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

FDA REVISES ITS BAN ON GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN DONATING BLOOD FOLLOWING PUBLIC PRESSURE FROM GLAAD, MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS, ELECTED OFFICIALS, LGBTQ AMERICANS AND ALLIES

April 2, 2020

GLAAD RECEIVES CONFIRMATION THAT GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN ARE ALSO UNFAIRLY BANNED FROM DONATING PLASMA FOR EXPERIMENTAL COVID-19 TREATMENT

March 31, 2020

FDA “CONTINUING TO REEVALUATE” BAN ON BLOOD FROM GAY AND BI MEN AS SENATORS AND CELEBRITIES JOIN GLAAD IN CALLING FOR AN END TO THE BAN

March 27, 2020

MIKA TO PERFORM AT THE 31ST ANNUAL GLAAD MEDIA AWARDS IN LOS ANGELES, FORTUNE FEIMSTER TO HOST

March 5, 2020

BETTE MIDLER TO MAKE FIRST-TIME APPEARANCE AT THE GLAAD MEDIA AWARDS IN NEW YORK ON MARCH 19

February 27, 2020

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FaceTime or call your loved ones this weekend. ❤️ @glaad • 5h
Several #GLAADInstitute alumni have some suggestions for how to make sure you are taking care of yourself and your… https://t.co/vuy7PsFSxL @glaad • 10h
what's everyone watching this weekend? 📺 @glaad • 15h
Tell advertisers to pull their ads from @FoxNews due to the network’s damaging coverage of COVID-19 https://t.co/lIm1DsFELA @glaad • 18h
Thank you all for another amazing Friday Night Chat. Check the thread and remember to love and take care of each ot… https://t.co/Dk4bLvGh6k @glaad • 03 Apr
@glaad I caught up with my close friends through video call, haven't seen them in awhile especially during this current wo… @neferliIith • 03 Apr

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.