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.
Pop icon Christina Aguilera has been awarded GLAAD’s Advocate for Change Award at the 34th annual GLAAD Media Awards at the Beverly…
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.
The GLAAD Media Institute’s Spanish-Language and Latine Media team recently celebrated the many achievements of LGBTQ Latine talent with a reception at Wallspace Art Gallery in West Hollywood. Sharing their stories with us were Vico Ortiz (Our Flag Means Death), Juliana Joel (Raven’s Home), Luis Sandoval (Despierta América, K-LOVE) and Fernanda Eguiarte and Michelle Rodríguez (La Flor Más Bella, Ana, I Carry You With Me). All of these folks are either past or present (or both!) GLAAD Media Award nominees and our celebration took place ahead of this week’s 34th annual award ceremony.
In the early days of video games, depictions of transgender characters were mainly limited to crude examples of gender ambiguity,…
When trans journalist Ina Fried saw the increasingly unfair treatment of trans and non-binary youth, she wanted to find an…
A conversation with the editors, publishers and founders of both the nation’s oldest LGBTQ newspaper and its successful younger sibling…
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Wednesday, March 8th, GLAAD joined the cast and creative team of the all-new web series Marque and Hector, at their…
In 2015, Michelle Tea worked with Julián Delgado Lopera and Virgie Tovar under her RADAR Productions banner to create Drag…
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.
My Kind of Country is Apple TV+’s newest competition series, changing the face of country music. Premiering Friday, March 24th,…
Hot off the presses, Monster and Me #4: Too Cool for School is out now! The brand-new children’s adventure series…
Austin-based film, TV, and musical festival SXSW wrapped up on Mach 19, and despite taking place in Texas where LGBTQ rights are often…
You remember Kristen Kish from their beloved run on Top Chef, and now she’s back with an all-new food series Restaurants at the End of…
Grab the remote, set your DVR, or queue up your streaming service of choice! GLAAD is bringing you the LGBTQ highlights on TV this week. Check back every Sunday for up-to-date coverage in LGBTQ-inclusive programming on TV.