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.
“I never want to shy away from acknowledging who I am, being authentic as much as I can be. It’s…
The Legend of the Underground – premiering Tuesday, June 29th on HBO Max – is a look at the struggle against rampant discrimination in Nigeria today, as seen through the lens of several bold and charismatic, queer youth who fight to live out loud. And here’s how you can help!
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
Before we had Ellie and Dina in 2020’s “The Last Of Us Part II,” or any other outstanding 21st-century queer characters in gaming, we had the inexplicable outlier of a game “Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh,” which is being reexamined by gaymers this pride weekend!
GLAAD has teamed up with audio entertainment leader Audible to co-curate and produce a five-episode written interview series featuring LGBTQIA+ talent from the…
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
For many immigrants, poverty, and violence make emigrating necessary. For immigrants who are gay, lesbian, bi or transgender, emigrating can also mean freedom to love the person you love, or to be the person you are. That’s just one of the themes explored in the GLAAD Media Award-nominated I Carry You With Me, the critically-acclaimed film premiering in Los Angeles and New York City on June 25 and in more cities across the country starting July 2.
Forty national LGBTQ social justice organizations and film festivals have written an open letter to Emmy Award Voters about POSE.
“When you are not living an honest, open, true life, you are taking advantage of a privilege granted to you…
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.
“You just want someone to hear you out and affirm, ‘No, you belong here,’ or ‘There’s nothing wrong with you,’…
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.