GLAADs Studio Responsibility Index 2025 report was released today and the media watchdog is sounding the alarm after two consecutive years of decreases in inclusive films and a reduction in screen time for LGBTQ+ characters. This is the 13th year for the annual report which examines how LGBTQ+ characters are portrayed by major movie studios.Of the 10 studios and distributors that GLAAD includes in the report, only one earned a score of Good. A24 released 16 total films, nine of which included LGBTQ+ characters including the queer and trans-centric films, Love Lies Bleeding and I Saw the TV Glow.Amazon and NBCUniversal earned Fair scores, while Apple TV+, Paramount Global, Sony and Warner Bros Discovery received Insufficient scores. Netflix and Lionsgate both earned the lowest score of Poor.While numerous factors go into the SRI, screen time played a significant role in this years report. Out of the 181 LGBTQ+ characters counted, only 49 had more than 10 minutes of screen time, down 11% from the previous report. Another 27 characters showed up for five to 10 minutes, 38 were on screen for one to five minutes, and 67 characters (37% of characters) were blink-and-youll-miss-it appearances of less than one minute.Other key statistics:The appearance of queer characters of color dropped 10% from 2024.There were only two films that featured transgender characters this year, the same number as 2024.There was an overall increase in LGBTQ+ character this year, up 11 characters, but many had minimal screen time or appeared in the same scene in a movie.Of the 181 LGBTQ characters counted, 66 were people of color, making up just 36% of the total. The majority, 115 characters, were white (64%). This is the lowest percentage of LGBTQ+ characters of color since 2020.Only two family films included LGBTQ+ characters and both films only featured those characters for less than one minute of screen time.GLAAD CEO and President Sarah Kate Ellis shared her thoughts in the report, saying, In a time when the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) community faces unchecked harmful and false rhetoric in news media and are treated as a wedge issue by politicians, these stories are vital. The characters and stories that reach our living rooms are able to connect with all audiencescreating connections with allies to humanize our lives and affirming our own identities.To read the full report, check out glaad.com.The post GLAAD report sounds alarm on Hollywood LGBTQ+ representation backslide appeared first on News Is Out.