{"id":2233627,"date":"2024-04-30T12:56:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T16:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lgbt-character-representation-on-tv-decreases-again-per-glaad-report\/"},"modified":"2024-04-30T12:58:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T16:58:54","slug":"lgbt-character-representation-on-tv-decreases-again-per-glaad-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lgbt-character-representation-on-tv-decreases-again-per-glaad-report\/","title":{"rendered":"GLAAD Report Shows Decrease in TV LGBT Representation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flgbt-character-representation-on-tv-decreases-again-per-glaad-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2233627&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>GLAAD&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-reasons-making-taxpayers-pay-off-student-loans-is-a-rotten-idea\/\" title=\"5 Reasons Making Taxpayers Pay Off Student Loans Is A Rotten Idea\">recent report<\/a> on TV \u2062representation highlights a decline in LGBT characters for the 2023-2024 season. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/beware-americas-worst-drivers-can-be-found-in-these-cities-comprehensive-study-reveals\/\" title=\"Study reveals: America's worst drivers found in these cities.\">study\u2064 reveals<\/a> a decrease from 596 to \u2063468 characters, \u200cwith 36% \u200bnot returning. It also\u2062 reports a 44% drop in LGBT regulars on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nbc-ratings-worst-ever-for-2022-beijing-winter-games\/\" title=\"NBC Ratings Worst Ever for 2022 Beijing Winter Games\">primetime series<\/a>. Cable shows\u2063 also saw a 45% decrease in\u200c LGBT characters. GLAAD&#8217;s latest TV representation report \u2062notes \u2064a decrease \u2063in LGBT characters for \u2064the 2023-2024\u2064 season, dropping\u2064 from \u2062596 to \u2064468 characters, with 36% not \u200breturning. The report also highlights a 44% decrease in LGBT regulars on primetime series, and a 45% drop in LGBT characters on cable shows.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The advocacy group <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/glaad\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">GLAAD<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  (Gay &#038; Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) just released its 19th annual <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/glaad.org\/glaads-19th-where-we-are-on-tv-study-shows-decline-in-lgbtq-characters-and-stories-but-reinforces-opportunities-networks-streamers-have-to-grow-inclusive-programming-for-the-most-diverse-audiences-ever\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">report<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/lgbt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">LGBT<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  characters in television shows for the 2023-2024 season, noting a decrease in representation for the second year in a row.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u201cWhere We Are on TV\u201d report noted that 468 LGBT characters appeared on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/television\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">TV shows<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  last year compared to 596 the previous year. It found that 36% of those characters would not be returning for the upcoming season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">GLAAD reported 39 LGBT regulars on 64 primetime series, representing a decrease of 44% (31 characters) compared to the previous year. However, this reduction could be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gamestop-stock-plummets-but-reddit-rebellion-sparking-war-on-big-money-investors\/\" title=\"GameStop Stock Plummets But \u2018Reddit Rebellion\u2019 Sparking War On Big Money Investors\">partly due<\/a> to fewer primetime shows across the spectrum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On cable, the watchdog organization noted 77 LGBT characters, a 45% drop from last year. Those 77 will be further reduced next year as 38 will leave due to canceled shows or characters dying or being written off. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The GLAAD study also found that the number of transgender characters decreased from 32 to 24 for the 2023-2024 TV season. It also found 72 fewer \u201ccharacters of color,\u201d with 232 total. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cGLAAD\u2019s Where We Are on TV study found a number of concerning decreases across the board in the past two years, alongside a changing industry on all fronts which is seeing increased vertical integration and contracting budgets and staff,\u201d Megan Townsend, GLAAD senior director of entertainment research and analysis, said of the study results.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite recent decreases, LGBT representation has increased dramatically since the \u201cWhere We Are on TV\u201d report began. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/largest-protestant-adoption-agency-in-u-s-opens-to-lgbtq-couples\/\" title=\"Largest Protestant Adoption Agency In U.S. Opens To LGBTQ Couples\">organization reported<\/a> a 1276% increase, with 13.7x more LGBT characters on television compared to the 1996-97 season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1714129450076000&#038;usg=AOvVaw11MUL_oXewNl-yGfGqnuu8\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">GLAAD president and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis said networks should continue to cast LGBT characters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe know that LGBTQ-inclusive series can indeed be successful, as demonstrated by shows like \u2018The Last of Us\u2019 and \u2018Yellowjackets,\u2019\u201d Ellis said in response to the findings. \u201cWe know it is imperative for the queer community, especially transgender people, to see our lives reflected on screen to counteract the misinformation and harmful rhetoric going unchecked by politicians and journalists. And we know that younger audiences are hungry for shows that truly reflect the world around them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GLAAD&#8217;s 19th annual report on TV LGBT characters for 2023-2024 shows a decline in representation for the second consecutive year. The report titled &#8220;Where We Are on TV&#8221; highlights a decrease in the number of LGBT characters, with 468 featured in TV shows<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":2233628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/LGBT--scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2233627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/LGBT--scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2233627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2233628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2233627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2233627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2233627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}