Posted on 04/16/2015 10:16:59 AM PDT by wagglebee
April 16, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) -- A gay advocacy group has released a report showing that the number of Hollywood films featuring homosexual behavior has risen to an all-time high, with nearly 16 percent of films released in 2014 featuring at least one homosexual, lesbian, or bisexual character. But the activists said they still aren’t satisfied, citing a lack of leading roles for homosexuals, insufficient racial diversity among gay characters, and occasionally less-than-positive portrayals of the homosexual lifestyle by some filmmakers.
To produce its 2015 “Studio Responsibility Index,” homosexual advocacy group GLAAD analyzed the film releases of seven major film studios and their affiliates and found that out of 161 movies released in 2014, 25 featured characters with non-traditional sexual preferences such as homosexuality or bisexuality – a total of 15.5 percent. The major film studios were more likely to feature gay characters – nearly 18 percent of their films did so, compared to just 11 percent of those released by their smaller, “indie”-style affiliates.
Considering a recent Gallup poll found that only 3.4 percent of the U.S. population identifies as homosexual, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, the number of films featuring homosexual characters would seem to be inordinately large.
But GLAAD strongly disagrees. According to the organization’s CEO, Sarah Kate Ellis, Hollywood isn’t doing enough to promote acceptance of alternative sexualities at the movie theater. She’d rather see film studios follow the model of network and cable television and streaming video services, which have become notorious for pushing the envelope with graphic depictions of all kinds of sex acts, whether between heterosexual or same-sex couples.
“As television and streaming services continue to produce a remarkable breadth of diverse LGBT representations, we still struggle to find depictions anywhere near as authentic or meaningful in mainstream Hollywood film,” Ellis said in a statement. “The industry continues to look increasingly out of touch by comparison, and still doesn’t represent the full diversity of the American cultural fabric.”
Ellis complained that the majority of gays featured in films were white and male, and said she would like to see more lesbian, bisexual and transgender characters alongside gays of all races. She also lamented the lack of gay characters in leading film roles, especially in blockbuster action and science fiction offerings, and expressed disappointment that the homosexual references in children’s films like “How to Train Your Dragon 2” and “Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb” were too subtle to be obvious to most young viewers.
Overall, GLAAD ranked the studios badly when it comes to promoting homosexual acceptance. No studios received the organization’s top rating of “excellent,” and only one studio received a “good” rating. That was Warner Bros., which GLAAD praised for its release of “Tammy,” a comedy about a troubled family in which a pair of “married” lesbians are portrayed as the only emotionally stable people in the film. But GLAAD simultaneously criticized the studio for its release of “Get Hard,” a raunchy Will Ferrell/Kevin Hart project in which Ferrell’s character enlists the help of Hart in order to avoid prison rape. Variety magazine suggested in one review of the film that Ferrell’s character’s obvious discomfort with the idea of participating in sex acts with another man “will feel homophobic to some viewers.”
“[Warner Bros.’] glaring lack of consistency seems to be common amongst almost every major film studio,” Ellis said, and called for “greater oversight” in how films represent homosexuals.
Ellis urged all seven studios to continue increasing the number and profile of positive portrayals of homosexuals at American cinemas in order to change the “hearts and minds” of those who still oppose homosexual behavior.
“Only when they make those changes and catch up to other, more consistently inclusive media portrayals will we be able to say that America’s film industry is a full partner in accelerating acceptance,” Ellis said.
“Studies have repeatedly shown that in absence of someone knowing an LGBT person in real life, programs and films with LGBT characters can help foster understanding and acceptance,” Ellis continued. “[D]espite all the legislative and policy victories the LGBT community has experienced in recent years, there are still many parts of this country and others where we are not accepted. The struggle must extend from the ballot box, the legislative chamber, and the courtroom directly to the hearts and minds of those who still harbor anti-LGBT prejudice.”
“It’s precisely those hearts and minds that popular media like film has a unique power to touch,” Ellis said.
There shouldn't be ANY references to sex in children's movies.
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My youngest was on Netflix and put an an old show called Andy Griffith show.
He asked if he could watch it and we gave him permission. I had not seen it either.
He liked it and then my 17 year old came in and he sat down and likes it too.
Shame Hollywood can’t make decent shows like that anymore instead of pushing their social homosexual agenda.
Last night my wife saw Criminal minds and turned it off due to it being about homosexuals.
That show is now on the banned list.
Not a SINGLE PERSON in my Entire Extended Family has been or will go to the Movies. Precisely because of this crap
This obsession with sex is evidence of the disturbed mental health of homosexuals, imho. Healthy adults to not want to force sexual content in movies for children.
I worked at Warner Bros. studios in the mid 70’s
Here a fag
there a fag
everywhere a fag fag : )
Probably more than one out of 3 these days.
“Criminal Minds” is not good on many levels, blood and gore just ahead of homosexual agenda.
Well it won’t be on our TV now.
Shows like Longmire were great and they got rid of it for some reason. I have searched the internet and not found the reason unless a freeper knows why they stopped making longmire.
It was neat driving down the road listening to the opening tune (because I was driving), listening to the voices of the kids and then to hear my kids snicker.
Great times.
Yea today is different for kids. I tell my kids how neighborhoods were, how we could play out and be safe. How there was none of this homosexuality and their agenda on half the shows today. How people did speak out and had manners.
Did I read this right? Is GLADD really saying that personal discomfort with participation in same-sex sex acts is homophobic?
People need to understand that for the homosexual agenda there is always the next barrier to breakdown. After gay marriage, they will start pushing polygamy. For them, they will never reach a place where they are satisfied. There will always be one more step to further weaken and destroy basic values.
I use to live in New Orleans, and enjoyed watching NCIS New Orleans because I could recognize some of the city scenes and I liked the actors. Tuesday, I was astonished at the beginning - it involved a car/baby girl kidnapping. The baby girl’s parents were two fathers, a black and white male, called each other “husband”. I immediately turned it off, will probably not ever watch the show again. Sometimes, it is like I am living in a foreign nation when I watch TV. Can you imagine, two sodomites raising a little girl? The sick fool who wrote that script, along with CBS, was trying to cram his perversion down our throat sideways.
I have every episode of those and Jonny Quest on DVD. Great stuff. My kids grew up those, the Flintstones, Gilligan, and Looney Tunes just as did.
That's what they seem to believe.
If a woman is uncomfortable with being raped is she just suffering from a "phobia"?
I read that the same way. So much for being born "heterosexual", huh? I guess GLAAD must think that everyone's a repressed homosexual whether they choose to acknowledge it or not.
“Considering a recent Gallup poll found that only 3.4 percent of the U.S. population identifies as homosexual, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, the number of films featuring homosexual characters would seem to be inordinately large.”
Isn’t that a bit of an apples-to-oranges comparison? Wouldn’t a more meaningful comparison be comparing the percentage of homosexual characters in movies (rather than the percentage of movies with at least one homosexual character) to the population ?
We were so upset and disappointed on Tuesday night with NCIS:New Orleans. All about a homosexual couple. Flipped it off and fired off a letter to the network. Tired of it all.
Ratings. There was talk of bringing to Netflix, for a 10 episode mini-season to finish the series, but not sure if they did that or not - since I don’t have Netflix.
http://www.cinemablend.com/television/Longmire-Coming-Netflix-Get-Details-Here-68499.html
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