The Boy Scouts of America made history today by approving a resolution that will allow gay youth to participate. The Boy Scouts' ban on gay adults will remain intact. Many celebrities have taken to Twitter to share their excitement over this victory and continue to call for full inclusion of gay parents and leaders.
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04/01/13
In her audition for Univision beauty-pageant reality series Nuestra Belleza Latina, Karina Hermosillo came out as a proud and openly lesbian Latina. And live on-air on last night's episode Karina wept as she spoke on the phone with her partner.
03/29/13
VITO: A New Documentary by Jeffrey Schwarz, an HBO documentary film about the life of gay activist Vito Russo, is now available on DVD.
03/29/13
ELIXHER, award-winning online destination for black lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer women, is launching the new digital ELIXHER Magazine tomorrow night in Washington, D.C. with cover girl AzMarie Livingston.
03/29/13
Every week, The GLAAD Wrap brings you LGBT-related entertainment news highlights, fresh stuff to watch out for, and fun diversions to help you kick off the weekend.
03/28/13
The newest issue of TIME magazine features split-run covers with two committed same-sex couples sharing a kiss with the headline "Gay marriage already won. The Supreme Court hasn't made up its mind – but America has." The newsstand edition will be split between a male couple and a female couple, Sarah Kate and Kristen Ellis-Henderson, with whom GLAAD has worked closely.
03/28/13
Singer, songwriter, and stage performer Adam Lambert will receive the Davidson/Valentini Award at the 24th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in San Francisco, E! Online first reported today.
03/27/13
Madonna showed her support for gay and lesbian couples as the Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments on two cases about marriage equality.
03/27/13
Last night's episode of NBC's GLAAD Media Award-nominated comedy The New Normal saw former Eagle Scout David (Justin Bartha) and his fiancée Bryan (Andrew Rannells) taking on the Boy Scouts of America's ban on gay scouts and scout leaders.
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03/07/13
In January, the game developer BioWare announced that it would be adding same-sex relationships to their massively-multiplayer online role-playing game, Star Wars: The Old Republic.
03/07/13
Valerie Harper, the actress best known for playing Rhoda Morgenstern on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and her own spinoff, “Rhoda,” has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer.
03/06/13
Fox 2000 is developing an English-language remake of the GLAAD Media Award-nominated Swedish film 'Patrik, Age 1.5' about a gay couple who are mistakenly given a teenager by their adoption agency.
03/06/13
The comic book artist due to work on the latest Superman series has decided to quit over the controversy of hiring an anti-gay campaigner to write the stories.
03/05/13
Netflix's high-cost, highly watched House of Cards blazed a new trail for mass-market, internet-based television, but Kevin Spacey's political blockbuster could have come from any of the traditional US networks. Not so far way on the web, a clutch of series aimed at the gay community – filmed for a sliver of the $100m House of Cards budget yet still attracting a respectable audience – are showing up the reluctance of mainstream broadcasters in the US to stray far from the middle of the road.
03/05/13
Hollywood.com examines how the anti-gay activism of author Orson Scott Card may pose a significant problem for the Ender's Game film adaptation set for release this fall.
03/05/13
The brouhaha surrounding Orson Scott Card's involvement with a new Superman comic project has already caused one major change. Due to the media attention surrounding the science-fiction writer and his story in the forthcoming Adventures of Superman, artist Chris Sprouse — who was to illustrate a tale by Card and Aaron Johnston — has departed from the book, according to DC Comics.
03/05/13
Pop music senstation Carly Rae Jepsen announced today that she will withdraw as headliner of the 2013 National Scout Jamboree, following a campaign launched by GLAAD and Eagle Scout Derek Nance.