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For the first time since GLAAD began this report, comedy is no longer the genre with the most LGBTQ-inclusive films from major studios.There were zero Asian/Pacific Islander LGBTQ characters or any other race/ethnicity. Of the 28 LGBTQ characters counted, 12 were white (43 percent), eight were Black/African American (28.5 percent), and eight were Latinx (28.5 percent). In 2017, 57 percent of LGBTQ characters were people of color, compared to 20 percent in films released in 2016 and 25.5 percent in 2015. The racial diversity of LGBTQ characters actually saw a welcome increase in films tracked in 2016 after two straight years of dramatic drops.There were no transgender or non-binary characters counted in mainstream releases this year. Men again outnumber women characters by more than two to one, there were 20 men and eight women, compared to 47 men and 22 women in 2016’s major studio releases. It is important to note that 14 of the characters counted in 2016 were part of a single musical number in Universal Pictures’ PopStar: Never Stop Never Stopping, which misleadingly inflated the numbers that year. GLAAD tallied 28 total LGBTQ characters among all mainstream releases in 2017, down from 70 in 2016 and 47 in 2015.There were zero transgender-inclusive films from the major studios in 2017. There was a small increase in bisexual representation: 14 percent (two) of major studios’ LGBTQ-inclusive films counted bi characters as compared to 13 percent in the previous year’s report. Lesbian representation remained steady, up one point to 36 percent (five) of inclusive films including lesbian characters. This is a drop of 19 percentage points from the previous report (83 percent of inclusive films).
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Gay men remain the most represented in film by far with 64 percent (nine) of the inclusive films featuring gay male characters.While part of this drop may be due to increased rigorous methodology it was also an overall bleak year for inclusion in major studio film. This is a significant decrease of 5.6 percentage points and down nine films from the previous year’s 18.4 percent (23 of 125 films). Of the 109 film releases GLAAD counted from the major studios in 2017, 14 (12.8 percent) contained characters identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer.