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

POSE, SCHITT’S CREEK, LIL NAS X, BOOKSMART, THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW, DOLLY PARTON’S HEARTSTRINGS, RAQUEL WILLIS AMONG WINNERS AT THE 31ST ANNUAL GLAAD MEDIA AWARDS

July 30, 2020

KANDI BURRUSS, JENNIFER GARNER, THEO GERMAINE, AUGUST GETTY, GIGI GORGEOUS GETTY & NATS GETTY, HARVEY GUILLÉN, DEMI LOVATO, LILLY SINGH, DARRYL STEPHENS, AND CHARLI XCX JOIN STAR-STUDDED LINEUP FOR VIRTUAL CEREMONY OF THE 31ST ANNUAL GLAAD MEDIA AWARDS

July 29, 2020

GLAAD and Gilead’s First National Survey on HIV Attitudes Finds 90% of Americans Agree Stigma Exists Around HIV

July 27, 2020

GLAAD’S 2020 STUDIO RESPONSIBILITY INDEX: HIGHEST RECORDED PERCENTAGE OF LGBTQ-INCLUSIVE FILMS BUT RACIAL DIVERSITY DROPS AND ZERO TRANSGENDER CHARACTERS APPEAR

July 16, 2020

GLAAD TO HOST VIRTUAL CEREMONY TO ANNOUNCE AWARD RECIPIENTS OF THE 31ST ANNUAL GLAAD MEDIA AWARDS ON THURSDAY, JULY 30 AT 8PM ET

July 9, 2020

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Refusing to offer mass and alienating LGBTQ Catholics and allies is the opposite of "pastoral care." It shows how "… https://t.co/eEs0gEcf4B @glaad • 0h
This is a big win for the amazing people over at @lambdalegal and all transgender students, building on SCOTUS case… https://t.co/IVbcpJChMi @glaad • 0h
There are 85 days to the election, and we need every LGBTQ person and our allies to take action. Text a former ro… https://t.co/WmAdBWDYmC @glaad • 6h
“The mission is to take people from the shadows of society who have dreams, who have ambitions like everyone else."… https://t.co/1c3zw9uRRn @glaad • 6h
Can you do me a favor? I want to keep offering our #GLAADinstitute Election Engagement course, and I'd love it if you could… @inlayterms • 22h
We're excited about the LGBTQ-inclusive storytelling in Disney Channel's new animated series #TheOwlHouse, which is… https://t.co/edfrC51sPZ @glaad • 09 Aug
The election is in 86 days! 🚨 Out of all eligible voters 18-24 years old, less than half were registered to vote i… https://t.co/N7BsY5H8jv @glaad • 09 Aug
The general election is in 87 days, but today is a primary in Hawaii. 🗳️ If you're in Hawaii, vote! 🗳️ If you ha… https://t.co/oyTGA3YKPs @glaad • 08 Aug

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.