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Movies Lower Quality of Gay Characters
Posted by Ron
Thursday, July 24th 2014 @ 09:52:18 AM EST

Huffington Post: Seventeen major Hollywood movies may have included characters that identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) last year, but there's still work to be done in terms of representing the community fairly and equally, a new report has found.

With many of those 17 films limiting LGBT characters to minor roles or cameos, GLAAD's 2014 Studio Responsibility Index also found that many of these portrayals were "outright defamatory" representations, pointing to movies like "Pain And Gain" and "Riddick," officials said.

The 17 films represented 16.7 percent out of 102 major Hollywood films released over the course of 2013. According to GLAAD's statistics, 83.3 percent of those 102 movies did not feature any LGBT characters.

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