A new Change.org petition has been launched calling on the Indigo Girls and other performers at the 2013 Michigan Womyn's Music Festival to pull out and boycott the festival until they adopt a policy that would allow transgender women to attend.
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01/23/13
Out singer Chely Wright and wife Lauren Blitzer-Wright announce Chely's pregnancy. Chely's coming out documentary Wish Me Away is nominated for a GLAAD Media Award in Outstanding Documentary.
01/16/13
GLAAD announced the nominees for the 24th Annual GLAAD Media Awards. Twitter and Facebook are abuzz with reactions from celebs, showrunners, network execs, and journalists.
01/16/13
GLAAD announced the nominees for the 24th Annual GLAAD Media Awards today, putting a spotlight on an amazing year for LGBT stories in the media.
01/10/13
Out singer-songwriter Janis Ian, having just been nominated for a Grammy for the spoken word version of her 2008 autobiography, 'Society’s Child,' took a moment to answer a few of GLAAD's questions about coming out, her career, and what she’s planning next.
01/05/13
In the midst of a twitter feud last night, rapper Azealia Banks called blogger Perez Hilton “a messy fa**ot” after a heated back and forth, and defended herself by saying she has a different definition of the word. Unfortunately her personal definition doesn't negate the damage the word causes.
01/04/13
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.
01/02/13
Pop star Ke$ha is Seventeen magazine’s February cover girl, wherein she discusses being attracted to both men and women and anti-LGBT bullying.
12/31/12
Fundraising will always be a challenge for independent creators, but crowd sourced funding websites give projects that might have been overlooked in traditional channel a renewed chance for success, and have been particularly useful for many LGBT creators hoping to share their stories through independent media. Here is a list of 15 LGBT-inclusive fan-funded success stories from 2012.
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09/26/12
Adam Lambert hit Washington DC's 9:30 Club last night for a benefit show for Marylanders for Marriage Equality in support of Question 6, the referendum on Maryland's Civil Marriage Protection Act.
09/20/12
Adam Lambert, the glam-rocker who rose to prominence on television’s “American Idol,” is the latest celebrity to be enlisted by the campaign to uphold Maryland’s marriage law.
09/07/12
In the midst of targeting several celebrities in the audience, host Kevin Hart gave Frank Ocean props last night in his opening monologue for having the courage to come out of the closet:
09/04/12
Stevie Wonder has issued a statement clarifying comments he had made about the R&B singer Frank Ocean, who recen
08/27/12
Singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright wed his partner of five years, theater producer Jorn Weisbrodt, Thursday in a New York ceremony officiated by transgender artist Mx. Justin Vivian Bond.
08/23/12
For years, anti-gay epithets and sentiments in rap have largely been accepted, along with its frequent misogyny and violence, as part of the hip-hop culture – a culture that has been slow to change, even as gays enjoy more mainstream acceptance, particularly in entertainment. But while perhaps glacial, a shift appears to be on the horizon.
08/10/12
Ben Gibbard, the singer best known for his work with Death Cab for Cutie, has joined author Dave Eggers and music ma
08/07/12
“Are these songs about my relationship with a man? I say yeah.”
British-based, Lebanese-born pop singer Mika has confirmed he’s gay in an interview with Instinct magazine.