GLAAD has released its annual Studio Responsibility Index, a measure of LGBT inclusivity in movies.
The results were disappointing: Only 17.5% of films from major studios included LGBT characters, and their portrayals were less diverse and less significant:
- Of the movies with LGBT characters, 77% featured gay men and 23% featured lesbians. Only 9% featured bisexual people and 5% featured transgender people.
- Only 25.5% of the LGBT characters were people of color.
- GLAAD uses the “Vito Russo test,” a measure similar to the Bechdel test, to measure the significance of LGBT characters and stories in a movie. Only 36% of the inclusive films passed the Vito Russo test.
Read more from GLAAD here, and join me in a long, exasperated sigh.