic primaries...
#6. To: Tooconservative (#5) In popular media up through the Nineties, there were no happy homos. They were figures of tragedy, perversion, futility, ridicule, and usually ended miserably after fairly brief appearances in the movie. The few movies I remember, gays were portrayed that way to get sympathy from the audience -- Dog Day Afternoon, Philadelphia, Cruising. Now, of course, gays are portrayed in movies and on TV as simply an alternative lifestyle choice.
#7. To: misterwhite (#6) (Edited) Now, of course, gays are portrayed in movies and on TV as simply an alternative lifestyle choice. Now they want to present them as happy or as people whose lives are being ruined by hateful Republicans/Christians. And we have the current fave, Call Me By Your Name, where they celebrate a 25yo man molesting a 17yo teen boy. No one ever explains why a 25yo man has any interest in a teen boy or why the the teen's parents have no objection to this relationship. It's Child-Molesting Lite, the kind of child molesting we can all celebrate. Apparently. As for your original article above, there is a decline in this year's offering for gay characters and gay movie themes. That's because they've kind of exhausted the audience for those and have subsequently reduced the number of movies dealing with those consistent money-losing themes and characters. So they've gone from making more gay movies/characters than the market had any interest in to a reduction in those and now Teh Gayz are screaming discrimination. It's like a script whose every plot twist is easily anticipated. We've seen this movie before.
#8. To: Tooconservative (#7) Now they want to present them as happy or as people whose lives are being ruined by hateful Republicans/Christians. Yeah, that seems to be the current running theme. When a gay character makes an appearance on screen, you just know that's going to be followed by some conservative boob who reacts somehow ... then needs to be gently, but firmly, shown the error of his ignorant and old-fashioned ways. Joseph Goebbels is spinning in his grave knowing that gays (of all people) are using his methods.
#9. To: Tooconservative (#7) Call Me By Your Name Lust portrayed as love, which justifies anything. Do they end up happily ever after, living together in bliss, perhaps getting married? Nah. Summer's over - - I'm outta here.
#10. To: misterwhite (#8) Yeah, that seems to be the current running theme. The ones they never stop making are the teen-boy-coming-out movies. It seems every gay director or actor has made a half-dozen of these. Just how many movies about teen boys popping out of a closet is America supposed to want to watch? I would guess they're dropping some of the gay characters and they'll do a rinse-and-repeat strategy but using trannies this time. I think they'll start with a tranny comedy movie to try to make their "breakout" movie in the genre.
#11. To: Tooconservative (#10) (Edited) The ones they never stop making are the teen-boy-coming-out movies. Like they know who or what they are at that age, compounded by the fact that they're so sex-crazed they'd fuck a bush if they thought a bird was in it. "John is 17 and finds himself in love with Jim ... and Jane, and his 80-year- old neighbor, and his Spanish teacher, and that knothole in a tree, and that dog over there, and his right hand, and ..." Gun-grabbibg, Tide-PODS-eating, teenage jerk. Get off my lawn.
#12. To: misterwhite (#11) Like they know who or what they are at that age, compounded by the fact that they're so sex-crazed they'd fuck a bush if they thought a bird was in it. It really does vary a lot. Some boys (and girls) know from a pretty early age which sex they are attracted to. But there are others who take years longer for the issue to sort itself out.
#13. To: Tooconservative (#12) Some boys (and girls) know from a pretty early age which sex they are attracted to. Attracted to, sure. But they're too young to know why they're attracted to that person. Maybe that person is a respected and loved teacher. Or a kind and helpful classmate. A close friend. A confidant. A popular school athlete. These boys and girls need time and guidance in sorting out their feelings to differentiate between admiration, respect, friendship, comfort, or love. And love doesn't have to be sexual.
#14. To: misterwhite (#11) Like they know who or what they are at that age, compounded by the fact that they're so sex-crazed they'd fuck a bush if they thought a bird was in it. LOL!
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