Overview
- GLAAD released its 14th annual film study on Thursday and found 46 of 225 films from the 10 largest distributors — 20.4% — included one or more LGBTQ characters.
- The 2025 share continues a slide from 2024 and 2023, and the total number of LGBTQ characters fell to 112 from 181 the year before.
- The report identified specific absences: zero transgender characters in the sampled slate and no LGBTQ characters in the 19 animated or family (PG and under) films.
- GLAAD highlighted that LGBTQ inclusion concentrated in horror and mid‑budget films, noting inclusive horror releases with public budget data returned more than twice their production costs.
- The study was retitled Where We Are in Film and revised its method to categorize characters by narrative significance, and GLAAD warned studios the decline could cost them younger audiences while outlets framed the findings along ideological lines.