After reaching a file excessive in 2022, LGBTQ illustration continues to say no in films.
On Wednesday, GLAAD launched the thirteenth version of its Studio Accountability Index (SRI), which discovered that LGBTQ-inclusive movies dropped to 23.6% of releases from 10 high studio distributors in the course of the 2024 calendar yr, down from 27.3% in 2023 and 28.5% in 2022.
The SRI additionally discovered that, solely two movies (lower than 1%) featured transgender characters; 37% of LGBTQ characters had lower than one minute of display screen time; solely 27% had greater than 10 minutes of display screen time, down from 38% final yr; LGBTQ characters of shade made up the bottom proportion since 2019 at 36%; and there have been no LGBTQ characters dwelling with HIV in any of the 250 movies tracker.
“This yr’s findings are a wake-up name to the business. At a time when LGBTQ persons are going through unprecedented assaults in politics and information media, movie should be an area for visibility and reality,” stated Sarah Kate Ellis, GLAAD president and CEO. “Illustration isn’t about checking a field — it’s about whose tales get informed, whose lives are valued, and creating worlds that mirror our personal society right this moment. When finished authentically, LGBTQ illustration builds viewers and buzz, whereas humanizing LGBTQ individuals as these in energy are actively working to remove our humanity.”
In the meantime, gender parity was reached amongst LGBTQ characters for the primary time in 5 years, at 50% ladies, 48% males and a couple of% nonbinary; and A24 was the one studio to obtain a “Good” ranking with the best proportion of LGBTQ movies.
Katy M. O’Brian and Kristen Stewart in ‘Love Lies Bleeding’ (2024) (Anna Kooris/A24/Courtesy Everett Assortment)
Anna Kooris/A24/Everett Assortment
releases from A24, Amazon, Apple TV+, Lionsgate, NBCUniversal, Netflix, Paramount World, Sony Footage Leisure, The Walt Disney Firm and Warner Bros. Discovery, in addition to their subsidiaries and streaming providers, movies had been judged based mostly on the fundamental commonplace for significant LGBTQ inclusion, as outlined by GLAAD’s Vito Russo Check, named after a co-founder of the group.
The 2024 titles that handed the Vito Russo Check embody Love Lies Bleeding (A24), Problemista (A24), My Previous Ass (Amazon), Drive-Away Dolls (NBCUniversal), Imply Ladies (Paramount Footage), Fancy Dance (Apple TV+), Good Grief (Netflix), Rez Ball (Netflix), Sweethearts (Warner Bros. Discovery), Housekeeping for Freshmen (NBCUniversal), The Radleys (Lionsgate), Ricky Stanicky (Amazon), Between the Temples (Sony Footage Leisure) and Promenade Dates (The Walt Disney Firm).
Following the Trump administration’s assaults on DEI and up to date try to cancel Delight Month, a number of LGBTQ movies are discovering their methods to the display screen this yr.
