Los Angeles, CA - Thursday, J– GLAAD, the world’s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, today released its eighth annual Studio Responsibility Index ( SRI), a report that maps the quantity, quality, and diversity of LGBTQ characters in films released by the eight film studios that had the highest theatrical grosses from films released in the 2019 calendar year and four of their subsidiaries as reported by box office database Box Office Mojo. More than half of all LGBTQ characters receive under three minutes of screen time and transgender characters remain completely absent for the third year in a row
LGBTQ representation in film saw its highest ever recorded year, but racial diversity of LGBTQ characters, as well as the number of queer women characters dropped
Of the 8 major film studios tracked, all studios receive grade of “Insufficient” representation or worse
