GLAAD Gives Studios Failing Grades: LGBTQ Representation At All Time Low
by Ben Shapiro, Daily Wire:
Apparently, Hollywood handing an Oscar to the pederast fantasy “Call Me By Your Name” this past year was not enough to satisfy the LGBTQ representation quota, according to GLAAD.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, GLAAD has given Hollywood movie studios a failing grade for 2017 for the lack of LGBTQ characters on screen. In fact, the studios have actively rejected LGBTQ characters on screen, they claim.
In a new survey of the 109 films released theatrically by the major studios last year, the advocacy group GLAAD reports that gay, lesbian, bi, trans and queer characters appeared in only 14 films, just 12.8 percent of the total releases, a dramatic drop from the 18.4 percent of the studio features that were judged to be inclusive in 2016. In fact, that is the lowest percentage of films containing LGBTQ characters since GLAAD began issuing its annual report in 2012.
Given that LGBTQ Americans make up just 3.8% of the population, a representation rate of 12.8% is actually over-representation. If previous years were as high as 18.4%, then one is poised to ask what on earth is the cap for GLAAD?
“A lot of the gay appearances in 2017 films were also fleeting,” reports THR. “Of the 14 films that included LGBTQ characters, in half of them those characters had less than five minutes of screen time, the study found.
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