{"id":2503,"date":"2016-05-08T08:15:25","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T13:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2503"},"modified":"2016-05-08T08:16:09","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T13:16:09","slug":"glaad-diversity-in-glbt-film-characters-down-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2503","title":{"rendered":"GLAAD: Diversity in GLBT film characters down in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This week, GLAAD released its annual report on the state of GLBT representation in films produced by the major studios in Hollywood. Of 126 major releases, 17.5% had a character that identified as GLBT. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2016\/05\/02\/lgbt-diversity-in-film-has-dropped-study-finds\/\">PinkNews<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>However, when it came to racial diversity of these characters there was a noticeable drop. The study found that of the 22 films featuring LGBT characters, only 25.5% were not white. This compared to 32.1% last year.<\/p>\n<p>72.3% of characters were white, 10.6% were Latino, 8.5% were black and 6.4% were Asian.?[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Of the major studios that included LGBT characters, Lionsgate, led the way with eight out of 24 films (33%) being LGBT-inclusive. Warner Brothers followed with five of 25 films (20%), Universal had four of 21 films (19%), and Sony with 3 of 16 films (19%).<\/p>\n<p>Two of Fox?s 17 films were inclusive (12%), but neither Disney nor Paramount included any LGBT content in their 2015 slates of 11 and 12 films respectively.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman This week, GLAAD released its annual report on the state of GLBT representation in films produced by the major studios in Hollywood. Of 126 major releases, 17.5% had a character that identified as GLBT. Via PinkNews: However, when it came to racial diversity of these characters there was a noticeable drop. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57],"tags":[731,729,337,239,389,730],"class_list":["post-2503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-media-of-note","tag-731","tag-disney","tag-glaad","tag-glbt-film","tag-glbt-representation","tag-paramount"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}