2025 Studio Responsibility Index

Studio Responsibility Index Findings, Year-Over-Year

In order to understand how LGBTQ representation in film is changing, GLAAD does not analyze only data from the current year of film releases, but also how the statistics tracked in this study are changing over time. This section delineates the trends of LGBTQ representation in film year-over-year across a number of key demographics and categories beginning in 2022*, the year GLAAD began tracking streaming services and the current ten distributors.

*Prior to 2023, GLAAD included documentary films in its official tally. Starting in 2023, only scripted films are included in the SRI totals.

LOCAL MEDIA ACCOUNTABILITY INDEX – U.S. SOUTH

Fair, accurate, and inclusive news media coverage is vital to expanding public awareness and understanding of LGBTQ people. While recent decades have shown remarkable advancements in accurate reporting on issues affecting our lives and increasingly nuanced portrayals of the incredible diversity within LGBTQ communities, many reporters, editors, and producers continue to face challenges covering LGBTQ issues in a complex, sometimes rhetorically charged climate.

The U.S. South has the highest concentration of LGBTQ Americans of any region, in states without statewide laws protecting them from discrimination.