What Happened: GLAAD has been tracking the quantity, quality and diversity of LGBTQ characters in major Hollywood films since 2005 with their Studio Responsibility Index (SRI), but this year marks the first time the organization has kept track of characters with disabilities — and the results are eye-opening.
This year’s report, which focused on the eight studios that grossed the most money from film releases in 2019, has revealed a stark underrepresentation of disabled LGBTQ characters.
Just one character — which amounts to 2% of all LGBTQ characters in films this year — was featured in a major release. Among subsidiary releases from arthouse studios, there were only two LGBTQ characters, who both appeared in releases from Sony Pictures
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