Two instances of anti-transgender murders occurred in Orlando, Florida and Baltimore, Maryland over the last 24 hours. Both were transgender women of color. And when the media doesn't tell their story correctly, it perpetuates misleading stereotypes about transgender people.
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11/09/12
Congratulations to blogger, advocate, GLAAD consultant, and all-around (as the article calls him) "good guy" Jeremy Hooper, who has been named one of Instinct Magazine's "Leading Men of 2012."
11/08/12
Voters in New Hampshire elected the state's first openly transgender lawmaker, Stacie Laughton. She will serve Ward 4 in the New Hampshire House of Representatives.
11/07/12
GLAAD joins millions in celebrating the gains made for LGBT Americans in this election, including LGBT Latinos. Many LGBT Latinos and allies worked hard to ensure victory for equality.
11/07/12
San Francisco's health access program, Healthy SF, will remove exclusions that deny medically necessary transition-related care to transgender people.
11/07/12
Much of the excitement from Tuesday’s election focused on the marriage questions in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, and Washington, as well as Tammy Baldwin’s victory in Wisconsin. But LGBT candidates also ran in several races that garnered less national attention. The election of so many out LGBT candidates gives a new level of visibility to LGBT people across the country.
11/07/12
A truly incredible day for supporters of the LGBT community, as LGBT candidates and issues emerged victorious in state after state yesterday.
11/07/12
Just three years after voters in an off-year election vetoed a marriage equality law passed by elected officials, Maine voters today reversed course and their state joined fellow New England states Massachusetts, Connnecticut, Vermont and New Hampshire in recognizing full marriage equality.
11/06/12
A continued Obama presidency presumably means the administration will continue not to defend the so-called "Defense of Marriage Act" in courts of law. Presumably it will mean continued progress towards granting binational same-sex couples more protections against deportations.And President Obama's victory tonight signals to a nation of public figures that it's now truly politically "safe" to support LGBT Americans.
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03/12/13
A gay slur allegedly uttered by Assistant Police Chief Jimmy Jones during a retirement party at an Irish bar never happened, according to an Internal Affairs investigation.
03/12/13
Committees in the Minnesota House and Senate are poised to vote on — and likely pass — bills to legalize same-sex marriage Tuesday.
03/12/13
Hundreds of protesters demonstrated at the Texas Capitol on Monday, demanding equality for lesbians, gays and the transgendered, including the right to marry.
03/12/13
Lake County School Board members, in a narrow 3-2 vote, Monday night moved to keep middle-school campuses open to extracurricular clubs after two hours of comments mostly from supporters of a Gay-Straight Alliance at Carver Middle School in Leesburg.
03/12/13
A vocal opponent of gay marriage sparked an audible outcry on the Minnesota House floor Monday, March 11, when he used a procedural tactic to introduce a close friend who left the "gay lifestyle."
03/12/13
In a case that tests anti-discrimination protection for gays, a religious rights group told the New Mexico Supreme Court on Monday that a photographer who declined to shoot the commitment ceremony of a lesbian couple was exercising her rights to free speech and artistic freedom.
03/12/13
Representatives for the Westfield Galleria Mall in Roseville, Calif. formally apologized for a security guard who allegedly ejected a gay couple from the mall after they shared a kiss in public, according to Towleroad.
03/12/13
Civil unions for same-sex couples advanced in the Colorado House on Monday after sometimes heated and emotional arguments for the bill from gay Democratic lawmakers.