GLAAD has revealed in a new report that LGBTQ visibility has increased in movies overall but there are still major problems with the representation.
The LGBTQ media advocacy group’s annual report looks at movies from eight major studios. It found that 22 of the 118 movies released last year included characters identifying as part of the LGBTQ community.
Many of them, however, failed to pass the Vito Russo test. The Vito Russo test measures the tokenism of a character. If a character is not essential to the plot and seems to only be defined by their identity as part of the LGBTQ community, then they fail the test.
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