News & Rapid Response

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.

In The News

GLAAD’S WEBBY AWARD-WINNING DIGITAL VIDEO SERIES “CHANGEMAKERS” RETURNS; BLACK LGBTQ EXCELLENCE SHINES IN SEASON 2 TRAILER

January 31, 2023

BREAKING: FDA TO END DISCRIMINATORY SCREENING RULES FOR GAY AND BI MEN AFTER DECADES OF CAMPAIGNING FROM GLAAD AND LGBTQ ADVOCATES

January 27, 2023

POPE FRANCIS SAYS BEING GAY IS NOT A CRIME, GLAAD RESPONDS

January 25, 2023

GLAAD on Meta’s Reinstatement of Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram Accounts

January 25, 2023

GLAAD AND ULTRAVIOLET URGE EXPANDED LEGAL PROTECTIONS AND ACCESS FOR ALL REPRODUCTIVE HEALTHCARE AND GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ROE V WADE DECISION:

January 20, 2023

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"I want them to see me and just see someone who's not afraid of what people think. I've been afraid all my life, an… https://t.co/EdtrchKXJL @glaad • 11h
"Every young person should be able to find and read books that show they have a place in our world. It’s up to all… https://t.co/pIPaJOhvff @glaad • 13h
And the world was never the same. 🏁💕 https://t.co/hDxMJ1anzH @glaad • 14h
Hear from icon @theebillyporter about how his iconic Oscars look came to be. cc: @adage https://t.co/KPFa0MQbpm @glaad • 15h
NEW: @yvettescorse & I wrote for @FastCompany about the shameful silence from Democratic leadership on the recent slew of b… @evan_greer • 16h
The rise in efforts to ban specific topics from school libraries—largely books about LGBTQ people and race and raci… https://t.co/xCzOHCVMnL @glaad • 16h
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"Black queer people have always existed in history. We have and always will take up space, find and create joy in t… https://t.co/cKYAgkVtyh @glaad • 16h
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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.