The presence of LGTBI characters increases by 2.2% in the audiovisual industry compared to 2020, with a total of 106 characters on 1,141 total reels
Handicap remains underrepresented in the Spanish film and television world. Of the more than a thousand characters who populated the Spanish fiction last year, only 3.3% of them had some form of disability, far from the data available to the Spanish Committee of Representatives of People with Disabilities (Cermi), which indicates that people with disabilities in Spain now reach 4.3 million, which corresponds to almost 10% of the total population.
It is one of the most disturbing data in the report produced every year by the Observatory of Diversity in Audiovisual Media (ODA), which analyzes the representation of diversity in Spanish fiction in 2021, with a special focus on diversity through affective-sexual and gender identity orientation .
The report was prepared by volunteers, something the director of the report, Emilio Papamija, emphasized, and took into account 1141 characters from 51 films and 46 seasons of 43 fiction series to obtain the results. The key figures indicate that the presence of LGTBI characters has increased by 2.2% compared to 2020. For example, last year of the 1,141 articles analyzed, 106 were LGTBI characters, which corresponds to 9.3% of the total. However, it should be noted that this type of character is fundamentally present in the series, since of the total number 71 belong to television fiction. In spite of everything, their cinema presence, 35 of the 396 characters analysed, also increased by five percentage points to 8.8% compared to the previous year. Of course, more than two-thirds of these characters are concentrated in just three films (“CUT!”, “Where two fit” and “Polyamory for beginners” “which confirms that the creation of LGBTI content is still very polarized,” Papamija indicated. .
Source: La Verdad
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