Media watchdog GLAAD released its Studio Responsibility Index on Thursday, using its annual ranking of queer representation in mainstream films to stand with striking unions SAG-AFTRA and the Writers Guild of America.
Convening in-person at the Los Angeles LGBTQ Center’s Ed Gould Plaza in Hollywood, leadership from both show business unions, queer talent and GLAAD CEO Sarah Kate Ellis spoke of the dangers that work stoppages from the strikes pose to inclusive storytelling.
“The fight for worker empowerment and the fight for authentic LGBTQ plus representation in media is all part of the same struggle,” said Duncan Crabtree Ireland, chief negotiator for the actors union. Crabtree Ireland’s profile has risen significantly since he appeared alongside SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher at their fiery strike announcement press conference in July. He took the GLAAD event as a moment to make the personal political.
“I’m here on behalf of our...
Convening in-person at the Los Angeles LGBTQ Center’s Ed Gould Plaza in Hollywood, leadership from both show business unions, queer talent and GLAAD CEO Sarah Kate Ellis spoke of the dangers that work stoppages from the strikes pose to inclusive storytelling.
“The fight for worker empowerment and the fight for authentic LGBTQ plus representation in media is all part of the same struggle,” said Duncan Crabtree Ireland, chief negotiator for the actors union. Crabtree Ireland’s profile has risen significantly since he appeared alongside SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher at their fiery strike announcement press conference in July. He took the GLAAD event as a moment to make the personal political.
“I’m here on behalf of our...
- 9/14/2023
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Transgender Talent, the transgender owned and operated management and production company, is looking to help Hollywood get better at portraying transgender and nonbinary characters on screen with the launch of a new consulting arm.
The company, which represents talent including David Makes Man’s Jamie K. Brown and The Craft: Legacy’s Zoey Luna, has opened the consulting business to assist the entertainment industry’s drive to increase diversity and inclusion both in front of and behind the camera.
Run by Ann Thomas, an activist, and second-generation transgender person who has worked on Hln series’ Transgender in America, the division is an expansion of its medical education division which educates and advises UCLA medical students on transgender patient care.
The company has added four Dei and trans persons to the department: Jordan Blaza Olsen (Nat Geo’s Taboo), Vittorio Wyatt Gray, who has worked with companies such as director,...
The company, which represents talent including David Makes Man’s Jamie K. Brown and The Craft: Legacy’s Zoey Luna, has opened the consulting business to assist the entertainment industry’s drive to increase diversity and inclusion both in front of and behind the camera.
Run by Ann Thomas, an activist, and second-generation transgender person who has worked on Hln series’ Transgender in America, the division is an expansion of its medical education division which educates and advises UCLA medical students on transgender patient care.
The company has added four Dei and trans persons to the department: Jordan Blaza Olsen (Nat Geo’s Taboo), Vittorio Wyatt Gray, who has worked with companies such as director,...
- 9/16/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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