“Yep, that’s right. Out of 314 major Hollywood film releases, one single film — Melissa McCarthy’s Tammy — passed the Vito Russo test with queer female characters.”
We are very popular and good at our jobs.
In my mind, to fail at LGBT inclusion in fiction is to have a failure of imagination, a lazy lack of understanding concerning the world outside of one’s self. To intentionally choose to tell a story about a real LGBT person and then exclude their queer identity is a failure on an entirely different level.
“Where We Are On TV” has some promising and not-so-promising numbers for queer women on the teevee, and also raises some questions about how we quantify “representation” in the first place for all groups.
“Of the 101 films released last year by the six major studios, only five films contained any semblance of queer lady representation.”
Exclusive video of Beth Ditto not reading off a prompter at the LA GLAAD Awards “because I’m not good at doing what I’m told.” Instead she kicks ass, takes names, and is perfect.
“…these voices are comparing LGBT people to Nazi Germany, predicting that equal treatment of LGBT people will lead to the total collapse of society, and even making accusations of satanic influence.”
GLAAD wants you to tell Growing Pains’ Kirk Cameron that he’s not your teen idol anymore after his super gross anti-gay comments on CNN.
The yearly GLAAD media report on queer representation on TV is out — who got high marks?
Watch Naya Rivera’s hosting duties at the GLAAD Media Awards, Lady Gaga releases two new Born This Way tracks, Saturday Night Live revives the Ambiguously Gay Duo, and Adele is perfection.
Kristin Chenoweth is winning a GLAAD Vanguard Award for her Newsweek response letter and Autostraddle is a part of it.
Oh look, Saturday Night Live managed to do something both offensive and not funny!
I was writing about LGBT Spirit Day but then it was a week later so I decided to focus on the color purple instead, but with a special emphasis on spirit day.
GLAAD’s network responsibility index shows per ushe that there aren’t enough lesbians on TV. But something else surprising happened this year — the teenagers kicked our butts! Who was the first young queer you remember seeing on teevee?
GLAAD asks Newsweek for apology over Seetodeh’s gays-can’t-play-straight piece! Why do we still care? Because, believe it or not, this isn’t even the worst thing he’s written about gay people for Newsweek, just look at the victim-blaming hate-crime cover story! Anti-DADT empirical research is on YouTube and they’re dancing, Happiness without perfection, what your server is thinking about your date, and a Catholic university isn’t hiring a lesbian.
Adam Lambert, previously criticized for allegedly not being down with gay media, is totally doing the gay media awards, y’all! Lady Gaga at the HRC, DJ Samantha Ronson & Ke$ha at Dinah Shore — something’s changing! Also; Tila Tequila, Nicki Minaj, glaad likes Ricky Martin & pro wrestling’s new bisexual.
Gay Batwoman takes home a GLAAD award, Felicia day tells us her type (maybe?) and the new Tron and Prince of Persia trailers. Also, this viral Battlestar Galactica/Beastie Boys mash-up may be the best thing that’s ever happened to me.
GLAAD nominees are announced and will specially honor Miranda Hobbes for being so sassy I MEAN CYNTHIA NIXON for advocating equal rights! Also; Jennifer Beals’ interview & L Word Book, Rihanna on W Magazine, Tila Tequila’s emotional interview, InTouch magazine’s anti-choice Palin cover and the second-best Lady Gaga Bad Romance YouTube video ever.
It’s Sunday Funday! From now on Sunday will be a day of happiness where we’ll only tell you about happy things, just like Jesus would’ve wanted.
Cat Cora is going to have many babies, Lara Perkins is getting married, gay republicans have a new, catchier name, and an eleven-year-old boy has hung himself as an absolutely inconceivably awful consequence of anti-gay bullying.