When will there be enough gay people in movies? According to GLAAD, the answer is: Probably never. Last week the LGBT activist group released its scorecard for major Hollywood studios, grading them on their support for “lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) storytelling.”
For the past 10 years, GLAAD has been releasing this list ostensibly to ensure that gay people are represented on screen just as they exist in real life. And this is reasonable goal, except that it’s not actually what GLAAD wants.
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