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.
Film
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02/21/13
Each year the Berlin International Film Festival honors LGBT cinema with the Teddy Award. The award recognizes films and people who bring forward political and socially engaging themes that contribute to LGBT acceptance, social change and brings society closer to equality.
02/21/13
Award-winning journalist, author, and talk show host Anderson Cooper will be honored with the Vito Russo Award at the 24th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in New York.
02/15/13
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.
02/14/13
Ajita Wilson was an African-American trans women who in the 1970s and 80s starred in foreign films, and most notably, was JET magazine's first transgender beauty of the week.
02/13/13
The Huffington Post published a new interview with Laverne Cox who plays a trans woman in the GLAAD Media Award-nominated film Musical Chairs, and who received a GLAAD Media Award in 2009 for her participation in the VH1 reality show I Want to Work for Diddy.
02/08/13
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.
02/07/13
GLAAD interviews Chris Butler, the out writer and co-director of "ParaNorman," about including a gay teen in this PG-rated film.
02/06/13
After more than a week of reports that the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) might consider lifting their national ban on gay Scouts and leaders, the organization’s Board of Directors decided in a closed door meeting today to form a task force to study the issue, and will in the interim keep their discriminatory policy on the books -- preventing openly gay Scouts and Scout leaders from serving openly in the organization.
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04/16/12
The second of three award shows held this spring by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) to honor
04/06/12
“Bully,” the anti-bullying documentary, is unrated no longer. The Classification and Rating Administration said it gave the film a PG-13 rating on Thursday, after the Weinstein Company submitted a newly edited version of a film that had earlier been rated R because of strong language.
03/26/12
Los Angeles-based LGBT film festival Outfest today announced it would take over programming duties for the New York City-based Newfest, effectively combining the two into "one national arts organization."
03/26/12
The MPAA has decided to uphold the original "R" rating they gave to the movie "Bully," so The Weinstein company has instead decided to release the film in theaters unrated.
03/23/12
While riding the subway the other day, I was seated next to a young girl, maybe 8 or 9 years old, and her father.
03/19/12
The New York Times asked notable creators and performers to explain what films had the most profound effect on their own identities as LGBT people.
03/16/12
Parents and teenagers who appear in the documentary "Bully" pleaded Thursday with former Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), now the head of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), to change the film's R rating.