Accelerating Acceptance 2024

Launched in 2015, the GLAAD Media Institute’s 2024 Accelerating Acceptance report is an annual barometer on the state of support for LGBTQ Americans and equality. This report touches on community support, negative impacts of political dicourse and the importance of media exposure in changing hearts and minds. 

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Fair, accurate, and inclusive news media coverage is vital to expanding public awareness and understanding of LGBTQ people. While recent decades have shown remarkable advancements in accurate reporting on issues affecting our lives and increasingly nuanced portrayals of the incredible diversity within LGBTQ communities, many reporters, editors, and producers continue to face challenges covering LGBTQ issues in a complex, sometimes rhetorically charged climate.

The U.S. South has the highest concentration of LGBTQ Americans of any region, in states without statewide laws protecting them from discrimination. 

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