GLAAD has launched its 2024 field workplace report card, and Hollywood’s prime 10 distributors largely received “poor” or “inadequate” marks as general illustration for LGBTQ characters and inclusion is tilting downwards.
The thirteenth annual version of GLAAD’s Studio Duty Index discovered the variety of inclusive movies had fallen for the second 12 months operating. The LGBTQ advocacy group discovered 59 movies out of 250 contained an LGBTQ character (or 23.6 %) in 2024.
That marked a lower from 70 out of 256 movies (or 27.3 %) for 2023 and from a three-year excessive of 100 movies out of 350 (or 28.5 %) being inclusive in 2022. “In a time when the lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) neighborhood faces unchecked dangerous and false rhetoric in information media and are handled as a wedge situation by politicians, these tales are important,” GLAAD argued within the examine.
The newest SRI report tracked movies launched within the 2024 calendar 12 months by A24, Amazon, Apple TV+, Lionsgate, NBCUniversal, Netflix, Paramount World, Sony Footage Leisure, The Walt Disney Firm and Warner Bros. Discovery. That features subsidiary distribution labels and majority-owned streaming providers.
Prime of the category for 2024 was A24, which received a “good” grade as 9 of its 16 movies final 12 months, or 56 %, had been judged LGBTQ inclusive. These field workplace standouts included the romantic thriller Love Lies Bleeding; Problemista, a surrealist comedy; and Queer, about an American ex-pat dwelling in an LGBTQ neighborhood in Mexico Metropolis.
Amazon and NBCUniversal received “truthful” rankings, whereas Warner Bros. Discovery, Apple TV+, Sony and Paramount World acquired “inadequate” marks. Netflix, Lionsgate and The Walt Disney Firm all scored “poor” grades.
Stand-out movies tracked within the SRI report past the A24 titles embody Drive-Away Dolls (NBCUniversal), Imply Ladies (Paramount Footage) and My Previous Ass (Amazon). Total, Hollywood movies had fewer LGBTQ characters final 12 months, in comparison with earlier years, and most had been homosexual and lesbian roles, the examine discovered.
And solely two of the 59 movies tracked in 2024 had transgender roles — Common’s Monkey Man, the place Indian actor Vipin Sharma performed Alpha, the chief of a trans neighborhood recognized in India as hijras, and Netflix’s Emilia Pérez, which co-starred the Oscar-nominated Karla Sofía Gascón.
GLAAD has labored for 4 many years to safe truthful, correct and various illustration of the LGBTQ neighborhood within the media and leisure industries and to advocate for LGBTQ equality. The GLAAD report mentioned main studios and streamers had been lacking a chance to achieve rising LGBTQ audiences domestically and abroad.
“It’s clear that studios have to range their slates with a wide range of story varieties at staggered budgets to make sure stability and in the end progress,” the examine concluded.