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 Sundance Institute has unveiled its slate of films for the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. The 2021 festival will present…
Listen to Adam Eli Talk about How Social Media is Changing Activism on the LGBTQ&A Podcast
The activist and community organizer says social media “is a tool I firmly believe our ancestors would be overjoyed with…
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.
Karine Jean-Pierre has been announced as the principal deputy press secretary in the Biden White House. For the first time…
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 Outstanding Video Game category at the 32nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards will recognize games released in 2020 and, once again, will be highly competitive.
The history of opera is woven with a surprisingly transgressive relationship to gender. Mozart, Strauss, and Verdi all wrote “trouser…
Elliot Page, Oscar-nominated star of Umbrella Academy, speaks out about being transgender
Today, TIME Magazine published an interview with Elliot Page who discusses his decision to disclose that he is transgender and…
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.
Canada’s Drag Race Star Ilona Verley Talks about Being Two-Spirit on the LGBTQ&A Podcast
“Honestly, f*ck gender. I just want to be myself…the labels can come at a later date.” Ilona Verley, one of…
Many LGBTQ artists were among the nominees for The 63rd Grammy Awards, which were announced on Tuesday morning.
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.
GLAAD had the opportunity to visit the set of the LGBTQ-inclusive holiday romantic comedy Happiest Season and talk with the cast and creatives involved in making the film.