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Working with journalists and news outlets in print, broadcast, and online, our team serves as a resource to newsmakers and works to ensure that the news media is accurately and fairly representing LGBTQ people in its reporting.

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32ND ANNUAL GLAAD MEDIA AWARDS RECIPIENTS INCLUDE: DISCLOSURE, SCHITT’S CREEK, SAM SMITH, CHIKA, HAPPIEST SEASON, I MAY DESTROY YOU, STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, THE BOYS IN THE BAND, VENENO, WE’RE HERE, AND THE NOT-TOO-LATE SHOW WITH ELMO

April 8, 2021

CHIKA, SABRINA CARPENTER, AND REBECCA BLACK TO PERFORM AT THE 32ND ANNUAL GLAAD MEDIA AWARDS ON APRIL 8

April 1, 2021

OVER 465 FEMINIST LEADERS SIGN OPEN LETTER STANDING IN SOLIDARITY WITH TRANSGENDER WOMEN AND GIRLS IN HONOR OF WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH AND TRANSGENDER DAY OF VISIBILITY

March 31, 2021

GLAAD CONGRATULATES DR. RACHEL LEVINE ON HER CONFIRMATION AS ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR HEALTH, THE NATION'S FIRST OUT TRANSGENDER SENATE-CONFIRMED NOMINEE

March 24, 2021

"GLEE" CAST TO REUNITE AT THE 32ND ANNUAL GLAAD MEDIA AWARDS TO HONOR LGBTQ TEENS AND PAY TRIBUTE TO THE LEGACY OF THE LATE NAYA RIVERA’S CHARACTER SANTANA LOPEZ

March 24, 2021

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Black trans advocacy should always involve the everyday Black trans woman/man. Not just the ones in mainstream. We can’t… @SerenaSonoma • 0h
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.@Lavernecox, @itsjojosiwa, @SterlingKBrown, @ddlovato, @Ashlyn_Harris, @alikrieger and more celebrities used their… https://t.co/4OoPsIWmga @glaad • 0h
Watch @SabrinaAnnLynn's powerful #GLAADawards performance from last week https://t.co/jv98rBvsUP @glaad • 0h
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Veneno!!! https://t.co/tX8QGrYrvK @Witchy_99 • 1h
wish it was the #GLAADawards every night @glaad • 1h
“When we’re on the field, my teammates, they just see me as me. They see me as a teammate who they’re going to play… https://t.co/ODPHbpFHo2 @glaad • 1h

Latest Updates

Donald Trump

Latest Update: August 14, 2019
08.14.19 - The Trump Administration revealed they plan to grant federal contractors the ability to use "religious exemptions" as an excuse to discriminate against LGBTQ Americans at the workplace.  08.14.19 - The Trump Administration urged the Equal Employment Oppportunity Commission (EEOC) to reverse their Obama-era policy of providing workplace protections for LGBTQ Americans. The request comes weeks before oral arguments begin at the U.S. Supreme Court on October 8. 

Mike Pence

Latest Update: October 16, 2017
-- 10.16.17 - In a profile on Vice President Mike Pence that ran in the New Yorker, President Trump reportedly joked of Pence when asked about LGBTQ rights: “Don’t ask that guy—he wants to hang them all!”

Kellyanne Conway

Latest Update: October 16, 2017
-- 10.13.17 - Along with President Trump, Kellyanne Conway spoke at the Family Reseach Council's Values Voter Summit, a convening of fringe groups united around discrimination against LGBTQ people.