Entertainment Media
Ensuring fair, accurate, inclusive and diverse portrayals of LGBTQ people in television, film, music, streaming content, comics and video games.
The Entertainment Media Program monitors film, television, music, and related entertainment media to ensure inclusive, diverse and accurate portrayals of the LGBTQ community. When anti-LGBTQ content runs, GLAAD speaks out about why anti-LGBTQ attitudes and content have no place in the media and how that impacts real lives. The staff also works with TV and film studio executives, producers and writers to provide script consultations and to advocate for the inclusion of LGBTQ people at all levels in an effort to spark conversations about LGBTQ issues in living rooms and around water coolers.
GLAAD releases two annual reports: Where We Are on TV analyzes the overall diversity of primetime scripted series regulars on broadcast networks and looks at the number of LGBTQ characters on cable networks and streaming services, and the Studio Responsibility Index ranks the major Hollywood studios by the quantity, quality and content of LGBTQ representation in the films they produce.
In 2015, GLAAD produced a video entitled Hollywood Must Do Better that compiled some of the anti-LGBT moments GLAAD had encountered in Hollywood film over the previous five years.
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Every week, The GLAAD Wrap brings you LGBTQ-related entertainment news highlights, fresh stuff to watch out for, and fun diversions…
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Actor Nicholas Ashe Talks LGBTQ Inclusion in the Black Church, Storytelling at Spelman College
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GLAAD Remembers Cecilia Gentili, Transgender Activist, Actress, Health Care Advocate, and Journalist
The LGBTQ community was devastated to hear about the death of transgender actress and advocate Cecilia Gentili The news was…
After co-executive producing, directing and writing an episode of NBC’s revival of Quantum Leap for the first season, Shakina is back…
To round out GRAMMY Week 2024, in partnership with GLAAD and OUTLOUD, the Recording Academy launched Academy Proud – a…
The music industry braved the rain from the “atmospheric river” in Los Angeles to celebrate the 66th Annual Grammy Awards…
Every week, The GLAAD Wrap brings you LGBTQ-related entertainment news highlights, fresh stuff to watch out for, and fun diversions…
When filmmaker Amrou Al-Kadhi premiered Layla at the Sundance Film Festival, they finally had the opportunity to see it with an audience and…
‘Sort Of’ Star and Co-Creator Bilal Baig Talks Final Season and How Series Championed LGBTQ Voices
After three seasons, the GLAAD Media Award nominated and two-time Peabody Award winning series Sort Of will say goodbye. In the…
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Casting director and creator of the Casting Collective, Logan Clark has been working in the unscripted TV space for over…