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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.
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Trump Appoints Notorious Anti-LGBTQ Activist to White House Faith Advisory Council
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January 27, 2023POPE FRANCIS SAYS BEING GAY IS NOT A CRIME, GLAAD RESPONDS
January 25, 2023See all the latest on the Trump Accountability Project
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Hear from icon @theebillyporter about how his iconic Oscars look came to be.
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NEW: @yvettescorse & I wrote for @FastCompany about the shameful silence from Democratic leadership on the recent slew of b…
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The rise in efforts to ban specific topics from school libraries—largely books about LGBTQ people and race and raci… https://t.co/xCzOHCVMnL
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WATCH: Exclusive sneak peek of this week's episode of @RealFriendsMTV
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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
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Latest Updates
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.
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!”
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.