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

GLAAD, THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS AND LOCAL LGBTQ ORGANIZATIONS IN SOUTH CAROLINA RESPOND TO GOVERNOR HENRY MCMASTER SIGNING A BILL INTO LAW BANNING TRANSGENDER YOUTH FROM SCHOOL SPORTS

May 17, 2022

GLAAD AND COUNTER NARRATIVE PROJECT RESPONDS TO LEGISLATURE PASSAGE OF HIV DECRIMINALIZATION BILL IN GEORGIA

May 12, 2022

33rd ANNUAL GLAAD MEDIA AWARDS VIDEOS, PHOTOS: “ALL HANDS ON DECK.” ARIANA DEBOSE, JUDITH LIGHT, KARINE JEAN-PIERRE, WILSON CRUZ, LAVERNE COX, AND SARAH KATE ELLIS UNITE IN SUPPORT OF LGBTQ COMMUNITY AND FIGHT BACK AGAINST ANTI-LGBTQ ATTACKS

May 7, 2022

33RD ANNUAL GLAAD MEDIA AWARDS IN NYC RECIPIENTS INCLUDE: POSE, LIL NAS X, TODAY (NBC), POWER RANGERS: DINO FURY, SESAME STREET, LILY ROSE, ASSOCIATED PRESS, JONATHAN CAPEHART, DAWN ENNIS, BROADWAY’S COMPANY, THOUGHTS OF A COLORED MAN, VICE NEWS AND MORE

May 6, 2022

GLAAD RESPONDS TO HISTORIC APPOINTMENT OF KARINE JEAN-PIERRE AS WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY, THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN AND FIRST OUT LGBTQ PERSON TO SERVE IN THE ROLE

May 5, 2022

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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.