THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN THE U.S MEDIA 2015

WOMEN’S MEDIA CENTER
OVERVIEW OF FINDINGS
Of the 114 releases GLAAD counted from the major studios
in 2014, 20 (17.5%) contained characters identified as
either lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.
This is a slight increase from the 16.7% of films from the
same studios we found to be inclusive in 2013.
Once again, most of the inclusive films (65%)
featured gay male characters.
Less than a third (30%) featured bisexual
characters, and about one tenth (10%) featured
lesbian characters. There were no
characters GLAAD determined to be identifiably
transgender among any films tracked this year.
The total number of identifiably LGBT characters GLAAD
counted this year was 28, slightly up from 25 last year.
Though most of the bisexual characters counted were
women (6 out of 9), there were more than twice as
many (19) male LGBT characters.
One notable area of improvement this year is an
increase in the racial diversity of the LGBT
characters identified.
In 2014, 32.1% were people of color, compared
to 24% last year. Of the 28 characters we counted,
19 were white (67.9%), 3 were Black/African
American (10.7%), 2 were Latino/a (7.1%), and 4
were Asian/Pacific Islander (14.3%).
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