Posted on 04/16/2015 10:16:59 AM PDT by wagglebee
April 16, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) -- A gay advocacy group has released a report showing that the number of Hollywood films featuring homosexual behavior has risen to an all-time high, with nearly 16 percent of films released in 2014 featuring at least one homosexual, lesbian, or bisexual character. But the activists said they still aren’t satisfied, citing a lack of leading roles for homosexuals, insufficient racial diversity among gay characters, and occasionally less-than-positive portrayals of the homosexual lifestyle by some filmmakers.
To produce its 2015 “Studio Responsibility Index,” homosexual advocacy group GLAAD analyzed the film releases of seven major film studios and their affiliates and found that out of 161 movies released in 2014, 25 featured characters with non-traditional sexual preferences such as homosexuality or bisexuality – a total of 15.5 percent. The major film studios were more likely to feature gay characters – nearly 18 percent of their films did so, compared to just 11 percent of those released by their smaller, “indie”-style affiliates.
Considering a recent Gallup poll found that only 3.4 percent of the U.S. population identifies as homosexual, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, the number of films featuring homosexual characters would seem to be inordinately large.
But GLAAD strongly disagrees. According to the organization’s CEO, Sarah Kate Ellis, Hollywood isn’t doing enough to promote acceptance of alternative sexualities at the movie theater. She’d rather see film studios follow the model of network and cable television and streaming video services, which have become notorious for pushing the envelope with graphic depictions of all kinds of sex acts, whether between heterosexual or same-sex couples.
“As television and streaming services continue to produce a remarkable breadth of diverse LGBT representations, we still struggle to find depictions anywhere near as authentic or meaningful in mainstream Hollywood film,” Ellis said in a statement. “The industry continues to look increasingly out of touch by comparison, and still doesn’t represent the full diversity of the American cultural fabric.”
Ellis complained that the majority of gays featured in films were white and male, and said she would like to see more lesbian, bisexual and transgender characters alongside gays of all races. She also lamented the lack of gay characters in leading film roles, especially in blockbuster action and science fiction offerings, and expressed disappointment that the homosexual references in children’s films like “How to Train Your Dragon 2” and “Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb” were too subtle to be obvious to most young viewers.
Overall, GLAAD ranked the studios badly when it comes to promoting homosexual acceptance. No studios received the organization’s top rating of “excellent,” and only one studio received a “good” rating. That was Warner Bros., which GLAAD praised for its release of “Tammy,” a comedy about a troubled family in which a pair of “married” lesbians are portrayed as the only emotionally stable people in the film. But GLAAD simultaneously criticized the studio for its release of “Get Hard,” a raunchy Will Ferrell/Kevin Hart project in which Ferrell’s character enlists the help of Hart in order to avoid prison rape. Variety magazine suggested in one review of the film that Ferrell’s character’s obvious discomfort with the idea of participating in sex acts with another man “will feel homophobic to some viewers.”
“[Warner Bros.’] glaring lack of consistency seems to be common amongst almost every major film studio,” Ellis said, and called for “greater oversight” in how films represent homosexuals.
Ellis urged all seven studios to continue increasing the number and profile of positive portrayals of homosexuals at American cinemas in order to change the “hearts and minds” of those who still oppose homosexual behavior.
“Only when they make those changes and catch up to other, more consistently inclusive media portrayals will we be able to say that America’s film industry is a full partner in accelerating acceptance,” Ellis said.
“Studies have repeatedly shown that in absence of someone knowing an LGBT person in real life, programs and films with LGBT characters can help foster understanding and acceptance,” Ellis continued. “[D]espite all the legislative and policy victories the LGBT community has experienced in recent years, there are still many parts of this country and others where we are not accepted. The struggle must extend from the ballot box, the legislative chamber, and the courtroom directly to the hearts and minds of those who still harbor anti-LGBT prejudice.”
“It’s precisely those hearts and minds that popular media like film has a unique power to touch,” Ellis said.
perhaps more graphic images of a man poking his winkie in another man’s bum will improve the the number of leading male roles in blockbuster movies that the movie going public will flock to see...
Thanks I have Netflix and love it. It has actually saved me money by not having all the other channels cable makes you pay for.\\
I hope they do bring it back as that was a great show. I’m only watching Vikings right now and would love to see Longmire return and it is a show I can watch with the family with homosexual agenda or making out for 5 minutes in it.
I’m past the point of caring what they call me and they won’t shut me up either about their sham marriage or their agenda.
I wish that were possible, as the images would cost Hollywood a fortune.
Happened to Criminal minds too.
Shows which promote that crap are put on the banned list and I don’t need to see them again
Corey Feldman stated that all of Hollywood is filled with pederasts and pedophiles.....they need to get children young so they can warp their desires and flip Good and Evil and groom them into a sex slave.
The Formative Years are crucial and Innocence is essential for normal sexual identity formation. The Cultural Marxists knew to sexualize children (Sex Ed was created by Lukacs/Adorno, etc).......will destroy and warp sexual development in children and destroy Virtue. It will destroy sexual ethics and desacralize sex and Life and make it meaningless and irrational.
Children can easily be warped -—embedded with irrational, unnatural desires with TV promoting evil and vice 24/7 (which is what it mostly does since 1970s). TV is to help public schools to normalize dependent, puerile, immature behaviors for the tribal mindset that they need for “happy slavery”....just addicts and immoral people.
Autonomy and Individualism and Maturity takes Virtue and thinking outside the box.-—not being addicted to pop culture and base emotions. Individualism (Autonomy) has to be destroyed for the Collective-—group think only. (Pure emotional “thinking” so no minds like our Founders and Adam Smith are possible).
I think Hollywood is (in its dumbness) to an extent simply reflecting what it lives and knows. Years ago I was immersed in the live theatre world, and probably half my friends were homosexual. They were drawn to the theater because they felt at home there with all the other gay people (plus a real interest in theater). However, now I’m no longer in the theater, and my friends are pretty much average people in the community . . . and you know what? I know *one* homosexual couple here (and don’t even know them well; I just met them once). No one else. The only homosexuals I still know are only on Facebook, and they’re my old friends from college. So Hollywood looks around and sees gays everywhere, and seeks to represent that on the screen. The rest of us see them only occasionally (which makes sense, since they’re actually only 1% or so of the population). Hollywood is successfully skewing the view of the world toward *their* version of reality.
Local reports say “Longmire” is again being filmed in NM - script says Wyoming but honest, they film here. For Netflix.
https://www.google.com/#q=longmire+filming+in+nm
Having worked in Hollywood, I shudder to think how many homos molested young actors.
8 times their representation in society, but it’s not enough? More proof, if it were needed, of how out of touch they are.
Brillaint , good news on a cloudy bad day.
We were fans of some of the programs on HGTV, but haven’t been watching as much lately because of the constant commercials for Ellen’s new show.
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There are a few people I went to high school and college with who have since become homosexuals, but I don't know any in everyday life.
It could be. I could see it going either way. Just think that it's the more relevant comparison, whichever way it goes.
:)
Not overrepresente for me. Once I detect that there’s a gay in the script for no other reason then being gay, it’s the off switch.
I used to be on their side.
But no more.
Get a room, and STFU, gays.
We were fans of some of the programs on HGTV...”
We used to watch HGTV before we pulled the plug on cable and went to an antenna. Loved the real estate programs on HGTV until it got to the place where most of the “couples” seeking homes were two guys. Just ruined a great program. We watch ION a lot, and enjoy Blue Bloods. My grandson discovered a black-and-white channel last week that had all the old Murder She Wrote and Sherlock Holmes stories and he had become an avid fan of both.
Sounds like the producers want to MAKE SOME MONEY. I haven’t been to a theater since Hunchback Mountain came out.
My wife and I good collection of shows on DVD’s such as MacGyver,Emergency!,Combat!,Andy Griffith Show,Gunsmoke,the Rifleman,F Troop,etc.,etc. I call our collection the WhatWEWanttoWatch Channel. I’m sick of overpriced garbage that the cable networks want us to watch. My wife still watches a few cable shows. Me,I’m fed up with it.
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