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Netflix Tops GLAAD Media Awards List with 26 Nominations

Netflix topped the list of media award nominations announced Thursday by the LGBTQ advocacy group GLAAD with 26, including “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” for outstanding film; “Disclosure” for outstanding documentary; and “The Umbrella Academy” for outstanding drama series. HBO Max followed with nine nominations, and Amazon, Hulu and HBO each received four. The Hallmark Channel received its first nomination for “The Christmas House,” the network’s first holiday movie featuring a gay lead character. GLAAD has honored filmmakers, musicians, journalists and other media creators for three decades for fair, accurate and inclusive representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people on screen. […]

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Presence vs. Representation: Report Breaks Down LGBTQ Visibility on TV

From Billy Porter in “Pose” to Dan Levy in “Schitt’s Creek” and Elliot Page in “Umbrella Academy,” LGBTQ people have been increasingly seeing themselves and their stories represented and celebrated on television. But there is still room for improvement, according to Nielsen’s “Being Seen on Screen: Diverse Representation & Inclusion on TV” report. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people make up an estimated 4.5 percent of the U.S. population, and, according to Nielsen’s inaugural report, they were 6.7 percent of the top 10 recurring cast members in the top 300 programs on broadcast, cable and streaming platforms in 2019. The report also […]