Spencer Lombardo, DCNF
LGBTQ+ representation in film fell for the third year in a row according to a major pride advocacy group.
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) reported that 46 out of the 225 films released in 2025 had LGBTQ+ characters, QNews reported Monday. The LGBTQ activist group previously reported 59 out of 226 (26.1%) film as such in 2024 and 100 out of 350 (28.6%) in 2023.
GLAAD did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
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“That being said, these data do align with the general decrease in corporate woke signalling we’ve seen in the past few years. That might mean studio executives believe that cutting back on ‘woke’ characters will help boost their movies’ profits and marketability,” D’Agostino said.
GLAAD president Sarah Kate Ellis argued that LGBTQ+ stories in film are “commercially and critically successful,” according to QNews.
“Every theatrically released LGBTQ-inclusive horror film made back over double the film’s production budget,” Ellis said, per the outlet. “If the industry doesn’t prioritise investing in films with LGBTQ characters, it risks losing a generation that will go elsewhere to find entertainment that does include our community.”
Approximately 9.0% of Americans identified as LGBTQ+ in 2025, Gallup reported February 2026. This is a 0.3% drop from Gallup’s 2024 data.
Meanwhile, 20.4% of films released last year had LGBTQ+ characters in 2025, according to GLAAD’s recent report. GLAAD reportedly identified zero transgender characters in the 2025 sample.
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Movies? That I’m not sure of, but TV, no way! There’s a gay on every TV show. You’d think they are 50% of the population, instead of the reality of 4%!
I stopped watching TV shows a long time ago. In almost every episode of any show there was the picked on gay guy, who always turned out to be a great father to handicapped children; there was the Muslim who was singled out by racists, or bigots, and he was always a suspect until the end where he turned out to be more American then real Americans; then the poor hard working illegal, who usually saved someone’s life, mostly the bigot who wanted them deported; the lesbian who was in the closet because her white father threw her out of the house because she sickened him; the black kid who was picked up for murder by the white cop, who turns out to be a A+ student and isn’t guilty of anything except by the racist white cop, who apologizes at the end and changes his ways; and the minority boss, who has to try ten times harder then any white person because of his or her color, and so on and so on.
All BS propaganda!