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.
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07/25/12
The New York Times to meet with GLAAD, trans community to address coverage of trans lives | 07/25/12
The New York Times has invited GLAAD and trans community members to meet in order to speak about story ideas, and ways to improve the paper's coverage of the transgender community.
07/23/12
The International AIDS Conference kicked-off over the weekend. More than 30,000 people are expected to gather in our nation's capital.
07/19/12
The first couple to be married on a military base met at a Baptist church, but some chaplains are coming under fire for attending the wedding.
07/19/12
This morning the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced its 2012 Primetime Emmys nominees and included several nods for inclusive series and characters, as well as out LGBT actors.
07/16/12
Sunday evening AMC dipped its toes in the reality genre by premiering Small Town Security, an unscripted look at a small town family-owned security and investigation company. Under the guidance of Joan “The Chief” Koplan and her beloved Chihuahua Lambchop the peculiar but endearing crew of JJK Security gives Small Town Security viewers a unique perspective of life in the rural community of Ringgold, GA.
07/13/12
Not too long ago GLAAD blog readers were introduced to Hello Forever, a film starring transgender model and actress Isis King about Filipina women trying to overcome obstacles and find a way out of poverty. The filmmakers took to Kickstater in hopes to raise funds to cover post-production costs and festival submission fees. With your help they met their goal, and Isis shared her excitement on Twitter.
07/13/12
A new report has been released that sheds light on youth who are LGBT and homeless, and GLAAD is calling on the media to bring more attention to this epidemic, the unique problems that such teens and young adults face, and potential solutions, as outlined in the report.
07/13/12
The #SupportCeCe campaign announces a new effort to collect books for CeCe McDonald. Show support.
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03/05/13
Every other Tuesday, Steven Petrow, the author of “Steven Petrow’s Complete Gay & Lesbian Manners,” (Workman, 2011), addresses questions about gay and straight etiquette for a boomer-age audience. This question, slightly edited, is from the AIDS activist Spencer Cox, who died in December.
03/05/13
Police are looking for four men they believe sexually assaulted a transgender woman at gunpoint in a Midtown hotel early Thursday morning.
03/05/13
Lawmakers are considering a measure to include transgender persons to the list of protected identities in Nevada's hate crime statute.
03/05/13
A California lawmaker has introduced legislation aimed at guaranteeing transgender students the right to use public school restrooms and participate on the sports teams that correspond with their expressed genders.
03/04/13
Four police officers were reprimanded this week for improperly accessing the personal information of a former colleague who transitioned from a woman to a man.
03/04/13
Medford City Councilor Robert Penta raised concerns Tuesday over recent changes that govern how public schools in Massachusetts are to receive transgender students.
03/04/13
A transgender woman says she was kicked out of a local spa. But the spa tells a different story.
03/01/13
On February 1, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture (SRT) issued a report on abusive practices in health care settings that has important implications for LGBT people and people with intersex conditions.