Just days before the Oscars, the study produced by the Media, Diversity and Social Change Initiative at the University of Southern California found that across ten major outlets, everyone of them failed to be diverse.
“We don’t have a diversity problem. We have an inclusion crisis,” said Professor Stacy L. Smith – one of the reports authors.
The study examined 109 films and 305 first run TV shows between 2014 and 2015 and found that after analysing more than 11,000 speaking roles, less than two percent identified as LGBT.
Of this, only seven were transgender and four of them from the same TV show.
The report also condemned the fact that women and ethnic minorities are underrepresented and accused Hollywood of “whitewashing”.When we start to step back to see this larger ecology, I think we see a picture of exclusion," added Professor Smith. "And it doesn't match the norms of the population of the United States." ...
Pink News.
This really is first class nonsense.
LOL! etc.
This is the kind of junk GLAAD do with their annual surveys of LGBT representation in the media - sit and watch a film, stopwatch in hand.
• Hollywood still 'straight, white, boys club' finds major diversity survey, Guardian.
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Yeh. I hate this sort of thing. As if the "LGBT community", whoever the f*** they might be, are some sort of exotic separate species from the rest of humanity.
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