'When Will Hollywood Come Out of the Closet?'

Doctor Faustus · Oct 11, 2012

Thursday is National Coming Out Day. While this annual recognition of LGBT civil awareness on the anniversary of the 1987 Lesbian and Gay Rights March on Washington marks an important milestone each and every year, it seems particularly important within today’s heated political climate... [and] it seems that support for equal rights is no longer the social boogeyman on the national scale that it once was; in fact, at least generationally, the polarization of anti-gay/pro-gay has reversed. Social politics are changing in favor of progress, and at a dramatic rate. It is now politically beneficial to be for equal rights.

2012 is also the year that has seen more LGBT characters on television than ever before. According to a recent study by GLAAD (and neatly summarized by Buzzfeed), 4.4% of all regular characters featured on scripted network television are LGBT-indentified. And with the popularity of shows like Glee, Modern Family, and The New Normal (and popular cable shows like HBO’s True Blood), the presence of LGBT characters resonates further outside what the single-digit number suggests.

But while LGBT persons, representations, and issues have become foregrounded in mass culture through the institutions of politics, television, and music, movies – or, at least, studio movies – are woefully out-of-the-loop. In 2012 of all years, why is Hollywood still hesitant to represent out-LGBT characters onscreen?
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Full article here: When Will Hollywood Come Out of the LGBT Closet? | Film School Rejects

I agree largely with this author, but he fails to mention the whitewashing of LGBTs in the media... ethnic minorities are also "woefully out-of-the-loop."

'When Will Hollywood Come Out of the Closet?'

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