open letter to the film and television industry, stating that “the fight for inclusion and visibility has hardly begun.”“We are halfway through Pride Month, when LGBTQ+ people (and our allies) come together to celebrate who we are, individually and collectively.
While it is also a time to acknowledge how far we’ve come, it is undeniable that there are — to quote a great writer — ‘miles to go before we sleep,'” read the letter.“In the same way the success of Shonda Rhimes does not mean Hollywood has fixed its racist history of suppressing Black voices, the existence of Greg Berlanti or Ryan Murphy does not mean LGBTQ+ writers as a whole have ‘made it.'”The letter goes on to detail the historic erasure and outright bigotry toward LGBTQ.