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[…] featured an interview with out actor Nathan Lane. The company also released the comedy Adult World about a failed poet working at an adult bookstore with a transgender woman, and the dramedy Last Weekend, which followed a dysfunctional family spending one last weekend at their vacation home. Magnolia Pictures Magnolia Pictures was formed in […]

[…] Lutheran Church in America, and the Presbyterian Church (USA) have all adopted policies of LGBT inclusion. Their leaders are often vocal supporters of marriage equality, employment non-discrimination, transgender inclusion, and other LGBT issues. Other denominations are home to robust debate about LGBT issues and equality. Others denominations continue to openly debate issues of LGBT inclusion, […]

Four years ago, GLAAD launched the Studio Responsibility Index (SRI) to map the quantity and quality of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in films released by the major motion picture studios. Today, we still struggle to find any marked improvement in the representation of LGBT lives on the silver screen. An unfortunate […]

Of the 126 releases GLAAD counted from the major studios in 2015, 22 (17.5%) contained characters identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. This is no change from the 17.5% (20 of 114) of films from the same studios we found to be inclusive in 2014. Again, the overwhelming majority of inclusive films (77%) […]

[…] reach in the future. To pass the Vito Russo Test, the following must be true: The film contains a character that is identifiably lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgender. That character must not be solely or predominantly defined by their sexual orientation or gender identity (i.e. they are comprised of the same sort of unique […]

Moonlight, from the independent studio A24, made history this year as the first film led by a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ) character to win the Oscar for Best Picture. Meanwhile, nearly half of the inclusive films released by the seven major studios included less than one minute of screen time for […]

[…] reach in the future. To pass the Vito Russo Test, the following must be true: The film contains a character that is identifiably lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgender. That character must not be solely or predominantly defined by their sexual orientation or gender identity (i.e. they are comprised of the same sort of unique […]

[…] All We Had, the story of a struggling mother and daughter who settle in a small town. The film co-starred trans actor Eve Lindley as Pam, a transgender waitress with big dreams who becomes the best friend of the young girl while dealing with transphobia in rural America. Gravitas also distributed 4th Man Out, […]