With many considering 2020 a year of poor LGBTQ representation across Netflix's platform, the brand is adapting the queer comic bookHeartstopperinto a TV series. And in a bid to bring diverse narratives front and center, it's being produced under the platform’s family banner.

Queer characters in media have come a long way since Ellen DeGeneres’ career was temporarily ruined because she, and her eponymous sitcom character, came out as a lesbian in 1997. But while the music industry and TV shows are now queerer than ever before, how do video games compare?

From magazine covers to small screens, media producers are striving to meet public demand for a level of diversity that reflects reality – but are their efforts enough? Canvas8 spoke to eight Americans about whether they believe mainstream media fairly represents all parts of society.

The Merriam-Webster dictionary definition of ’bisexual’ has been updated to be more inclusive. As awareness of sexuality and gender identities grows, language is evolving to enable clarity and understanding around sexual orientations, for those in the LGBTQ+ community and for everyone else.