Nearly half of queer writers said “they have hidden their identity — or felt compelled to do so — in an industry environment” in a recent survey.
“It is present-day Hollywood’s responsibility to make right all the harm caused by Hollywood’s past,” the leaders of the LGBTQ+ Writers Committee of the Writers Guild of America, West wrote in the letter, pointing out that many aspects of Hollywood’s history of silencing queer voices have not improved as much as industry leaders probably assume.
“Even in a post-Hays Code landscape, the prevailing narrative has not allowed LGBTQ+ characters the full scope of our humanity,” they wrote. “Too often, we are reduced to our collective traumas — coming out, victimization, the AIDS crisis, being murdered for our identities.” The letter also calls out industry gatekeepers for treating queer representation with a “‘there can only be one’ mentality.” The writers said that 25% of survey respondents “reported they were ‘always’ or ‘often’ the only LGBTQ+ writer in the room.”, queer writers remain mostly at the bottom of the ladder. And the levels of representation are even worse when taking intersectionality into account. Most queer writers who’ve “made it” in Hollywood tend to be white, male, cisgender and non-disabled.
The writers also urged Hollywood leaders to take a bigger stand, such as vocally opposing anti-trans laws. So far this year,.
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