More than half the gay actors in Hollywood claim bias against them, fail to produce the receipts

[TheGodling]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/11/hollywood-gay-friendly_n_5804756.html

Think Hollywood is some sort of queer utopia when members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community are free to be their authentic selves? Think again.

A new study from UCLA’s LGBT think tank Williams Institute interviewed 5,700 SAG-AFTRA members about their experiences with anti-gay sentiment and language within the industry. The study reportedly found that half of performers that identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual “have heard directors and producers make anti-gay comments about actors... and 53 percent of LGBT respondents believed that directors and producers are biased against LGBT performers.”

“Although our industry is heading in the right direction, there is clearly work left to do as certain attitudes and behaviors persist and continue to put pressure on actors to stay in the closet,” Traci Godfrey and Jason Stuart, national co-chairs of the SAG-AFTRA LGBT Committee, stated. “We are confident that this unprecedented study will have profound ramifications for the entertainment industry as a whole. By utilizing the data it contains as it reflects the realities performers face, we can identify the obstacles to equal employment opportunities and full inclusion.”

These findings support similar findings released nearly a year ago by The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists that claimed Hollywood is much less gay-friendly off-screen and over half of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) actors surveyed felt directors and producers were biased against them.

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

 

[Slystallion]

It's probably a case of of straight directors or producers just talking like normal bros but when it comes to being professional just because they may make fun of flamboyant behavior with their friends doesn't mean they will discriminate when it comes to casting because a good percentage of the industry is either gay or sensitive towards gay rights

and if their is a bias it's probably pertinent to casting for masculine roles and if you come in and you have a lisp and a bend in your knee they can't cast you to be some macho shooting dude in the expendables

one of the main reasons that Australians and British actors are taking over many roles is because American actors have become too pretty and feminine

 

[Sypress]

But aren't most of the producers and directors gay?


maybe they only crave straight men

It's probably a case of of straight directors or producers just talking like normal bros but when it comes to being professional just because they may make fun of flamboyant behavior with their friends doesn't mean they will discriminate when it comes to casting because a good percentage of the industry is either gay or sensitive towards gay rights

and if their is a bias it's probably pertinent to casting for masculine roles and if you come in and you have a lisp and a bend in your knee they can't cast you to be some macho shooting dude in the expendables

one of the main reasons that Australians and British actors are taking over many roles is because American actors have become too pretty and feminine

 

[Kill Dat Noize]

But aren't most of the producers and directors gay?

.... and actors, and movie stars, etc.

 

[Prince Akeem]

Child please.

Being gay is IN right now in Hollywood.