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GLAAD Studio Responsibility Index Reveals Queer Women Basically Don’t Exist In Movies
“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.”
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“Saving Mr. Banks” Erases P.L. Travers’ Queer Identity, Misses Amazing Opportunity for Representation
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.
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GLAAD’s “Where We Are On TV” Shows Best Place To Be On TV Is Behind The Camera
“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.
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Searching For A F*ck To Give About Kirk Cameron’s Anti-Gay Comments
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.
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The Gays Are Taking Over TV, Except Where We’re Not: The 2011 GLAAD Network Responsibility Index
The yearly GLAAD media report on queer representation on TV is out — who got high marks?
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GLAAD Says SNL’s Estro-Maxx Skit is Transphobic and Even Less Funny Than SNL Usually Is These Days
Oh look, Saturday Night Live managed to do something both offensive and not funny!
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GLAAD Asks Newsweek for Apology (Though This Isn’t Its First Anti-Gay Offense)
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.