gaywrites: “ 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...

gaywrites:

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. 

(via slyrider)