The number of LGBTQ figures in Hollywood Television displays fell more than 20 percent during the 2023- 24 winter, with falls seen across broadcast, cable, and streaming shows, according to GLAAD’s latest Hollywood report cards.
GLAAD criticized Hollywood studios for failing to produce more gay and transgender figures and called the falls” concerning.”
In the report released this week, GLAAD president and CEO, Sarah Kate Ellis, stated that” we know that LGBTQ stories are essential now more than ever. It is paramount to see our life reflected on display, challenging the misconceptions and dangerous language that is running unchallenged by politicians and journalists.
She did n’t elaborate on her phrase “misinformation and harmful rhetoric”.
Networks and streaming services “are at real risk of alienating a sizable audience and tarnishing their potential product recognition”” say experts. — GLAAD President and CEO @sarahkateellis https ://t.co/FbLgPyMHeL
— GLAAD ( @glaad ) April 30, 2024
For the 2023- 24 time, GLAAD counted , to 468 LGBTQ figures, a 21.4 percentage drop from the prior month’s full of 596. Of those counted, 36 percent of the 468 LGBTQ figures will not be returning next year.
As Hollywood productions cut spending as a result of a deteriorating U.S. business under President Joe Biden, the decline is at least be largely attributed to the decrease in TV shows being pump out.
The resources reduces come amid a perfect storm of socioeconomic chaos that includes Americans continuing to , cancel their cable TV subscriptions,  , the rough decline in TV marketing, and streaming loss in the billions of dollars.
For the period, GLAAD counted , 24  , transgender characters— or 5 percent of the 468. In contrast to the prior period, the percentage remained constant. In reality, transgenders make up less than 1 percent of the adult population.
GLAAD also highlighted gay- themed series that were cancelled during the season, including Amazon’s A League of Their Own and the Paramount + series Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies.
In recent years, GLAAD has increased its pressure on Hollywood studios to support the transgender agenda, particularly the transgender agenda. Hollywood report cards that criticize studios that lack diversity in terms of gay and transgender representation are regularly published by the organization.
GLAAD recently demanded that more transgender TV characters be made, citing the need for a cultural “watershed moment” like the one gays experienced in the 1990s.
