The 2020 'Studio Responsibility Index' revealed an absence of transgender lives on the big screen and declining representation of queer people of color.
. But a new survey finds that a lot more work needs to be done before on-screen parity can be achieved.,” which examined 118 movies released by eight major studios, including The Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures and Warner Bros. last year.
Of the surveyed films, 22 ― or 18.6% ― featured LGBTQ characters, a slight increase from 2018 and the highest figure in the eight-year history of the report. Still, GLAAD executives expressed concern over two key findings. For the third year in a row, transgender characters were completely absent from all 118 films. And out of the LGBTQ characters presented, 34% were people of color, down from 42% in 2018 and 57% in 2017.
“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,” GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis said in an email.
The racial diversity of LGBTQ characters in films from major studios saw another significant decrease this year, with only 34 percent of LGBTQ characters being people of color, compared to 42 percent in 2018.
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