Welcome back to Pride on Screen I'm Trevelle Anderson, the director of Culture and Entertainment

for Out Magazine and Your Friendly Neighborhood Collegrains and Comrade Feminist.

I'm taking the month of June to look back at monumental moments in film and television

for LGBTQ plus characters over the course of this mini-series.

I'm taking four episodes to discuss the representation of gay men, lesbian women,

five plus folks and trans folks with some of the most premiere LGBTQ plus minds you need

to be paying attention to.

Last week we covered the representation of gay men.

I wanted to start with gay men because they have been the most visible in film and television

with those characters experiencing the widest range of the types of characters we see,

but let's be real, it's a whole bunch of white men for the most part and we need to

diversify that it'll still a whole lot more.

As a reminder, 18.2% of major studio films have an LGBTQ character and only 8.8% of characters

as regulars on broadcast scripted series are LGBTQ.

That info comes to us from glad, the leading LGBTQ media monitoring organization.

Now this week we're making room for the ladies, zeroing in on lesbian representation,

which I guess we should say is finally on par with gay representation, no one is being

of course when it comes to film portrayals, right?

But on TV, gay men still take up entirely too much space with 42% of LGBTQ characters being

gay and only 25% for lesbians.

I am joined by two ladies that know a whole lot more about being lesbians than I, Trish

Bindix, former editor of AfterEllen.com and Into Magazine and Karen Tonkson, co-host of

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