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GLAAD’s 2025 Social Media Safety Index Is Bleak — So What’s Next?

The internet is broken. This is abundantly clear to me not only as a queer person but as an editor for one of the few remaining online publications not owned…

Drew Burnett Gregory —

May 13, 2025

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According to GLAAD, Social Media Companies Are Failing LGBTQ+ People

GLAAD released its 2022 Social Media Safety Index report, and all major social media networks – Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, and YouTube – earned below a 50% score out of…

Katie —

Jul 13, 2022

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Where We Are On TV

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Lesbian and Non-Binary TV Characters Are All The Rage, Relatively

For the first time in the history of the “Where We Are On TV” Report, lesbian characters occupy a bigger slice of the LGBTQ+ TV character pie than gay men.

Riese —

Feb 21, 2022

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GLAAD: You Watched TV Like a Full-Time Job in 2020, Even With Fewer LGBTQ+ Characters

Most of this year’s “Where We Are on TV” downtrends — and the total time Americans spent watching TV — can be attributed to the pandemic.

Heather Hogan —

Jan 14, 2021

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GLAAD 2020 Film Report: Mainstream Movies Continue to Ignore Lesbian, Bisexual, Queer and Trans Women

Of 118 major studio releases in 2019, 15 included gay men, eight included lesbian or bisexual women, and zero included trans characters.

Heather Hogan —

Jul 16, 2020

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Where We Are On TV

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LGBTQ TV Characters Are at an All Time High, According to GLAAD’s “Where We Are on TV” Report

There is plenty to celebrate. And there is plenty of work to be done.

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Nov 8, 2019

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movie features

GLAAD: Movies Are Getting Better For Lesbian and Gay Characters, Staying Terrible for Trans and LGBTQ Kids’ Characters

GLAAD’s 2019 Studio Responsibility Index is here. Good news: Gay and lesbian rep is up. Bad news: Racial diversity is down, and trans rep remains at zero.

Heather Hogan —

May 23, 2019

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LGBTQ Characters Are Thriving on TV While the World Burns, GLAAD Report Finds

GLAAD shows LGBTQ+ characters are at record highs across broadcast, streaming and cable, and for the first time ever, there are more QPOC than white LGBTQ+ characters on broadcast!

Riese —

Oct 25, 2018

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GLAAD Survey Finds Straight People Fine with “Equal Rights” in 2018, Not So Much Actual LGBT People

The statistics on acceptance of LGBT people were generally staying the same or improving, until last year — when, as GLAAD CEO Sarah Kate Ellis puts it, “the acceptance pendulum…

Rachel —

Jan 26, 2018

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pop culture fix

2018 GLAAD Media Award Nominees Include Autostraddle, Gabby Rivera’s “America,” “One Day at a Time” and More of Your Faves

GLAAD Award nominations were announced today and Autostraddle got a fifth nomination!

Heather Hogan —

Jan 19, 2018

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GLAAD and ASOS Have a New Charitable Collaboration and It’s Kind of Great

The colorful tees, sweatshirts, jewelry, and bags look — and do — good.

Nora —

Nov 4, 2017

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movie features

Mainstream Film Said “Mmmm Nope” to Representing Queer Women in 2016, GLAAD Studio Responsibility Index Reveals

At least one-third of the lesbian and bisexual female characters in major studio films last year appeared on-screen for under ten seconds, which is only one of many problems revealed…

Riese —

May 25, 2017