Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
By John Mack Freeman This week, GLAAD released its annual report on the state of GLBT representation in films produced by the major studios in Hollywood. Of 126 major releases, 17.5% had a character that identified as GLBT. Via PinkNews: However, when it came to racial diversity of these characters there was a noticeable drop. […]
By John Mack Freeman GLAAD just released its 2016 “Accelerating Acceptance” report, and it shows that while progress has been made towards achieving full GLBT equality, an attitude of complacency is settling in with many GLBT supporters. From GLAAD’s Key Findings: Perhaps because marriage equality was so widely covered by the media in 2015, half […]
By John Mack Freeman This past week, GLAAD released their annual Network Responsibility Index. This index has for the last nine years been a barometers for the quantity and quality of LGBT representation by different television providers. This year, Fox became the first major network to receive an A+ score, and almost every network examined received […]