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

Over 50 LGBTQ, HIV/AIDS, and Public Health Organizations Demand Facebook Remove Ads Promoting Dangerous and False Information About HIV Prevention

December 9, 2019

GLAAD WHERE WE ARE ON TV REPORT: BROADCAST TELEVISION EXCEEDS GLAAD CHALLENGE IN JUST ONE YEAR AS PERCENTAGE OF LGBTQ SERIES REGULARS REACHES ALL-TIME HIGH

November 7, 2019

SPIRIT DAY CELEBRATES 10 YEARS TODAY AND SENDS GLOBAL MESSAGE OF SUPPORT TO LGBTQ YOUTH

October 17, 2019

MESSAGES OF SUPPORT FOR LGBTQ YOUTH ECHO AROUND THE WORLD ON THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF GLAAD’S SPIRIT DAY

October 17, 2019

THE OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND ITS UN FREE AND EQUAL CAMPAIGN PARTNER WITH GLAAD FOR SPIRIT DAY

October 16, 2019

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Thank you to @pfpicardi and @ZachStafford for your tireless work at @outmagazine and @TheAdvocateMag. LGBTQ media is vi… @sarahkateellis • 11 Dec
I used to see these ads on FB all the time, thank you for @glaad for helping to combat #disinformation about this importan… @jfgreenberg • 11 Dec
More than 50 LGBTQ, HIV and AIDS, and public health organizations are calling on @Facebook to remove dangerous and… https://t.co/5Pbxj7gvoV @glaad • 11 Dec
💙💙@glaad @KChenoweth https://t.co/Bgye7pvb1x @katiecouric • 11 Dec
.@KChenoweth sat down with @katiecouric and talked about why she's an advocate for the LGBTQ community: "I feel lik… https://t.co/HQ72fGblez @glaad • 11 Dec
It's what they deserve. https://t.co/nhSlvarQRk @glaad • 11 Dec
"The holidays can be hard for everyone — but they can be especially hard for queer people sundered from their famil… https://t.co/k0OeVUOJR7 @glaad • 11 Dec
Governor Cuomo is joining ⁦⁦@peterstaley⁩ @AlphonsoDavid⁩ ⁦@HRC⁩ ⁦@GMHC⁩ ⁦@TrevorProject⁩ ⁦@glaad⁩ & other LGBTQ leaders… @PeterAjemian • 10 Dec

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.