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

A DANGEROUS AMERICA: GLAAD’S ANNUAL ACCELERATING ACCEPTANCE STUDY REVEALS HIGH SUPPORT FOR EQUALITY AS LGBTQ AMERICANS FACE RISING RATES OF VIOLENCE AND HARMFUL LEGISLATION

June 1, 2023

OVER 100 LEADING LGBTQ+ ADVOCACY ORGANIZATIONS AND ALLIES CALL ON TARGET AND BUSINESS COMMUNITY TO REJECT COORDINATED, EXTREMIST ANTI-LGBTQ+ ATTACKS

May 31, 2023

GLAAD RESPONDS TO ATTACKS ON GLSEN

May 27, 2023

GLAAD RESPONDS TO THE NORTH FACE'S DECISION TO CONTINUE PRIDE CAMPAIGN AFTER FACING CALLS FROM EXTREMISTS TO BOYCOTT

May 26, 2023

LEADING LGBTQ+ ADVOCACY ORGANIZATIONS RAISE THE ALARM TO BUSINESS COMMUNITY ON COORDINATED ANTI-LGBTQ+ ATTACKS; CALL ON TARGET TO LEAD

May 25, 2023

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Believe in yourself right from the start. Believe in the magic, it’s there in your heart! https://t.co/yUpCUY9SNH @glaad • 2h
Queer joy personified. We’re here for it! 🌈 https://t.co/OirtWo9cPa @glaad • 2h
Yasssss!! She better serve the children!! https://t.co/2TqxHA9jUB @glaad • 2h
Sure did! And we are equally as proud! 🏳️‍⚧️ https://t.co/tg8eCQkKUP @glaad • 3h
This is incredible! As long as there’s breath in our bodies, we still have a chance to live out our dreams. https://t.co/tyysmWVYt6 @glaad • 3h
Love it! Keep going until the job is done. 🌈 https://t.co/6fo0ErbgB1 @glaad • 3h
👋 It's time for our Friday Night Chat. It's been a week. A lot is going on in the news that doesn’t center joy, so… https://t.co/sSpM4nNPtW @glaad • 3h
GLAAD guest contributor @etorremolina shares five essential LGBTQ+ projects from Latin America you'll definitely wa… https://t.co/6l4bDUckCW @glaad • 5h
Target can move #Pride displays to the back of some stores and Bud Light can change plans for social media campaigns, b… @sarahkateellis • 5h
Elon Musk continues to double down on making his already struggling site less safe for users, and even less appeali… https://t.co/2FV2aZiEeW @glaad • 6h

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.