GLAAD’s 2021 field workplace report card has been handed out and the outcomes are…combined.

The media advocacy group launched its tenth Studio Accountability Index, an annual examine that tracks “the amount, high quality and variety” of LGBTQ characters in movies launched in a calendar 12 months by seven distributors, per information from Field Workplace Mojo. The studios: Lionsgate, Paramount Footage, Sony Footage, United Artists Releasing, Common Footage, Walt Disney Studios and Warner Bros.

Of 77 movies theatrically launched by these studios final 12 months, 16, or 20.8 p.c, contained LGBTQ characters. These movies included Our Girls, Licorice Pizza, Pricey Evan Hansen, Eternals, West Facet Story and Within the Heights. That represented a rise of six movies however follows 2020, which noticed theatrical releases plummet because of the pandemic.

These movies featured a complete of 28 LGBTQ characters, a rise of eight characters from 2020. Of these 28 characters, 19 are males and 9 are girls. For the primary time in 5 years, GLAAD counted a transgender character in a significant studio theatrical launch: Anybodys from Disney’s West Facet Story, a transgender man. There have been no trans girls or nonbinary characters in 2021, the report said.

Racial variety of LGBTQ characters dropped barely 12 months over 12 months to 39 p.c, marking a lower of 1 p.c. Of the 28 LGBTQ characters, 17 have been white, 5 have been Black, two Latinx, two Asian/Pacific Islander, one multiracial and one was Center Japanese. This exhibiting falls in need of 2017’s document excessive of 57 p.c LGBTQ characters of coloration.

This report discovered a lower in lesbian illustration. Of the 16 LGBTQ-inclusive movies, 11, or 69 p.c, featured homosexual male characters, up from 60 p.c final 12 months. 4, or 25 p.c, included lesbian characters, a marked lower from 2020’s 50 p.c, whereas two included a bisexual character, and one included a transgender character.

Additionally on the decline is display screen time. Seven of the 28 LGBTQ characters logged greater than 10 minutes on display screen with the vast majority of these, 17 of 28, clocking below 5 minutes. Six snagged lower than one minute.

Of word: GLAAD additionally assigned scores like wonderful, good, inadequate, poor and failing to the studios based mostly on an investigation of the “amount, high quality and variety” of LGBTQ characters in addition to actions from the studios or guardian firms that both supported or harmed the neighborhood. None acquired prime grades of wonderful or good whereas Lionsgate and Paramount each got failing grades for not that includes any LGBTQ characters of their movies.

“After a decade of this report, we’ve seen exponential progress in LGBTQ illustration in movie pushed by our examine. But there nonetheless stays a lot work to be performed in Hollywood,” stated Megan Townsend, GLAAD’s director of leisure analysis and evaluation. “There are such a lot of components of our neighborhood — bisexual+ individuals, these dwelling with HIV, LGBTQ characters with disabilities and transgender individuals, to call a number of — which have but to see themselves totally mirrored on the large display screen. As we glance to the following 10 years, these tales should change into a precedence if studios need youthful and extra various generations to proceed to assist and interact with their storytelling.”

The Studio Accountability Index additionally evaluates LGBTQ tales in movies based mostly on GLAAD’s Vito Russo Take a look at, named for the movie historian and GLAAD co-founder. For a movie to move, it should include a personality who identifies as LGBTQ, that character should not be solely or predominantly outlined by their sexual orientation or gender id, the character have to be tied to the plot in such a approach that the character’s elimination would have a big impact, and that particular person’s story should not be outwardly offensive.

Of 2021’s 16 LGBTQ-inclusive movies, GLAAD reviews that 9 handed the Vito Russo take a look at, a lower from the earlier 12 months’s 90 p.c. The total report might be discovered right here.