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Posted on 05/07/2016 9:52:45 AM PDT by reaganaut1
The number of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender characters in films released by the seven major Hollywood studios held steady in 2015, but many were included only to be the butt of a joke and an overwhelming majority of them were white or male, according to a new report by GLAAD, formerly known as the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.
While the overall percentage of such characters in films stayed the same, the advocacy group said in its fourth annual report that a closer look at the data revealed 2015 to have been a less inclusive year on the big screen by almost every other measure.
The number of female characters dropped while the number of males characters rose, it said, and the amount of racial diversity among L.G.B.T. characters fell sharply after making improvements the year before.
Those findings come amid criticism aimed at Hollywood over the lack of racial diversity in film that reached a boiling point earlier this year when no people of color were nominated in the acting categories of the Academy Awards for the second year in a row, spawning the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite.
“The overwhelming majority of L.G.B.T. characters that do make it to the big screen continue to lack substance and purpose,” Sarah Kate Ellis, the group’s president and C.E.O., said in a statement that accompanied the report’s release. Too often, she said, the characters “are included as the setup of a punch line or exist as an isolated token character who never gets the chance to bloom into a fully formed personality.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Sounds like the gay people I have met in real life - isolated jokes with no real personality.
These people (apparently) are getting insufficient amounts of positive media exposure. Who knew?
It will be the final self take down of Hollywood if they submit to this. For that reason, I hope they do.
They are complaining that blacks (pardon, people of color) make up only 21% of the film characters. Well, they make up only about 13% of the populace so at 21% of the film universe they are over-represented. Gays make up about a fraction of one percent of the overall populace, so if they appear in film at all they are over-represented.
Having written and published several novels I can tell you how difficult it is to have a fully-fleshed character unless that character is the main one. All supporting characters have so little story time that they, of necessity, must be caricatures. To give them more story time simply because they are gay distorts and damages the story you are trying to tell. Unless your story is something like “Priciolla, queen of the desert,” you simply don’t have the story time to throw in a fully formed gay character.
There is another complaint that they are used to set up a joke. Well, if they act like normal people, how do you know they are supposed to be gay? Say you have a serious police detective with a serious murder to solve. The story concentrates on the murder, not a subplot about how he has the hots for his partner and the trouble that brews. Unless the author can work in a subplot that blends and resolves with the main plot it will seem a polemic and people will tune out.
This article is a ridiculous whine.
Considering that the entire GLBT community makes up less than 4% of the U.S. population, they are hugely overrepresented in movies and TV, but the news media will never mention it.
There is no evidence that “diversity” has ever had a positive contribution to America.,P>
If diversity was good, then the government wouldn’t have to force it upon people.
Here’s an idea, add them to the movies, then kill them off. Most movies have a lot of cannon fodder, which is as substantive as any other role. Aside from that, let them pound sand, I want my normal movie about normal people to be by normal people. I and my family will not be watching a moving about homosexuals, bisexuals, and transgenders.
.... Other than that .... in real life you would not know which people were gay, lesbian, or transexuals unless they were really flamboyant stereotypes.
..... So .... I guess the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender community in Hollywood is demanding that their be more Stereotypical characters in shows ... which in the past has been totally frowned upon because in the world of PC it is a cardinal sin to portray steroetypes!
All part of the agenda.
The plot of a 30 minute sitcom is easier to fit characters like this into.
If you had to go into something long winded, a story like that of Alan Turing might seem to be the thing to do, one in which the character has a significant specialty aside from his or her sex life, which even occupies more of his or her life than sex does.
But generally normal people would get tired of seeing “gay romances” play out in depth. Sorry this ain’t our cup of tea.
...but many were included only to be the butt of a joke and an overwhelming majority of them were white or male....
Political correctness says the they should be labeled “ the object “ of ajoke
Sure, great idea. Spend gazillions of dollars featuring broken, demented individuals, have absolutely nobody watch them except for the less than 2% of deviants that want to, then go broke.
Winning formula for me!
Now, a story of one winning a struggle against his or her vice might do well with the public, but oh my the opprobrium it would get from Hollywood!
“Sorry this ain’t our cup of tea.”
I absolutely loved the old Doctor Who. I saw a new version and Doctor Who started making out with another man. There appeared to be nothing in the plot necessitating this. It was gratuitous gay agenda politics. I never watched another episode. Actually, I only made it about 45 seconds past that point in that episode.
That’s another risk. Get a rapport going then spring a weird side on people and they say no thanks, what kind of weirdness are we going to be viewing from here?
The CW show 100 recently killed off a major character who was a lesbian (the actress had a better role on another show). The LGBT crowd went nuts.
This just isn’t true; every bad guy that got killed in Deadpool? Gay.
( Let’s count them, shall we?)
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