In time for Pleasure Month, GLAAD has unveiled the newest knowledge for studio illustration of queer tales onscreen — and the most important strides are being made within the indie house.
Per the examine, A24 was the one distribution and manufacturing firm to obtain a “Good” grade within the 2025 version of the annual GLAAD Studio Duty Index (SRI) report. A24’s 2024 output additionally led to the corporate passing the $200 million mark on the home field workplace for the primary time in its historical past — which included grosses for its queer movies like “Love Lies Bleeding” and “I Noticed the TV Glow.”
GLAAD’s Studio Duty Index (SRI) examines movies launched within the 2024 calendar yr (from January 1 to December 31). This examine centered on analysis and evaluation for 10 high studio distributors, together with A24, Amazon, Apple TV+, Lionsgate, NBCUniversal, Netflix, Paramount International, Sony Footage Leisure, Disney, and Warner Bros. Discovery, plus any of their subsidiary distribution labels and majority-owned streaming providers. SRI appeared on the “amount, high quality, and variety” of LGBTQ characters onscreen, because the examine states. The SRI highlights movies that meet the essential customary for significant LGBTQ inclusion, as based mostly on the Vito Russo Take a look at, named after the queer icon and co-founder of GLAAD.
Whereas the general findings confirmed a lower in LGBTQ characters in movies (down total roughly 4 % from 27.3 % in 2023 to 23.6 % in 2024), A24 hit the mark. The studio distributed 16 complete movies in 2024, with 9 deemed by GLAAD as “inclusive.” These 9 embrace “Love Lies Bleeding,” “Queer,” “Problemista,” and “I Noticed the TV Glow.” The report additionally cited how the studio has a slew of extra LGBTQ-inclusive movies in 2025, similar to February launch “Parthenope,” and the upcoming “Mom Mary,” Sundance winner “Sorry, Child,” and Cannes hit “Pillion.”
A24 was adopted by Amazon, which had 25 complete movies launched, eight of which had been deemed LGBTQ-inclusive, like Megan Park’s “My Previous Ass,” starring Maisy Stella and Aubrey Plaza.
The report identified that lots of the standout titles all through the survey are mid-budget movies, having a manufacturing price range of between 15 and 90 million {dollars}.
Additionally cited within the report — for the primary time in 5 years, gender parity was reached amongst LGBTQ characters, with 50 % of LGBTQ characters being girls, 48 % males, and a pair of % nonbinary characters. Nevertheless, there have been solely two movies that GLAAD listed as having transgender characters, which is lower than one % of the 250 movies tracked. That’s the identical statistic as in final yr’s report.
“This yr’s findings are a wake-up name to the trade,” GLAAD president & CEO Sarah Kate Ellis mentioned in a press assertion. “At a time when LGBTQ persons are going through unprecedented assaults in politics and information media, movie have to be an area for visibility and fact. Illustration isn’t about checking a field — it’s about whose tales get instructed, whose lives are valued, and creating worlds that mirror our personal society as we speak. When achieved authentically, LGBTQ illustration builds viewers and buzz, whereas humanizing LGBTQ folks as these in energy are actively working to remove our humanity.”
Nick Adams, the vice chairman of GLAAD Media Institute, added, “It’s irritating and alarming to see the continued close to invisibility of transgender characters in movies from main studio distributors, and much more alarming to see cisgender males forged to play transgender girls and the inauthentic storytelling within the movies on this yr’s examine. As a result of so few trans tales are instructed, each has a major impression on tradition. At a time when transgender persons are underneath assault on many fronts, each the dearth of illustration and offensive caricatures of trans folks trigger actual hurt. There are movies from impartial distributors, and scripts but to be produced, that inform trans tales with coronary heart, nuance, and intention. As studios look in the direction of their upcoming slates, it’s important that they search out trans tales that can each entertain audiences and painting trans folks with authenticity and care. GLAAD is right here to be a useful resource and we will help you determine highly effective tales and storytellers.”
Megan Townsend, senior director of leisure analysis and evaluation at GLAAD, additionally mentioned, “The LGBTQ neighborhood is a robust and rising viewers with important shopping for energy and cultural clout that may drive success for a movie.”
In accordance with GLAAD, almost 1 in 10 American adults (9.3 %) determine as LGBTQ, with 1 in 5 Gen Z U.S. adults (23.1 %) figuring out as LGBTQ.