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.
From a short film pitch for trans filmmakers at the 3rd annual Trans Film Summit, to LGBTQ stars on the…
Although schools and educators, libraries and librarians, parents and students all feel the effects of book bans, one group that…
https://youtu.be/wlanJ2CrbYE Golden Globe Award winning and Emmy nominated Michaela Jaé, best known for her groundbreaking roles in film and television,…
For this year’s Latine Heritage Month, it is essential to highlight and celebrate the intersectionality of queer Latine drag artists,…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzJC3wrZoT0 Rez Ball directed by Sydney Freeland takes to Chuska, New Mexico, home to the high school basketball team the…
Earlier this month, Vice Presidential candidate J.D. Vance baselessly blamed Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, for a “skyrocketing” increase in…
GLAAD recently published its findings from the annual State of HIV Stigma Report. The 5th annual report, created and produced…
In the realm of digital nostalgia, few figures are as iconic yet as enigmatic as Mavis Beacon, the typing tutor…
Banned Books Week (BBW) kicks off this year with new data showing the number of book banning attempts down, but…
¡Ojo! Latine media, art & cultural happenings to keep your eye on. Bringing you a selection of new and notable…
To have voices emerge with the sharp wit and unapologetic intensity that Lester Fabian Brathwaite possesses is amazing to witness.…
On Thursday, September 19, Netflix held the Los Angeles premiere of the documentary “Will & Harper.” The film follows Will…
Every week, The GLAAD Wrap brings you LGBTQ-related entertainment news highlights, fresh stuff to watch out for, and fun diversions…
https://youtu.be/8lR2Gj4jVXE Earpers, the time has come! Three years after the show ended, the original cast of the iconic Wynonna Earp…
It’s time to celebrate Bisexual+ Awareness Week and National Latine Heritage Month, and we’re thrilled to highlight a few of…