Prof. Dr. Skadi Loist
Kat [Katharina] Voß
Kai Kreuser
Patrícia Bateira a.k.a. NATürlich
Niklas Bauer
Patrick Hess
Rüdiger Böss
Kai S. Pieck
Björn Koll
Julia Fuhr Mann
Tetyana Gryniva
Katharina Hackhausen
Benedikt Langmantl
Rico Mahel
Lukas Sauer
Cosma Dujat
Georgine Kellermann
Alexander Tschernek
Ralf König
Jörg Dinkel
Andreas Korn
Christian Bräuer
Joris Bas Backer
Julius Kraft
Steffen Recks
Carmen Yasemin Ipek
Joyce V. Newrzella
Jess Schönrock
Marc Iven
Enno Müller-Stephan
Susanne Foidl
Morten Bäcker
Marcel Kahl
Lori Baldwin
Anna Lucia Gustmann
Niklas Wirth
Susann S. Reck
Henri Tomic
Felix Martin
Sten Kuth
Dominik Ruder
Thorben Zoeger
Olaf Heilemann
Christian Bojidar
Lutz Stoever
Richard Kranzin
Stephan Kämpf
Tessa Hart
Anne Katz
Lena Dirscherl
Nils „Niilo“ Sommer
Marvin Wittiber
Martin Tietjen
Mehmet Sözer
Ulrich Meinhard
Mira Sanjana Sharma
Jobst Knigge
Matthias Beier
Sabine Bernardi
Tajo Hurrle
Patrick Heidmann
Melina Seiler
Stefan Mey
Martin Schacht
Nadja Brendel
Bettina Böttinger
Andrea Schütte
Roman Shamov
Karsten Aurich
Fatih Abay
Henrik Meyer
Katharina Lüdin
Sascha Eisenhut
Annie Heger
Laura Tamoj
Stefan Nickel
Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss
Rumo Wehrli
Sylva Häutle
Miku Sophie Kühmel
Sven Serkis
Ingo Raabe
Kerstin Polte
Johanna Steiner
Sarah Laminger
Maurizio Onano
Barbie Breakout
Philip Jestädt
Andrea Schmidt
Dirk Fehrecke
Oliver Donks
Theresia Reinhold
Monika Freinberger
Raoul Mewes
Giovanni Arvaneh
Vanessa Most
Maja Costa
Alexander Prince Osei
Max Nicolai Appenroth
Bendix Bauer
Anatole-Maël Powilleit
Oska Borcherding
Luisa Teruel Delgado
Axel Schock
Daniel-Frantisek Kamen
Sergej Gößner
Toby Chlosta
Alexander Pfeuffer
Dr. Samuel Jefferson
Tim Lienhard
Jörg Brückner
Korbinian Häutle
Rolf Grabner
Lars von Schuckmann
Gabriel Munoz Munoz
Paula Knüpling
Kevin Silvergieter
Jasha Eliah Deppe
Jules* Elting
Eva Medusa Gühne
Stefan Hochgesand
Alexander Masche
Florian Kamhuber
Nikolai Will
Nicola-Rabea Langrzik
Nico Hofmann
Frederik Busch
Luca Renner
Daniel Baaden
Felicitas Heck
Rüdiger Bach
Denis “Marshall” Ölmez
Ben Boehm
Marco Kreuzpaintner
Julian Mars
Zara Zandieh
Anna Wollner
Benjamin Kelm
Susann Lange
Caspar Weimann
Lara Keilbart
Philipp Leinenbach
Ariel Nil Levy
Dr. Patrick Diemling
Lili Krasteva
Naomi Beukes-Meyer
Sarnt Utamachote
Maria Koehne
Tilmann Warnecke
Marcel Kowalewski
Ulrich Matthes
Peter Schulze
Eva Maria Jost
Micha Schulze
Axel Bach
Jördis Trauer
Benedikt Zeitner
Franziska Schiedung
Dr. Andreas Bareiss
Lars Montag
Jan Trautmann
Peter Geisberg
Michaela Kis
Sophie de Frenne
Michael Gugel
Andreas Berg
Christian Schäfer
Kathy Peters
Florian von Bornstädt
Sophie Averkamp
Michael Rühl
Johannes Maria Schmit
Ilonka Petruschka
Christian Hug
Sibylle Berg
Julius Feldmeier
Jan Krüger
Dr. Julia Shaw
Florens Huhn
Richard Gonlag
Martin E. Schleker
Andreas Hammer
Frank Brenner
Jan-Peter Horstmann
Marina Prados i Vila
André Hansen
Milena Arne Schedle
Jean Denis Rômer
Katrin Schüler-Springorum
Bernd von Fehrn
Heinrich Horwitz
Florian Gärtner
Joschla M. Weiß
Franzis Kabisch
Johanna Jackie Baier
Jennifer Fritz
Toni Karat
Jonas Breitstadt
Nestor Perez aka Stor Dubiné
Dirk Kummer
Yun Huang
Alex Lee
Finn Nachfolger
Julia Jamie Sparrow
Melissa Byrne
Bastian Trost
Thomas Disch
Johannes Rosenstein
Lan Rommel
Torsten Lenkeit
Danja Prahl
Aline Oliveira
Marcus Krone
Til Schindler
Gabriele Bischoff
Karen Suender
Armin Wühle
Jörn Grosse
Roland Ascheid
Zacker
Rolf Vogl
Benjamin Gutsche
Mario Canedo
Paul Spittler
Else Buschheuer
Thomas Schwank
Rogier Hardeman
Marcus Kreuz
Sarah Claire Wray
Paul Furtwängler
LCavaliero Mann
Fabian Schrader
Sonja Hilberger
Elias Asbai
Matthijs Wouter Knol
Dan Dansen
Gaullo
Antonia Pepita Giesler
Joshua Seelenbinder
Marlene Pardeller
Samuel Bereuther
Anne Roemeth
Markus Schroth
Nora Eckert
Uli Decker
Oliver Erdmann
Ruben Steingrüber
Suki Maria Roessel
Stephan Phin Spielhoff
Simon Niemann
Patricia Hempel
Patrick Schuckmann
Chris Miera
Jim Baker
Leonie Stäblein
Donnie Corvalan Gonzalez
Aşkın-Hayat Doğan
Christoph Gérard Stein
JJ Herdegen
André Kraft
Markus Olpp
Jemima Milano
Łukasz Majcher
Benjamin Chimoy
Siegfried Wagner
Jill Weller
Nadine Rendl
Katja Anton Cronauer
Jonathan Wooldridge
Evelyn Rack
Michèle Lichtenstein
Gustav Peter Wöhler
Yony Leyser
Mathias Furch
Sogol Faghani
Frank Habatsch
Utz Weber
Jakob M. Erwa
Samu/elle Striewski
Merve Aksoy
Petra Niermeier
Søren Schumann
Donat Blum
Luise Helm
Erwin Aljukić
Stefan Reis
Therese Koppe
Karen-Susan Fessel
Constantin Lücke
Nicolas Dinkel
Jens Schadendorf
Melissa Remington
Juliane Rump
Illi Anna Heger
Lutz Scheffer
Kevin Junk
Jonas Gross
Dieter Rita Scholl
Gregor Schmidinger
Stephan Bürgi
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Sascha Thürmann
Oliver Broumis
Noah Anderson
Christian Senger
River Matzke
Wieland Speck
Thomas Petersen
Angelina Maccarone
René Cheng
Ulrich Höcherl
Claudia Mattai del Moro
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Francesco Mincione Scharrnbeck
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Eybe Ahlers
Philipp Stendebach
Frank Biehler
Manuel Finke
Simon Axolotl Jensen
Lucy Ribeiro
Felix Fichtner
Tavo Ruiz
Lukas Hansen
Martin Bruchmann
Michael G. Meyer
Graziella Tomasi
Dominik Djialeu
Dr. Florian Krauß
Dr. phil. Alexander Graeff
Klaus Nierhoff
Andreas Klaeui
Matthias Freihof
Anja Gurres
Barbara Wallbraun
Vivien Valentiner
Dr. Michaela Dudley
Tim-Fabian Hoffmann
Claudia Artner
Monty Arnold
Fionna Frank
Alaz Burak Şen
Sookee
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Daniel Kulle
Jozo Jurič
Maik Schurkus
Lion H. Lau
Markus Tomczyk
Kay Ramczyk
Linus Giese
Dominik Bliefert
Marvin Wiechert
Dörthe Strathausen †
Stephan Hellweg
Jan Künemund
Mario Högemann
Patrick Christopher Ehler
Max Weiland
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Pia Zessin
Christian Alfred Kahrer
Dennis Todorovic
Miriam Dehne
Charlotte Siebenrock
Aviran Edri
Amor Schumacher
Can Fischer
Alexandre Powelz
Marie-Luise Wolf
Marcus Jürgen Zollfrank
Monika Treut
Heiko Zupke
Kriss Rudolph
Dr. Martin Ganguly
Ingo Rasper
Karen “Kalli” Brunnbauer
Linda-Morena Lysenko
Bianca Kriel
Béla Belissima
Leroy Leone
Dirk Ludigs
Patrick Rupprecht
Jonathan Berlin
Dr. phil. in art. Christian Bettges
Florian Appelius
Driton Sadiku
Laurean Wagner
Lutz Schmökel
Dörte Ulka Engelkes
Matthieu Svetchine
Helge Lodder
Zero Pilnik
Benedict Weskott
Sophie Reichert
Julz Ritschel
Dr. Andy Machals
Maximilian Moll
Marco Kreuzer
Popo Fan
Sophia Kälble
Christos Acrivulis
Lina Zaraket
Andrim Emini
Nadine Lange
Alexander Seib
Christian Dunker
Markus Bechtold
Ricarda Hofmann
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Sven Rebel
Shamila Lengsfeld
Christine Guenther

About us 

11%

of the people living in Germany refer to themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual, pan-/omnisexual asexual or other.
That’s according to IPSOS’s “LGBT+ Pride 2021 Global Survey“. And according to the same study, 3% of people in Germany describe their gender identity as trans, non-binary / non-conforming / genderfluid or “in another way”. This puts Germany, along with Sweden, at the top of the 27 countries surveyed.

The media in no way represent that!

The survey “Vielfalt im Film” (“Diversity in Film”), co-initiated by the Queer Media Society in 2019 and supported by a broad alliance of industry representatives, associations and initiatives of marginalized groups, takes a first and important step towards a nationwide survey on diversity and discrimination experiences of filmmakers in front of and behind the camera. The first results have now been published.

In October 2021, the University of Rostock published the “Visibility and Diversity” progress study. The head of the study, Prof. Dr. Elizabeth Prommer, summed up: “The results show that our television programming does not yet reflect the diversity of the population.” For queer representation, it is noted that “only about 2 percent of the people covered during the observation period were not heterosexual.” Visible characters were only homosexual (0.9%) and bisexual (1.3%). In 27.4%, sexual orientation was “not discernible.”

There are no representative surveys regarding the music, advertising and games industry, the print media, publishing and stage entertainment in German speaking regions yet.

This has to change!

What
we
want

More LGBTTIQ*-topics and players in the media by taking into consideration a code of practice regarding the topics:

  • gender
  • gender transition
  • sexual identity and orientation
  • ethnic origin
  • disability/impairment
  • body shape/body positivity
  • diversity of age
  • religion and world view
  • socioeconomic and cultural background

The promotion of a diverse and equality-oriented working environment in media companies and institutions

To promote
visibility and representation
of queer people
and their relation- and partnerships.

The goal is to enable a minority to proportionately be part of decision making about personnel decisions, contents and topics and in the media to portray the reality of life.
Only by being present in everyday working life and making it visible in the media beyond stereotypical depictions can it be possible to successfully bring other lifeworlds closer to the heteronormalized working environment and audience and bring about awareness, knowledge and social respect, as well as keeping it.

We therefore demand, that
10% of the regular output
of all media productions
cover LGBTTIQ* contents and characters.

In human resource management of media companies – not only regarding the creative crew – concepts of diversity must be introduced or refined and full-time diversity officers must be nominated.

UIn order to enforce our demands on a personnel level, it is however essential that as many as possible queer people come out themselves.
We ask all media professionals to do this!

The structural goal of the QMS is to provide the following media sections:

ADVERTISING
FILM / TV / WEB / RADIO (fictional/non-fictional)
GAMES
JOURNALISM (text/image)
LITERATURE / GRAPHIC NOVEL / PUBLISHING
MUSIC
STAGE / EVENT

Working groups and individuals from these network sections develop and offer creative, practical suggestions, handouts and workshops for queer visibility and awareness.

Networking is important! The feedback on the founding of the QMS even more proved how important the need for personal and professional networking and exchange is​​​. But we are neither an agency for queer media professionals nor a job board, but an activist initiative.

Find out who already is part of our network in the German version.

Become
a networker

Are you interested in our work or our topics or do you want to get actively involved?

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