GLAAD Ranks Film Studios by LGBT Roles: First Annual ‘Studio Reponsibility Index’
Out of the 101 releases from the major studios in 2012, 14 of them contained characters identified as lesbian, gay, or bisexual. Not one of the releases contained a transgender character.
More than half of those inclusive films (55.6%) featured gay male characters, while another 33% featured lesbian characters and 11% contained bisexual characters. Male characters represented 63% of LGBT images on screen, while female characters made up just 37%
Of the 31 different characters counted (some of whom were onscreen for no more than a few seconds), 17 were white (84.4%), while only four were Black/African American (12.5%) and one was Latino (3.1%). There were no Asian-Pacific Islander or recognizably multi-racial LGBT characters counted.
The most common place to find LGBT characters in the major studios’ 2012 releases was in comedies, where nine of the 24 comedies released (37.5%) were inclusive. By comparison, 34 genre films (action, sci-fi, fantasy, etc.) made up the majority of the 2012 releases, though only three (8.8%) of those included any LGBT characters. Additionally, only one of 21 dramas (4.7%) and one of four documentaries (25%) were inclusive, while there were no LGBT characters in any animated or family-oriented films from the ‘Big Six.’
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