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How our media can better represent LGBTQ+ identity for Pride and beyond

While Pride celebrations play a key role in amplifying the contributions of the LGBTQ+ community, it’s important that the media and content creators come together and evaluate the work that still needs to be done to achieve social, economic, and legal equality.

Stock photo of an amazing cool black non-binary couple hugging in the city of Madrid.

Kike Arnaiz

Pride: beyond the visible spectrum

As our global understanding of identity has evolved, we have uncovered that identity is expressed along a fluid, evolving spectrum rather than a restrictive, polarized, and confined binary. And like the electromagnetic spectrum, there are frequencies and wavelengths of identity that are seen and unseen but always present.

Motherboards: Why technology and Mother’s Day images go hand in hand

Often missing from the gamut of Mother’s Day stock media is a vital lifeline that mothers rely on for community, support, and guidance – the internet and social media.

astronaut overseeing terraforming of the planet to modify its atmosphere to be similar to the environment of earth to make it habitable by earth-like life

Colin Anderson

The expanding universe of space imagery

Our interest in the cosmos is nothing new — we’ve been gazing up at the stars, pondering our place in the mysterious vastness of space for millennia.

Endless Summer: get back to the beach by going back in time

Remember summertime when you were a kid? The possibilities were endless and the days lasted a lifetime.

Stylish Young Couple In Dark Neon Lights

Javier Díez

Featured footage: neo-noir “Mysterious Lights” by Javier Diez

Productions like "Mysterious Lights" are a gold mine for creative projects that require stock footage. Video shoots with multiple clips and stills add flexibility to a director’s or editor’s options.

Photography

7 tips for creating LGBTQ+ photography and video content

Cinema Tigers

Portrait of confident Indigenous woman in office setting looking away from camera. She is wearing traditional styled beaded jewelry

Recognizing representation on National Indigenous Peoples Day

Celebrating Juneteenth

Adolescent/Skateboarder On The Streets Doing Tricks.

Leisure for liberty with Audrey Shtecinjo

Woman walking alone in windy salt flats.

Salt & solitude with Max Kütz

A paper house sits on top of a dark cloud floating in a dramatic sky. For many in our society a home of their own has become nothing more than a dream.

Catherine MacBride’s paper planet

California Coast Polaroid Instant Film of the California Coast

Lost in the American dream

Las Salinas de Torrevieja

Woman with medium length dark hair wearing all pink, poses with pink grapefruit halves infront of matching pink wall

Fruit eyes and other oddities

Northern Lights Taken while camping out in Iceland

How memorable can a stock background photo be?

dreamy landscapes captured on black and white ilford delta 400 film with red, green, and blue filters and later composited to represent the full color spectrum with any movement represented by discoloration

R-G-B trichromy with Young Kim

Turkey’s crazy colorful architecture by Yener Torun

Teenager Eating Ice Cream In An Urban Environment. A young woman with down syndrome eating ice cream

Everyday people: How to better represent disabilities in our media

Business Stock Photos That Don’t Suck

Women In Underwear Celebrate Their Bodies

Everyday bodies: how stock media can influence inclusivity

Marketing

Find Your Frequency Fund

The Find Your Frequency Fund is a giveaway intended to amplify LGBTQIA2S+ creator voices and bring more dream projects to life. Find instructions on how to enter and full contest rules.