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.
The franchise’s first Mexican season will feature Lolita Banana and Valentina as hosts, alongside a cast of beloved drag performers from all over the Latin American country.
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The Human Rights Watch Film Festival is back again this year! Between May 31st and June 11th, you can go…
This week GLAAD’s Spanish-Language & Latine Media team has some exciting updates on films premiering at LALIFF, new music from Caribbean…
WATCHLIST: Films & TV That Center LGBTQ+ Asian and Asian American Characters and Community
By: Kayla Thompson, Communities of Color and Media Junior Associate, Amanda Hurwitz, Entertainment Research Junior Associate, and Adam Weinreb, Entertainment…
By: Kristian Fanene Schmidt, Contributing Writer & Kayla Thompson, Communities of Color and Media Junior Associate Since 1992 in the…
WATCH: David Archuleta Unmasks His Truth in Emotional Season Finale of “The Masked Singer”
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Puerto Rico’s Trans Community Marches on 10 Years After Historic ‘Mala, Mala’ Documentary
Contributor Joanna Cifredo revisits ‘Mala, Mala’ an iconic 2014 documentary directed by Antonio Santini and Dan Sickles profiling Puerto Rico’s trans communities
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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 to help you kick off the weekend.
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https://www.youtube.com/embed/FbasPxnNFvc The biggest wedding event on network TV is upon us. On May 16, the 2-hour season 4 finale of 9-1-1: Lone…