Each 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.
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04/26/13
Filmmaker and Eagle Scout Todd Bieber is among the many people recently fighting for the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) to drop their anti-gay ban. With help from fellow filmmakers from The Onion and The Late Show, Bieber helped a troop of Scouts earn their Cinematography Merit Badge by working with them to produce a short film entitled "Attack of the Evil Mutant Scouts."
04/26/13
Each 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.
04/26/13
A new documentary based on David Johnson's book, The Lavender Scare, aims to shed light on the firing of thousands of LGBT employees in the 1950s by executive order under President Eisenhower. A period in our history worth revisiting as ENDA is reintroduced in Congress.
04/24/13
This week, Jennifer Lopez sat down with Entertainment Tonight to discuss ABC Family's new drama "The Fosters". Lopez discussed the themes of the show, and tearfully opened up about her lesbian aunt's recent passing and how their relationship influenced Lopez's decision to join "The Fosters" as an executive producer.
04/23/13
The New Normal creator Ryan Murphy and series stars Andrew Rannells, Justin Bartha, Georgia King and Jayson Blair were presented with the Outstanding Comedy Series award by Matt Bomer at the 24th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles on Saturday night. Murphy also accepted the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding TV Movie or Mini-Series for his FX show American Horror Story: Asylum.
04/23/13
GLAAD Media Awards nominee and frontwoman of the band Gossip, Beth Ditto, introduced singer Kelly Rowland at the 24th Annual GLAAD Media Awards on in Los Angeles on Saturday.
04/23/13
Actors Leonardo DiCaprio and GLAAD Vanguard Award recipient Charlize Theron presented the Stephen F. Kolzak Award to entertainment lawyer Steve Warren on Saturday at the 24th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles.
04/23/13
Betty White (Hot in Cleveland) and Alex Pettyfer (Magic Mike) took the stage at the GLAAD Media Awards
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04/18/13
As a young gay man, growing up in a small, conservative town in Montana wasn't easy. I knew I was different from my peers well before I understood what the word "gay" even meant. As a closeted teen, I experienced a significant amount of bullying everywhere I went: in the halls of my school, at high school football games and even in the church youth group.
04/17/13
Kyle Patrick Alvarez wrote and directed C.O.G., based on the David Sedaris autobiographical short story about a man who decides to immerse himself in the real world and goes off the grid following his graduation from Yale to work at an apple farm. Screen Media and Focus Features’ alt-distribution label Focus World plan a release in theaters and digital platforms this year.
04/17/13
The acclaimed motion picture, television and theater producing team of Craig Zadan and Neil Meron will return to produce the Oscars for a second time next year, Academy President Hawk Koch announced.
04/17/13
While award-winning Olympic diver Greg Louganis has made a jump back into the public spotlight as a diving coach on the ABC reality television show Splash, he is also being filmed for a new feature-length documentary, Back on Board, directed by Cheryl Furjanic and set for a 2014 release.
04/16/13
The 20-year-old son of basketball great Magic Johnson is surprised by the public interest in his being gay, something that he revealed to his supportive family several years ago.
04/15/13
The comedic pilot penned for HBO by Michael Lannan and starring Jonathan Groff, tells the story of three gay friends--an artist, a restaurateur and a web game developer--navigating the perils and pitfalls of life and love in San Francisco's trendy Mission District.
04/12/13
A new survey suggests that portrayals of LGBT characters have positively impacted the opinions of Americans on marriage equality.
04/10/13
Yesterday, all of the internet was ablaze with the news that Saga #12—Image Comics' sci-fi adventure drama by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples—was being blocked from iPads and iPhones by Apple. A new announcement from digital comics purveyor Comixology indicates that they, not Apple, were to blame. It also says that the comic will be available later today.