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While the past several decades have yielded remarkable progress for the LGBTQ community in the United States, acceptance of LGBTQ people is slipping, and discrimination is increasing, in the face of attacks, bias, and erasure by the Trump administration. This is the first time the Accelerating Acceptance report has shown a drop in acceptance for LGBTQ people. 2017 has demonstrated that the path to full equality and acceptance is not guaranteed, but in the face of this erosion GLAAD will work to ensure 100% acceptance of LGBTQ people everywhere.

Below are some of the findings from this report:Of the 698 characters on scripted primetime series, there were 19 LGBTQ characters across…

The Where We Are on TV report analyzes the overall diversity of primetime scripted series regulars on broadcast networks and…

The GLAAD Studio Responsibility Index (SRI) maps the quantity, quality and diversity of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people in films released by the seven major motion picture studios during the 2016 calendar year. GLAAD researched films released by 20th Century Fox, Lionsgate Entertainment, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures, Walt Disney Studios and Warner Brothers, as well as films released by four subsidiaries of these major studios. The report is intended to serve as a road map toward increasing fair, accurate and inclusive LGBTQ representation in film.

Started in the early 1900s by four Polish immigrant brothers as a simple movie theater business, following several decades of…

Of the major U.S. film studios, Walt Disney Studios may be the most recognizable, with a well-defined brand identity that…

Of all the major film studios, Universal Pictures, founded in 1912, is the oldest. In 2004, Universal Studios merged with…

Starting out as Cohn-Brandt-Cohn Film Sales in 1918, the studio adopted the name Columbia Pictures in 1924. Thanks to its…