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[…] The film’s portrayal of bisexual and lesbian women as duplicitous and psychotic murderers was yet another example of Hollywood’s longstanding practice of portraying lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) characters as evil villains and tragic victims. This time, however, the LGBT community was going to make their voices heard. Fed up with how the […]

Of the 114 releases GLAAD counted from the major studios in 2014, 20 (17.5%) contained characters identified as either lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.  This is a slight increase from the 16.7% of films from the same studios we found to be inclusive in 2013. Once again, most of the inclusive films (65%) featured […]

Of the 109 film releases GLAAD counted from the major studios in 2017, 14 (12.8 percent) contained characters identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer. This is a significant decrease of 5.6 percentage points and down nine films from the previous year’s 18.4 percent (23 of 125 films). While part of this drop may […]

[…] Tim Walz, Vice President Harris’ running mate, was in the convention center with his family. Walz’s record in Minnesota includes signing new laws to protect access to transgender health care, secure access to abortion, prohibit bans on books, and a ban on so-called conversion therapy. In 1999, Walz was a high school social studies […]

GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, is responding to the swearing in of Ketanji Brown Jackson as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Justice Jackson is the country’s first Black female justice. Statement from Sarah Kate Ellis, President & CEO of GLAAD, below and on […]

[…] 3 of them were (16%) lesbian women, and 2 of them (11%) were bisexual women. No bisexual men were represented across the networks. Additionally, there was 1 straight transgender woman (7%), no transgender men were represented in primetime series. Additionally, one of the LGBTQ characters talked about being of indigenous descent (According to the International Work […]

[…] an advanced reporting guide for journalists and advocates to accompany our transgendervictimsofcrime”>Doubly Victimized Guide. It reflects that many more reporters are now covering the homicides of transgender people in the U.S. but there is still a lot of work to do to improve coverage. The biggest hurdle, in this report’s thesis, is to shift […]

The current story of book bans is interwoven with the story of the skyrocketing number of legislative proposals targeting LGBTQ people and especially, transgender and nonbinary youth. Like bills targeting health care, drag performance, pronouns and public spaces, book bans baselessly and disingenuously purport to be about protecting children and parents’ rights, when their […]