How Hollywood Is (and Isn't) Getting Better at LGBT Inclusion
Brandon Flynn, one of the breakout actors from Netflix’s “13 Reasons Why,” has spent the last two years fielding questions about his personal life. In 2017, he wrote a passionate post on Instagram, advocating for an Australian vote that allowed for same-sex marriage. Soon enough, news sites such as HuffPost and E! News were reporting that he’d come out of the closet. Flynn, 25, says that wasn’t the case.
“There’s a big difference between society as a whole and what’s going on in social media,” says Nico Tortorella, a co-star of the TV Land series “Younger,” who identifies as non-binary. “It’s a confusing time, that’s for sure. In terms of representation in Hollywood, yes, it’s getting better. But a lot of characters we write for queer people are still determined by the violence they experience.”
Laverne Cox, the pioneering actress and activist, is optimistic about the changes that she’s seen in a relatively short time. Only five years ago, she became the first openly transgender person to be nominated for a primetime acting Emmy for “Orange Is the New Black.” Today many members of her community are competing for awards and getting cast in high-profile projects.
“In television, things have changed a dramatic amount,” says Berlanti, who came of age in a different time in Hollywood. “When we were first doing ‘Dawson’s Creek,’” he says of the 1998 series, “there was a lot of pushback and conversations about having characters who were gay have a romantic kiss.” He threatened to quit as a writer of the series when network executives expressed trepidation about a scene featuring a romantic kiss between two men, played by Kerr Smith and Adam Kaufman.
As for transgender actors on the big screen, they have been nonexistent. ”There’s few of us in film,” says Cox, who would like to play more parts in movies. Many studio executives privately admit they are worried that casting gay or transgender actors could hurt the bottom line of a film in international territories — especially China — that are less tolerant of LGBTQ rights.
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