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

PROCTER & GAMBLE AND GLAAD STUDY: EXPOSURE TO LGBTQ REPRESENTATION IN MEDIA AND ADVERTISING LEADS TO GREATER ACCEPTANCE OF THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY

May 27, 2020

GLAAD’S “TOGETHER IN PRIDE: YOU ARE NOT ALONE,” HIGHLIGHTS THE LGBTQ RESPONSE TO COVID-19 AND RAISES OVER $225,000 FOR CENTERLINK AND LOCAL LGBTQ CENTERS

April 26, 2020

GLAAD CALLS OUT FDA FOR “WORKING TO COMMENCE A PILOT STUDY” TO END BAN ON BLOOD AND PLASMA FROM GAY AND BI MEN

April 24, 2020

BILLY PORTER, PETE & CHASTEN BUTTIGIEG, ROSIE O’DONNELL, JONATHAN VAN NESS, BRIAN MICHAEL SMITH, ROSS MATHEWS, TYLER OAKLEY, AND LGBTQ FRONT-LINE WORKERS TO JOIN “TOGETHER IN PRIDE: YOU ARE NOT ALONE,” GLAAD’S LIVESTREAM EVENT

April 23, 2020

GLAAD & LITTLE BEE BOOKS’ CHILDREN’S TITLE, PRINCE & KNIGHT, NAMED 5TH MOST CHALLENGED BOOK OF THE YEAR ACCORDING TO AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ANNUAL LIST

April 20, 2020

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A young Black trans woman named #IyannaDior was brutally attacked by a group of mostly Black cis men in Minneapolis last night… @ArtsyQ2 • 17h
Sharing these resources to Twitter because it's so important that people know how they can stay engaged even if they canno… @osearheghan • 2h
i’m so mad at everyone sharing that video of iyanna dior being brutalized by those cis men. i shouldn’t have to see that. i… @msevareign • 6h
The brutal attack of #IyannaDior is a disturbing reminder of the epidemic of violence facing Black trans women acro… https://t.co/HhhXgG33hB @glaad • 1h

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.