How lgbtq actors are treated in hollywood
Hollywood trans roles under fire - again
Trans filmmaker and activist Kate Adair wrote: "It's a not surprise that this is still happening, even though it shouldn't be happening.
"We've had this argument come up moment and time again."
Speaking specifically about Rodriguez's role as a hit man who has been forced to undergo gender reassignment surgery, Adair criticised the exploit of GRS as a plot device. For some transitioned individuals, the operation is considered life-saving. Furthermore, not all undergo a medical procedure, external.
"Without an understanding of what it actually means to be trans, they're just using it as a device to tell a story, whatever that story is," she said.
"With Matt Bomer, people are going to see him as a man in a dress, so that's what a cisgender audience are going to believe trans women are.
"It reflects how it is in general society. They still have this connection that because I used to introduce as male, I must still be a man playing dress up.
"What I ideally would appreciate to see is that we shift past the stories of trans people being people that are transitioning, or people that are sex
LGBTQ Representation in Film Drops to Three-Year Low, Says GLAAD Report
GLAAD has released its 2024 box office report card, and Hollywood’s top 10 distributors mostly got “poor” or “insufficient” marks as overall inclusion for LGBTQ characters and inclusion is tilting downwards.
The 13th annual edition of GLAAD’s Studio Responsibility Index found the number of inclusive films had fallen for the second year running. The LGBTQ advocacy organization found 59 films out of 250 contained an LGBTQ nature (or 23.6 percent) in 2024.
That marked a decrease from 70 out of 256 films (or 27.3 percent) for 2023 and from a three-year high of 100 films out of 350 (or 28.5 percent) creature inclusive in 2022. “In a time when the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and queer (LGBTQ) collective faces unchecked harmful and false rhetoric in news media and are treated as a wedge issue by politicians, these stories are vital,” GLAAD argued in the study.
The latest SRI inform tracked films released in the 2024 calendar year by A24, Amazon, Apple TV+, Lionsgate, NBCUniversal, Netflix, Paramount Global, Sony Pictures Business, Th
In the 1981 novel, “The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies,” film historian Vito Russo traces the history of queer representation in the movies. The book was adapted into a documentary of the identical name in 1995 by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman and was shown extensively on HBO.
In 1894, a British inventor by the name of William Dickson, who was an employee of Thomas Edison, made a film with live sound that is said to be the first known film. In the 17 seconds that were set up and restored, the film shows two men dancing while Dickson plays the violin in the background. This clip has been hailed as the first gay film by Russo in his book and in the documentary, though there is no evidence to recommend that the men were gay or that it was Dickson’s intention to portray them that way. However, it is the first known example of two men in an intimate accept and thus was worth citing.
The 1922 silent film Manslaughter, directed by Cecil B. deMille, is said to own the first lgbtq+ kiss between women – Lydia, a society girl played by Leatrice Pleasure kisses another lady in a party scene.
Wings, director William A. Wellman’s 1927 silent film, features the first lgbtq+ kiss be
As Hollywood continues to cast straight actors in LGBTQ roles, the LGBTQ society is paying the price
When I saw "The Prom" on Broadway a not many years ago, I was instantly enamored with the musical's energy, comedy, and celebration of the LGBTQ community.
So when the production version dropped on Netflix in December 2020, I watched it immediately. I was glad to observe it followed the musical's original plot about four Broadway stars who initiative to a small town to help a sapphic student bring her girlfriend to prom. But there was one aspect I could not get past: James Corden.
Corden, a unbent man, played Barry Glickman, the most flamboyant ethics in the ensemble. From the moment he first stepped into frame, the caricature was apparent. The performance was so stereotypical that, to me, it was borderline homophobic. In one scene, his personality reveals he had to leave his childhood before coming out as queer . It irked me to know Corden had no real-life experience to tug from at that moment.
Many media outlets and people on social media panned the performance and called it offensive and hurtful.
Imagine my surprise when Corden wasn't admonished in any real way and was, in
Billy Eichner: Hollywood is 'so hypocritical,' still denies LGBTQ actors opportunities
Billy Eichner is opening up about his experience as an openly gay actor in Hollywood.
The "Lion King" star, 41, spoke to Deadline about LGBTQ representation in movie and television as successfully as the career challenges actors can face when they appear out of the closet.
"What’s happened is that, when someone comes out of the closet, we rejoice them," Eichner said in the article, published Tuesday. "We applaud them. We set them on the cover of magazines. We tell, thank you for living your truth, and appreciate you for being heroic , and you’re such a role model for our gay kids. And then instantly, that actor gets taken off so many casting lists in the business."
According to GLAAD's annual Studio Responsibility Index that studied 118 films released in 2019 from the eight largest studios, 22 (18.6%) included characters who were LGBTQ, which is a slight increase over the previous year's describe (18.2%, 20 out of 110 films).
But even though there are more LGBTQ characters on screen, Eichner says "we're often used in such limited ways." Of the 22 films counted in GLAAD's survey, only nine included an LGBT