Browsing: Studio Responsibility Index

Moonlight, from the independent studio A24, made history this year as the first film led by a lesbian, gay, bisexual,…

The GLAAD Studio Responsibility Index (SRI) maps the quantity, quality and diversity of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people in films released by the seven major motion picture studios during the 2016 calendar year. GLAAD researched films released by 20th Century Fox, Lionsgate Entertainment, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures, Walt Disney Studios and Warner Brothers, as well as films released by four subsidiaries of these major studios. The report is intended to serve as a road map toward increasing fair, accurate and inclusive LGBTQ representation in film.

For this report, GLAAD focused its quantitative analysis on the seven film studios that had the highest theatrical grosses from…

GLAAD’s Entertainment Media Team not only works with entertainment-related media platforms to encourage fair, accurate, and inclusive representation of LGBT…

FILM MOVEMENTFilm Movement was launched in 2002 as a distributor for exceptional independent and foreign films. The studio previously released…

More films need to include substantive and nuanced LGBT characters which pass the Vito Russo Test. However, passing the test…

Taking inspiration from the “Bechdel Test,” which examines the way female characters are portrayed and situated within a narrative, GLAAD…

Of the 126 releases GLAAD counted from the major studios in 2015, 22 (17.5%) contained characters identified as lesbian, gay,…