It’s not that they just haven’t been able to find the right gay man, who has enough talent to have a career like that.' After a hundred years of making films, it’s not a coincidence. The list goes on and on, and that’s not a coincidence. 'There is no gay Tom Hanks in this country,' Eichner said. More than half of LGBTQ characters (28 of 50, 56%) received less than three minutes of total screen time, with 21 appearing for less than one minute. But even though there are more LGBTQ characters on screen, Eichner says 'we're often used in such limited ways.' Of the 22 films counted in GLAAD's survey, only nine included an LGBTQ character who had more than 10 minutes of screen time.
