Executive Summary
- The 10 distributors tracked in this study (A24, Amazon, Apple TV+, Lionsgate, NBCUniversal, Netflix, Paramount Global, Sony Pictures Entertainment, The Walt Disney Company, and Warner Bros. Discovery) released 250 films in 2024. Of those 250 films, 59 contain an LGBTQ character (23.6%). This is a decrease of 3.7% from the 27.3% (70 of 256 films) tracked in 2023.
- GLAAD found 181 LGBTQ characters in these 59 films, an increase of 11 characters from the previous study. It is important to consider this in context as several of these characters had minimal screentime or impact, with a large number appearing in a single scene of one film (i.e. Drive-Away Dolls).
- Of the 181 LGBTQ characters, 66 are characters of color (36%). This is a significant decrease (10%) from the 46% LGBTQ characters of color in 2023.
- Of the 181 LGBTQ characters counted, 90 are women (50%), 87 are men (48%) and four are nonbinary characters (2%). One woman and two of the nonbinary characters are transgender.
- Of the 59 LGBTQ-inclusive films released in 2024, 15 of them (25%) include bisexual+ characters, a decrease from 27% of films in 2023. Further, only 19 characters are bisexual+ (10% of all LGBTQ characters).
- There are a total of three transgender characters, up from two in 2023, but down from 13 in 2022. Only two films featured transgender characters, the same as 2023, but still down from 2022’s record high of 12 trans-inclusive films. There were no transgender men in the films released during the reporting period.
- Of the 181 LGBTQ characters, 49 clocked over 10 minutes of screen time (27%), a decrease of 11% from the previous edition’s 38%. Twenty-seven characters had between five and 10 minutes of screen time (15%), 38 characters were between one and five minutes (21%), and 67 LGBTQ characters were on screen for less than one minute (37%).
- Seven LGBTQ characters had a disability (4%). This is an increase of five characters from the previous study, which only found two. Once again, there were no LGBTQ characters living with HIV in the titles tracked.
