If film studios want to stay relevant to today's audiences and compete in an industry that is emphasizing diversity and inclusion, then they must urgently reverse course on the diminishing representation of LGBTQ women and people of color, as well as the complete absence of trans characters.”
“Despite seeing a record high percentage of LGBTQ-inclusive films this year, the industry still has a long way to go in terms of fairly and accurately representing the LGBTQ community. “Film has the power to educate, enlighten, and entertain audiences around the world and, in today's divisive political and cultural climate, we must prioritize telling LGBTQ stories and the stories of all marginalized people,” said GLAAD President and CEO, Sarah Kate Ellis. Four of the eight studios hit this 20 percent goal individually - Paramount Pictures at 33 percent (up from 20% last year), United Artists Releasing at 29 percent, Lionsgate at 25 percent, and Walt Disney Studios at 21 percent. In 2018’s Studio Responsibility Index, GLAAD called on the major film studios to ensure that 20 percent of annual releases include LGBTQ characters by 2021 and 50 percent be inclusive by 2024. Subsidiary releases from art house studios counted two LGBTQ characters with disabilities, both from Sony Pictures Classics. This year, there was only one character with a disability in major releases (Poe, Lionsgate’s Five Feet Apart). Bisexual representation slightly decreased to 14 percent, with only three films featuring bi characters, an equal number of films to the previous year.įor the third year in a row, transgender characters were entirely absent from major studio releases.įor the first time in the report’s history, GLAAD also tallied LGBTQ characters with disabilities. Lesbian representation has decreased significantly, down to 36 percent (8) of inclusive films. Gay men appear in 68 percent (15) of inclusive films, an increase from last year’s 55 percent. This year’s report also shows a decrease in lesbian and bisexual representation compared to gay men. GLAAD is calling on the studios to ensure that within two years at least half of their LGBTQ characters are people of color. In 2019, just 34 percent of LGBTQ characters were people of color (17 of 50), down from 42 percent in the previous report and a decrease of twenty-three percentage points from the 57 percent of LGBTQ characters of color in 2017. There was a significant decrease in racial diversity of LGBTQ characters for the third consecutive year. GLAAD noted a concerning continuation of a downward trend in terms of racial diversity of LGBTQ characters in this year’s report. Lionsgate, Paramount Pictures, United Artists Releasing, and Universal Pictures received “Insufficient” grades Sony Pictures Entertainment and Walt Disney Studios received “Poor” grades and STX Films received a “Failing” grade with no LGBTQ representation whatsoever. While the number of characters increased, no film studio received a grade of “Good” or higher based on the quality, quantity, and diversity of LGBTQ representation in the studios’ slate.
This represents a slight increase from the previous year’s report (18.2%, 20 out of 110 films) and the highest percentage of inclusive films found in the eight-year history of the report.
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These studios were Lionsgate, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, STX Films, United Artists Releasing, Universal Pictures, The Walt Disney Studios, and Warner Bros.įor the full report, visit: GLAAD found that of the 118 films released from major studios in 2019, 22 (18.6%) included characters that were lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer (LGBTQ). Los Angeles, CA - Thursday, J– GLAAD, the world’s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, today released its eighth annual Studio Responsibility Index ( SRI), a report that maps the quantity, quality, and diversity of LGBTQ characters in films released by the eight film studios that had the highest theatrical grosses from films released in the 2019 calendar year and four of their subsidiaries as reported by box office database Box Office Mojo. More than half of all LGBTQ characters receive under three minutes of screen time and transgender characters remain completely absent for the third year in a row LGBTQ representation in film saw its highest ever recorded year, but racial diversity of LGBTQ characters, as well as the number of queer women characters dropped Of the 8 major film studios tracked, all studios receive grade of “Insufficient” representation or worse