GLAAD's Studio Responsibility Index also praised movies like 'Love, Simon' but criticized the lack of trans characters in any major Hollywood release last year.
Disney is riding high on the success of Avengers: Endgame, but the studio has been called out by GLAAD for the lack of LGBTQ characters in its films last year.
In 2017, Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn came under fire for saying,"There are probably gay characters in the Marvel universe, we just don’t know who they are yet.” Since then, Marvel Studio heads have repeatedly promised that more diverse representations are coming: “You’re gonna see even more new faces—and faces from all different background, all ages, all ethnicities, LGBTQ, people who are differently abled,” casting director Sarah Halley Finn told Vulture in April.
"The repeated trope in media of women only sleeping with other women to get something they want or need—thus directly linking their queer relationship with a negative behavior—is one audiences have seen too many times." But while overall representation increased, racial diversity was lacking—as was screen time. Of the 45 LGBTQ characters counted this year, 26 had under three minutes of screen time. And, for the second year in a row, not a single film released by a major studio last year featured a transgender character. That's compared to television, where shows like Pose and Supergirl are bringing trans representation to the fore.
"Love, Simon broke new ground as the first major studio release to focus on a gay teenage romance," Megan Townsend, GLAAD's Director of Entertainment Research and the author of the report, told Newsweek."But it also played in thousands of theaters, including in my tiny hometown of Swartz Creek, Michigan, where I wasn’t able to see many queer films growing up."
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