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Jul 22, 2014 3:41 PM UTC  Ken Jeong as Leslie Chow in The Hangover Part III Ken Jeong as Leslie Chow in The Hangover Part IIIWarner Bros.  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Jul 22, 2014 3:41 PM UTC On Tuesday, the LGBT advocacy group GLAAD released its second-ever annual run-down of depictions of gay, bisexual and transgender characters in major Hollywood movies, the [Studio Responsibility Index](http://www.glaad.org/files/2014%5FSRI.pdf). The organization took a look at 102 major studio releases from 2013, and found that not much had changed: about 17% of the movies examined contained LGBT characters, versus [last year’s](http://entertainment.time.com/2013/08/21/the-new-hollywood-test-is-a-script-is-gay-friendly/) 14%; about 7% of them passed the “Vito Russo Test” — GLAAD’s way of measuring whether a depiction is both positive and substantial — versus last year’s 6%. Though the number has increased slightly in both counts, only one character out of a whole cast is needed to move a movie into the “yes” column — and many of the films that don’t pass the Vito Russo Test get a “no” for actually being _offensive_, not just for lacking an LGBT character. (Among the offenders: _The Hangover Part III_ for the character of Leslie Chow and _Grown Up 2_‘s “recurring jokes about a female bodybuilder character secretly being a man.”) In addition, GLAAD found that none of the LGBT characters counted were leads, the group was not very diverse (three-quarters of the gay characters were white) and the genres where Hollywood money is most readily spent, such as action, are the least likely to feature LGBT characters. But despite numbers that GLAAD calls “depressing” in its findings, there were a few bright spots. Notably, in a studio-by-studio tally, Sony Columbia became the first major studio in the study’s history to receive a “good” score, after being marked “adequate” last year, on the strength of _The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones_ and _Battle of the Year_, both of which pass the Vito Russo Test. 20th Century Fox and Disney both went from “failing” to “adequate.” The number of transgender characters overall also increased from zero to two. The reason GLAAD takes the time to track these movies, the report explains, is that Hollywood films are — in addition to being entertaining — capable of spreading ideas worldwide. When a gay character gets significant screen time but perpetuates stereotypes (as in the case of _Riddick_, GLAAD points out, where a major lesbian character is routinely insulted and later successfully seduced by the ultra-macho protagonist) that may be worse than having no depictions of gay people at all. “These studios have the eyes and ears of millions of audience members, and should reflect the true fabric of our society,” said GLAAD CEO and President Sarah Kate Ellis in a statement announcing the report’s release, “rather than feed into the hatred and prejudice against LGBT people too often seen around the globe.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3018438/glaad-report-gay-characters-in-movies/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3018438/glaad-report-gay-characters-in-movies/"},"headline":"GLAAD Report: Only 17 Major Studio Movies in 2013 Had LGBT Characters","datePublished":"2014-07-22T15:41:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T08:05:35.559Z","description":"The advocacy group also found that many of those depictions were offensive","url":"https://time.com/3018438/glaad-report-gay-characters-in-movies/","keywords":["movies","Hollywood","LGBT","Report","LGBTQ"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc4da14f7b33cd302/69869ca4361760e87390d252/608000_full.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lily Rothman","jobTitle":"Rothman is managing editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc4da14f7b33cd302/69869ca4361760e87390d252/608000_full.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"MCDHANG EC129","caption":"MCDHANG EC129","creditText":"Warner Bros.","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3018438/glaad-report-gay-characters-in-movies/","name":"GLAAD Report: Only 17 Major Studio Movies in 2013 Had LGBT Characters"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"One Year Anniversary of DOMA Supreme Court Ruling","description":"Thursday marks one year since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled portions of the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/Wb7jKfp4/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-06-26T21:51:23.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/Wb7jKfp4.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3018438/glaad-report-gay-characters-in-movies/","duration":"PT1M20S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3018438/glaad-report-gay-characters-in-movies/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```