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GLAAD at Work: Continuing to educate journalists about fair coverage of LGBT people
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
4:32pm

The San Diego Press Club will be hosting its first-ever panel discussion addressing the media coverage of the LGBT community, with GLAAD's own Monica Trasandes as a featured panelist.

12/03/09
The Washington Post Misses the Mark Again in Its Profile of Anti-LGBT Archbishop Donald Wuerl | 12/03/09

Just last month,

12/03/09
Georgia Elects Nation’s First Openly Lesbian African-American State Lawmaker | 12/03/09

12/02/09
NY Senate Rejects Marriage Protections for Same-Sex Couples | 12/02/09

The New York state Senate on Wednesday rejected a bill that would extend marriage protections to same-sex couples.

12/02/09
Protesters Respond to Vallejo Mayor’s Anti-LGBT Remarks in Northern California | 12/02/09

12/01/09
UPDATE: Marriage Bill Passes First Vote in D.C. | 12/01/09

11/24/09
Jason Mattison, African American Gay Teen Murdered | 11/24/09

11/20/09
Media Focuses on Missing African-American Lesbian, Mitrice Richardson | 11/20/09

11/19/09
Art and Celebrities Shined at GLAAD’s 8th Annual OUTAuction NYC | 11/19/09

A huge thank you to everyone who attended the 8th Annual OUTAuction presented by Bud Light in New York City

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Gay-Straight Alliance at Hampton, PA spreads awareness, tolerance
01/03/13

For two years, Hampton High School student Ally Rosenberger was quiet. But this year, she decided she would not be quiet about her own feelings any longer, and she was going to reach out to other students so they wouldn't have to be quiet either.

Chicago couple eagerly awaits Illinois marriage equality vote
01/03/13

Theresa Volpe and Mercedes Santos' 8-year-old daughter, Ava, has learned about the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s in school.

Advocate Steven Goldstein To Give Up Helm Of New Jersey Gay Rights Group
01/03/13

Gay rights activist Steven Goldstein is leaving his post at the helm of Garden State Equality, which he founded more than eight years ago.

Thursday vote sought for Illinois marriage equality law
01/03/13

If anyone thought gay marriage legislation would pass easily in Illinois, the initial hiccup Wednesday in the state Senate illustrated how hard-fought the issue is likely to be every step of the way.

Op Ed: The Missing Trans Girl and What’s (Not) Being Done
01/02/13

There’s a particularly cynical exchange in an episode of the cult HBO series “The Wire” wherein a couple of homicide detectives remark upon how little priority is being given to the unsolved murders of several poor African-Americans.

Trans NH rep-elect withdraws
01/02/13

A New Hampshire Democrat who in November became the first openly transgender person elected to a state legislature in the country announced on Wednesday she has ended her campaign to run for the state House of Representatives.

Connecticut Gov. names first openly gay justice to high court
01/02/13

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, who took office two years ago pledging to make the courts as diverse as Connecticut's society, today nominated Andrew J. McDonald as the first openly gay justice of the state Supreme Court.

Illinois Lt. Gov., TV star support families formed by marriage equality
01/02/13

Jesse Tyler Ferguson, a star of ABC’s “Modern Family,” joined Lt. Governor Sheila Simon this morning in Chicago to advocate for gay marriage in Illinois.

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