This text refers to the audioCD edition. This page does not include gay characters. Listed characters are either recurring characters, cameos, guest stars, or one-off characters, some of which may be gay icons. characters that either self-identify as gay or have been identified by outside parties to be gay, becoming part of gay media. In addition to performing in plays and musicals, her voice can be heard on numerous commercials, audiobooks, cartoons, and video games. This is a list of gay characters in fiction, i.e. She is former cohost of Fridays on the Cartoon Network. Tara Sands is an American actress, television host, and voice talent who has won numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards for narration. She is the voice of many cartoon characters, including Leo and Luna in Yu-Gi-Oh, Carrie in Barbie: A Fairy Secret, Nathan in Pok e mon, and Lola in Angelo Rules. Her voice has also been heard on television in commercial campaigns and numerous Nickelodeon and Disney products. You can find her online at Cassandra Morris has received critical acclaim for her voice-over work from Publishers Weekly and AudioFile magazine, earning a dozen Earphones Awards and twice been a finalist for the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. The end of the story has a twist that worked for me, which left the book feeling fun at the end. I really enjoyed getting to meet these characters, as they were a little more grounded than some of the other Emmie and Friends characters. Terri lives with her husband and two daughters in Cleveland, Ohio. The characters were developed from background characters of Terri Libenson's previous Emmie and Friends books. She most definitely did draw a lot during class, which worked out well, since she grew up to be a cartoonist: she is the creator of the internationally syndicated, Reuben Award-winning comic strip The Pajama Diaries and was a longtime writer of humorous cards for American Greetings. 2016 saw only 20% of non-white LGBTQ+ characters, compared to 25.5% in 2015 and 32.1% in 2014.Terri Libenson may or may not have been inspired by her own mostly good, sometimes harrowing middle school experiences in writing Invisible Emmie. GLAAD also noted a lack of racial diversity in film, with the numbers decreasing rapidly year after year. “Even five years later, Hollywood is failing LGBTQ+ people and lagging far, far behind other forms of media like television and streaming content.”ĭespite 2017 having a few talked-about LGBTQ+ movie moments in films like ‘Power Rangers’ and ‘Beauty and the Beast’, the summer film season continued to showcase a large amount of LGBTQ+ invisibility. Twitter: Hajabeg Twitter: ingridnilsen Twitter: DanaPiccoli “It’s also crucial for young LGBTQ+ people to see themselves reflected in the media.” “When LGBTQ+ people are left off screen, it sends the message that we don’t matter or that we don’t exist - both of which are dangerous. Megan Townsend, director of entertainment research and analysis at GLAAD, told NBC News: “Representation matters. The same number as 2015 – with this character being used for comedic purposes in Zoolander 2. Transgender representation on screen remains extremely low, with only one trans character counted in the report – See, for example, Harley Quinn’s bisexuality being completely written out of Suicide Squad. Lesbian representation, however, rose from 23% in 2015 to 35% within inclusive films.īisexual representation was seen in 13% of LGBTQ+ movies, but bisexual erasure is still a big problem. Moonlight of course won Best Picture at the Oscars last year, amid controversial, confusing scenes.ĭespite films like Moonlight, GLAAD reported that gay men are still the most represented group in the LGBTQ+ community. She added that “films like Moonlight prove there is a huge opportunity to not only tell LGBTQ stories worthy of Oscar gold, but to open the hearts and minds of audiences here and around the world in places where these stories can be a lifeline to the people who need it most.” Twitter: DubiousCA GLAAD president and CEO Kate Ellis said: “With many of the most popular TV shows proudly including LGBTQ characters and stories, the time has come for the film industry to step up and show the full diversity of the world that movie audiences are living in today instead and end the outdated humour seen in many films.” There was good news for LGBT media last night at the Emmy Awards, with openly lesbian writer Lena Waithe becoming the first black woman to win for comedy writing.īlack Mirror’s iconic lesbian love story San Junipero picked up two awards, while Kate McKinnon won for best supporting actress in a comedy.īut when it comes to films, LGBT people are still horrendously underrepresented. There was also a “notable drop in the percentage of LGBTQ characters of colour.” Ellen Page in Flatliners (Sony Pictures Entertainment) The report showed that “only 23 out of 125 films tracked from 2016 contain LGBTQ+ characters”. LGBTQ+ people are either invisible or used as punchlines in big Hollywood films, according to a new report released by GLAAD.
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