There’s yet to be a gay Marvel star in the “Captain America,” “Iron Man” or “Avengers” franchises. “Finding Dory” might feature the voice of Ellen DeGeneres, who became the first lesbian TV star to come out of the closet in 1997, but it joins the rest of the summer blockbusters that ignore the LGBT community.īryan Singer used to infuse his “X-Men” films with a gay subtext (the mutants had to “come out” to friends and family), but that’s not a theme of the latest installment. Just last summer, the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage in the United States. This seems starkly out of touch with advancements in society for the gay and transgender community. (Disney and Paramount were the only studios with movies that didn’t feature a single gay character.) Many of those films were lower budget efforts, not the kind of blockbuster productions that have audiences lining up. According to a study from GLAAD, only 22 of 126 studio releases last year featured characters that identified as LGBT. Against a national - and international - conversation about the lack of diversity in Hollywood, gay characters are barely granted speaking roles in movies.
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