Search Results: transgender people (1585)

[…] real world violence: from extremists showing up at drag shows to vandalism at LGBTQ community centers to bomb threats being called into children’s hospitals that care for transgender youth. This new partnership will help GLAAD and the entire LGBTQ movement in identifying and reporting the growing rates of anti-LGBTQ violence before it happens.”  ADL […]

[…] inclusive films, but it includes a few standouts in its repertoire. Myra Breckinridge (1970) and The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) contain some of the earliest significant transgender characters, though both depictions are arguably more sensationalized than truthful. In 1982 the studio released the drama Making Love, which was one of the first (and […]

[…] even more moments meant to make the audience laugh or squirm. The homophobic humor in the first film was widely criticized, while the second also contained a transgender character meant to gross out the audience. Part three improves over the first two, but Chow remains a problematic character who at one point says to […]

[…] of his evil scheme to publicly discredit the kindly boxtrolls, though it always appeared to be a means to an end rather than an indication of a transgender identity on his part.  Still, Madame Frou Frou also clearly invoked the image of an insane, murderous cross-dresser, which has been a long-running and unfortunate Hollywood […]

[…] Star Wars, and Independence Day. In terms of LGBTQ representation, Fox has had its ups and downs, but it did introduce two of the earliest depictions of transgender characters in the films Myra Breckinridge (1970) and The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). Other LGBTQ-inclusive films from Fox include Making Love (1982), still one of […]

[…] from a first date. While traveling, they stay with Queen’s Uncle Earl, who lives with several women, including Goddess, played by Indya Moore, an actor who is transgender and non-binary. Because the content of the film on-screen does not make any assertions regarding Goddess’ gender identity, GLAAD did not count the character as transgender […]

[…] group of trans actors confront the legacy of trans people forced to choose between honesty and access to gender affirming care, executive produced by GLAAD’s Director of Transgender Representation, Alex Schmider. They also distributed queer director Saul William’s GLAAD Media Award-nominated film Neptune Frost, a sci-fi social justice musical following the relationship between the […]

[…] LGBTQ  character. Additionally the index found that half of LGBTQ characters had just under five minutes of screen time While the index showed growth in representation of transgender characters, it also found that LGBTQ characters of color and people living with HIV still remain underrepresented See GLAAD’s 2023 Studio Responsibility Index here. See the […]