Equity issues LGBT Casting Guide - LGB actors hardly mentioned

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The new Guide is available as a downloadable booklet

It says it offers guidance to producers etc etc on including, casting and working with LGBT+ actors.

Yet despite the title, virtually all the content focusses on and talks about the needs of trans actors - with very little inclusion for LGB actors.

It's difficult but you may be able to download the booklet here www.equity.org.uk/getting-involved/committees/lgbtplus-committee/documents/?fbclid=IwAR2w2TQzmEQwcJ4u4gs6AXvg8v9112fzgnBeBUOSlzNmA2_dYXIyVyAD27U

www.equity.org.uk/getting-involved/committees/lgbtplus-committee/documents/?fbclid=IwAR2w2TQzmEQwcJ4u4gs6AXvg8v9112fzgnBeBUOSlzNmA2_dYXIyVyAD27U

No surprises there. Every media article I see about LGBT "issues" now starts with and focuses primarily on the T. LGBT bullying in schools ... T teens are the focus. Difficulties growing up LGBT in rural area ... T takes centre stage. Google a support group for teens or parents ... the defacto assumption seems to be the child is T not that old-fashioned LGB.

OT I know. Apologies.

I think Equity means it's the TTTT+ Oh And Have A Bit More T Just In Case We Haven't Been Servile Enough Guide.

Oh lordy, they recommend the equivalent of sensitivity readers. Like that's worked out well in the publishing world!

Word count (on phone, so not comprehensive):

Gay- 8
Lesbian- 5
Bisexual- 5
Trans- 137

Laughable isn't it?

This guide has been put together by the Equity LGBT+ Committee, in collaboration with All About Trans and Spotlight. It is intended to be a set of best practice guidelines for working with performers and industry professionals who identify as LGBT+.

Is anyone surprised? This is why we are in this current mess.

Pretty standard ratio, donquixotedelamancha

LGB is just a prop to provide legitimacy to T.

All About Trans indeed.

Everything has to be.

Pretty standard ratio, donquixotedelamancha

Sure. I was just posting it to highlight how utterly fine that document seems.

Another quote:
There is currently a lack of representation of the LGBT+ community in the arts in general

Is this true in the UK? There are lots of industries where it is, but the arts?

Good work. I think we should do this more. It's very simple quantitative data. I saw one about stonewall the other day showing ratios of the four key words over the last five or so years and how T is now more than 50% while L is down in the single figures. Unarguable.

If my brushes with actors are anything to go by I'd say it's certainly gay friendly. Dunno about lesbians but, let's face it, neither do Equity.

I used to work in theatre and unsurprisingly it is very gay friendly, lesbians friendly not so much, I often assumed it was because the money and power was in the hands of the men.
I left 10 years ago and certainly back then Trans actors were a rarity.

I’m glad I don’t work in that field anymore, for my own mental health reasons and because I probably would have ended up being pushed out anyways as I have low tolerance for woke.

The more we can show the word count statistics the better because it really does show us what we need to know - support T at all costs.

Although I’m still scratching my head at how Trans issues have been incorporated into sexuality issues- when surely they are polar opposites.