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.
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.
Director Tony Zosherafatain and Executive Producer Trace Lysette talk about their new docu-series “Trans in Trumpland” coming to Topic.com.
While famous for being at Stonewall on the night of the uprising, it’s the work she’s dedicated her life to…
2021 Athena Film Festival features Come As You Are section, plus a selection of queer documentaries
The eleventh annual Athena Film Festival, a joint partnership between Barnard College’s Athena Center for Leadership & Melissa Silverstein’s WOMEN IN HOLLYWOOD, will run virtually this year throughout the month of March.
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.
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.
LGBTQ people and issues were missing from the superhero and vigilante books that author and college student Donovan Russo read…
“It’s just been a beautiful, beautiful year in terms of transmasculine representation.” The history of trans representation in Hollywood is…
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.
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 28th annual SXSW Film Festival is slated for March 16-20, 2021. The virtual lineup has eight wonderful LGBTQ-inclusive entries spanning from…
“I want to be visible. I’ve fought for visibility and I will remain visible.” Mark Segal moved to New York…
Liz Carmichael claimed that her three-wheeled car, The Dale, would solve America’s gas crisis — but as a transgender woman living in the 1970s, her path to success was complicated.
Grab the remote, set your DVR or queue up your streaming service of choice! GLAAD is bringing you the LGBTQ…
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.