Current Events > GLAAD: there is huge progress in LGBT representation in film

(+) Yeah! (+)

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/record-year-lgbtq-representation-film-gay-white-men-n1234054

But there is still a long way to go. Gay men, especially white gay men, are the most represented. Lesbians have barely have any representation. Trans people have zero representation.

https://i.imgur.com/1hGa3EN.giF

I mean you can see it plainly.
Still kinda funny that Moonlight is the closest representation I had and that was years ago.

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Extreme_light posted...

Moonlight

Really good movie

There's been multiple movies with trans characters in them every year for most of the last decade. What do they mean by "zero representation"?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transgender_characters_in_film_and_television

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s0nicfan posted...

There's been multiple movies with trans characters in them every year for most of the last decade. What do they mean by "zero representation"?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transgender_characters_in_film_and_television

I think they are referring to the year 2019/2020.

Not really, there's been a big push for more representation for LGBT+ in the last few years.

There's still a ways to go, but its good to acknowledge that we've come quite a bit from where we started (or at least since the Hayes code)

According to this video from a few years ago it wasn't as big a deal if you go really far back in film history, but then the Hayes code screwed everything up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeDhMKd83r4

Is there even a particular endpoint to this? I really dislike the idea of quotas when it comes to this stuff. Fostering an environment in which they feel welcomed to act and people can feel free to pitch stories involving them is more important than some particular percentage.

s0nicfan posted...

There's been multiple movies with trans characters in them every year for most of the last decade. What do they mean by "zero representation"?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transgender_characters_in_film_and_television

The article/report seems to be looking at major Hollywood studios within the past years.

But the last two movies according to this list are a movie that haven't been distributed yet and a special of an old cartoon. That's some solid representation right there.

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They can't have lesbians in movies because "girl on girl is hot" and anything men find attractive contributes to rape culture.

:v

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nemu posted...

Is there even a particular endpoint to this? I really dislike the idea of quotas when it comes to this stuff. Fostering an environment in which they feel welcomed to act and people can feel free to pitch stories involving them is more important than some particular percentage.

These kind of things are a little awkward to have a specific endpoint since it's end goal is a societal change that is more accepting to LGBT people. So basically it is the first idea.

An example would be whatever the big movie is having the obligatory love story be between two men (or two women) and nobody particularly caring that its two men (or women). If this movie can come out without 1/2 the country throwing a hissyfit over "the SJWs are ruining America with their gay movie characters!"

What percentage of the film industry should be geared towards LGBT for it to be deemed an appropriate amount?

Is this the same as hr hiring specific numbers of different race/genders for equality instead of picking the best candidates for the job?

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