The film industry has been hiring more gay actors in recent years. In 2018, of the 110 films from the biggest Hollywood studios, 20 featured LGBTQ+ characters. Showing an improvement compared to 2017, which only 14 films featured these characters.
But this is not just restricted to the mainstream, Brazilian actor Rico Marlon stated that the number of gay porn films has also increased significantly in the last year, and that more people are looking for this type of content.