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 JOINS PUERTO RICO PARA TOD@S IN CALLING OUT DANGEROUS TREND OF ANTI-TRANS VIOLENCE IN PUERTO RICO

January 15, 2021

GLAAD’S WHERE WE ARE ON TV 2020-2021 REPORT: DESPITE TUMULTUOUS YEAR IN TELEVISION, LGBTQ REPRESENTATION HOLDS STEADY

January 14, 2021

40 NATIONAL LGBTQ ORGANIZATIONS JOIN TOGETHER IN CALL FOR “IMMEDIATE AND UNEQUIVOCAL REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES”

January 11, 2021

STATEMENT FROM GLAAD PRESIDENT AND CEO SARAH KATE ELLIS REGARDING TWITTER’S MOVE TO BAN DONALD TRUMP FROM ITS PLATFORM PERMANENTLY

January 8, 2021

STATEMENT FROM GLAAD PRESIDENT AND CEO SARAH KATE ELLIS DEMANDING TWITTER, FACEBOOK, AND INSTAGRAM PERMANENTLY BAN DONALD TRUMP FROM THE PLATFORMS

January 7, 2021

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The GLAAD Wrap: @USvsBillie and The World to Come new trailers, new music videos from @tracelysette, @ShamirBailey,… https://t.co/iWhP7CdeTT @glaad • 16 Jan
Congratulations to all the honorees! The #BelovedCommunity Awards are happening now. https://t.co/io01s1oCGG @glaad • 16 Jan
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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.