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

ADAM LAMBERT TO OPEN THE 31ST ANNUAL GLAAD MEDIA AWARDS IN NEW YORK

February 13, 2020

GLAAD LAUNCHES ‘NEON’ - AN ONGOING DIGITAL CONTENT SERIES THAT AIMS TO INCREASE THE VISIBILITY OF BLACK LGBTQ PEOPLE

February 6, 2020

BEN PLATT TO PERFORM AT THE 31ST ANNUAL GLAAD MEDIA AWARDS IN NEW YORK

February 5, 2020

Free Reading Room Library in Rye, New York Indefinitely Postpones Drag Queen Story Hour After Backlash From Anti-LGBTQ Protesters

January 31, 2020

GLAAD CALLS OUT RAINBOW WAVE AT SUPER BOWL LIV AND CLAIMS VICTORY AGAINST AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION ONE MILLION MOMS ANTI-LGBT PROJECT

January 30, 2020

See all the latest on the Trump Accountability Project

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Introducing NEON, an ongoing digital content series that aims to increase the visibility of Black LGBTQ people and their allies.… @glaad • 06 Feb
ICYMI: It's moments like this that light the way to progress: "Since you’re a legal adult, we raised enough money for you t… @peoplefor • 15h
#VisibleOutOnTV premieres this weekend on @appletvplus. Thank you @iamwandasykes, @wcruz73 and the team for preserving… @sarahkateellis • 15 Feb
The news cycle can be a lot to take in each day...practicing self care is important...what is something you do to unwin… @MartiGCummings • 15 Feb
You can also call our entertainment team, we might be able to help find who you're looking for. 😊 https://t.co/OOLzw8Qz8H @glaad • 15 Feb
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 https://t.co/klgtxECqDd @theebillyporter • 14 Feb
For your long weekend viewing: #VisibleOutOnTV, a documentary series tracing the history of LGBTQ representation on… https://t.co/7UQ1CovEM7 @glaad • 14 Feb
Our love started 7 years ago with a meet-cute in the Kinsey Institute elevator. I was the first trans woman she had knowingl… @SLAwrites • 14 Feb
Thank you all for another great Friday Night Chat. Check the thread and keep adding your own wins and celebrating e… https://t.co/PPdXdLukVU @glaad • 14 Feb

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.