Welcome to The Box Scene Project

The Box Scene Project is a fan-based non-profit organization. Our mission is to achieve equal representation for LGBT*/minority characters, actors, and issues on network television.

In our first year, we demonstrated fan support for equal representation by successfully lobbying for the release of a deleted scene between TV’s most popular gay teen couple, and raising over $70,000 for charity by offering fans prizes and items from their favorite diverse celebrities and television shows.

Current Amount Raised for Charity = $74,000

Learn more our past efforts here.

Current and Upcoming Projects

LeakyCon Portland 2013 - We'll be there!

We will have merch, goodies, launch a new awareness campaign and participate in a panel entitled "Can Fandom Change The World?" Panelists include Hank Green, Anthony Rapp, Danica Johnson, and our friends at the Harry Potter Alliance.

3rd Charity Giveaway! Got Item Donations?

Our 3rd Charity Giveaway launches August 1st, the anniversary of the release of The Box Scene. We need your help for it to be a success.

If you have fandom memorabilia or you make items such as t-shirts, pins, jewelry, etc., and you'd like to help, please email us at donations@theboxsceneproject.org.

All items must be delivered to our P.O. Box by July 15.

Calling All Bloggers!

The Box Scene Project will soon launch our effort to unite multiple fans and fandoms to bring attention to the importance of and help achieve equal representation for LGBT/minority characters, actors, and issues on network TV.

If you watch multiple network TV shows and feel passionate about equal representation, we want you!

If you're interested in joining our team, please fill out this short application

Have Project Ideas for Us? Let Us Know!

Please email us at info@theboxsceneproject.org or submit information concerning potential projects you think we might be interested in.

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    The Box Scene Project’s 3rd Charity Giveaway Needs You!

    It’s that time again!

    Mark your calendars because The Box Scene Project’s 3rd Charity Giveaway begins August 1st, the anniversary of the release of The Box Scene.

    To make it a success we need your help!

    Do you have fandom memorabilia laying around and collecting dust? Do you create items, jewelry, iPhone cases, t-shirts, etc. that you think other fans will love?
    Donate your item to The Box Scene Project’s 3rd Charity Giveaway and get three free entries to win a prize of your choice!
    We would need your item delivered to our P.O. Box by July 15. If you would like to donate an item, please email us at donations@theboxsceneproject.org.
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    Calling All Writers! We Want You!

    Do you watch multiple popular network TV shows?

    Does the lack of equal representation bother you?

    Do you want to do something about it?

    If so, we want you!

    The Box Scene Project will soon launch its effort to unite multiple fans and fandoms together to bring attention to the importance of and demand equal representation of LGBT*/minority characters, actors, and issues on network television.

    If you would like to join our team, please fill out the short application at the link.
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    LeakyCon Portland 2013! We’ll be there! Panel: Can Fandom Change the World? Join us, Hank Green, Anthony Rapp, Andrew Slack, Danica Johnson, and Lauren Bird as we discuss the power of fandom (that’s you!) to change the world. Friday, June 28 @ 5pm - Oregon 202/203 Project: Media Representation We’re launching our newest project for representational equality at LeakyCon and we need your help! Find us in the merch den with our friends at the Harry Potter Alliance or in the corridors and be ready for your close up (and take some merch/free goodies with you)!

    LeakyCon Portland 2013!

    We’ll be there!

    Panel: Can Fandom Change the World?

    • Join us, Hank Green, Anthony Rapp, Andrew Slack, Danica Johnson, and Lauren Bird as we discuss the power of fandom (that’s you!) to change the world.
    • Friday, June 28 @ 5pm - Oregon 202/203

    Project: Media Representation

    • We’re launching our newest project for representational equality at LeakyCon and we need your help! Find us in the merch den with our friends at the Harry Potter Alliance or in the corridors and be ready for your close up (and take some merch/free goodies with you)!
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    racebending: “In my experience as an advocate for diversity and inclusion in the entertainment industry (being on the executive board of Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts, being co-chair of Actors’ Equity Associations Equal Employment Opportunity Committee and sitting on various diversity committees with various parts of the industry engaging in dialogue about these issues for the past 15 years or so), I’ve found that most everyone likes to pass the buck. I’ve heard everything from it’s the producers’ fault to it’s the directors’ fault, to it’s the playwrights’ fault, to it’s the actors’ fault for not showing up to auditions. At the end of the day, I believe that casting has to be a truly collaborative effort. “An actor has to be up to the challenge, his/her agent has to submit/push for an “outside the box” suggestion, the casting director has to give that agent’s client an opportunity to be seen by the creative team, the creative team has to have an open mind to re-imagine the role, the producer has to set the tone and mandate to the creative team that he/she is writing the checks to back a production that’s committed to portraying the world through a wider lens” -Christine Toy Johnson, an award-winning writer, actor, filmmaker, and advocate for inclusion. Member: BMI Workshop, Dramatists Guild, ASCAP, AEA, SAG-AFTRA, Asian American Composers and Lyricists Project (founder), executive board of Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts, elected leadership of Actors’ Equity Association (and co-chair of the union’s EEOC), founding steering committee member of AAPAC.   Read the full interview at LeeandLow publishing

    racebending:

    “In my experience as an advocate for diversity and inclusion in the entertainment industry (being on the executive board of Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts, being co-chair of Actors’ Equity Associations Equal Employment Opportunity Committee and sitting on various diversity committees with various parts of the industry engaging in dialogue about these issues for the past 15 years or so), I’ve found that most everyone likes to pass the buck. I’ve heard everything from it’s the producers’ fault to it’s the directors’ fault, to it’s the playwrights’ fault, to it’s the actors’ fault for not showing up to auditions. At the end of the day, I believe that casting has to be a truly collaborative effort.

    “An actor has to be up to the challenge, his/her agent has to submit/push for an “outside the box” suggestion, the casting director has to give that agent’s client an opportunity to be seen by the creative team, the creative team has to have an open mind to re-imagine the role, the producer has to set the tone and mandate to the creative team that he/she is writing the checks to back a production that’s committed to portraying the world through a wider lens”

    -Christine Toy Johnson, an award-winning writer, actor, filmmaker, and advocate for inclusion. Member: BMI Workshop, Dramatists Guild, ASCAP, AEA, SAG-AFTRA, Asian American Composers and Lyricists Project (founder), executive board of Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts, elected leadership of Actors’ Equity Association (and co-chair of the union’s EEOC), founding steering committee member of AAPAC.  

    Read the full interview at LeeandLow publishing
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    aposse:

    A+ Televison: The Fosters
    The official synopsis of this series is, “a multi-ethnic family mix of foster, adopted, and biological kids are being raised by two moms.” Choice of word is important and it most certainly gives an impression. The fact that “two moms” was used instead of “lesbians” or “gay couple” is so goddamn important and tells you so much about the focus of this series. Their sexual orientations are detached from the premise of the show because it’s being said that hey, this is a norm. Two moms can be a norm just as much as two dads or a mother and father can be.

    Most often you see the children of gay and lesbian couples being bullied,  the parents coming to the rescue and having to explain to them that they will face these prejudices. Yet you have the opposite of that here. These children know who their parents are, they understand that there’ll be prejudice, and they don’t need to accept anything because there isn’t anything to accept; these are their mothers and that’s just as plain as saying the sky is blue. 

    And god, is that ever so refreshing to see.
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    When I was a kid, you know I immigrated to the States in 1978, and I’m six years old and watching TV and I didn’t see any Asians on television. And you turn on Star Trek and there’s this Asian guy not chopping anybody up. He’s honorable, a helmsman of a spaceship, and it was a big, big deal for me to see that and have a role model.

    John Cho (x)

    Daily reminder that media representation matters. We need to see ourselves in stories to believe in the possibility of our own stories.


    posted with 9,769 notes at 3:01 pm, 22 May 2013 via isympathizewithlinus, orig. divorcedreality
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    thetrevorproject:

    Adam Lambert has partnered with AT&T to raise money for The Trevor Project as part of the Live Proud campaign. Here’s how you can help:

    1. Like the AT&T Live Proud Facebook Page and $1 will be donated to Trevor
    2. ReTweet this tweet or this tweet and $0.50 will be donated to Trevor
    3. Re-blog this and encourage your followers to do the same!

    Up to $50K will be donated to Trevor by June 30. Thanks for your support!
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