US group releases video featuring examples of homophobia in movies from the past five years and warns anti-gay message is being exported around the world
Hollywood films are falling behind trailblazing television shows such as Orange is the New Black, Transparent and Modern Family when it comes to fair and relevant representation of LGBT people, according to US gay rights group Glaad (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation).
The organisation cited recent films such as Get Hard, The Wolf of Wall Street and Ted 2, all of which it said used homophobic terms or made jokes at the expense of gay characters. And it laid into Hollywood citing the group’s own recent report that no gay characters whatsoever were included in more than 80% of the 102 major studio films released in 2014.