For LGBTQ+ folks, representation in TV & films had been steadily growing over the past decades, but the numbers are still not comparable to stories with straight characters. GLAAD's 2023 Studio Responsibility Index reported that of the 350 films release theatrically by major distributors (including Netflix, Apple TV+, A24, and The Walt Disney Company) only 28.5% of films included LGBTQ Characters.

Hosts of Yahoo Finance's new show Living Not So Fabulously, David & John Auten-Schneider, chatted with Jane Sasseen on the newest episode of the vodcast. As co-chair of NewFest, NYC's largest presenter of LGBTQ+ film & media, Sasseen values the importance of storytelling, so much so that it's what "[her] life has been all about."

On this episode, Sasseen and your hosts take the topic of representation in storytelling one step further as they consider the equal importance of the types of stories depicting the community, not just the quantity. Often LGBTQ+ stories feel either tragic or fabulous, David shared, to which Sasseen agreed saying they want tales on 'regular people.'

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