LGBTQ+ Representation in Films The Highest in 11 Years — Report

LGBTQ News

2023-09-26
09:15

LGBTQ+ representation reached its highest in 11 years in 2022 after the advocacy group GLAAD looked into and analyzed a number of films and assessed how they represented the LGBTQ+ community.

GLAAD is an American non-profit non-governmental media monitoring and LGBTQ advocacy organization, and annually, they conduct the Studio Responsibility Index (SRI), a research that sees how queer representation is developing over the years.

For 2022, GLAAD looked into 350 films released by ten major film distributors and showed that 100 films — around 28.5 percent — had at least one LGBTQ+ character.

Other Statistics for this report also showed new record highs.

GLAAD identified 292 LGBTQ+ characters, 117 of which, or 40% were characters of color — a slight increase from last year. Of the total as well, 163 were men, 119 were women, and 10 were nonbinary, the highest found in a single year. Of the women characters, seven were transgender, while it’s six for the men characters.

Additionally, 11 characters, or 4% were with a disability, however, only one was with HIV. While this is also a record high, it still is an underrepresentation of the actual number of queer people with disabilities.

Among the ten film distributors, three received a “Good” rating: A24 (5 out of 14), NBCUniversal (9 out of 37), and Walt Disney (24 out of 59). Amazon Studios (12 out of 35), Netflix (24 out of 107), and Paramount Global (7 out of 24) received “Fair,” Apple TV+ (2 out of 11) received “Poor,” Sony (8 out of 38) and Warner Bros. Discovery (8 out of 19) received “Insufficient,” and Lionsgate (1 out of 6) received “Failing.”

GLAAD has been doing the SRI since 2013, and their 2023 report is the first for their second decade.

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