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

THE ICONIC EMPIRE STATE BUILDING TO GO PURPLE FOR SPIRIT DAY WITH RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE WINNER SYMONE

October 20, 2021

CHLOE X HALLE, HAILEE STEINFELD, STERLING K. BROWN, ISIS KING, KAT GRAHAM, QUEENS FROM RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE, WATCH WHAT HAPPENS LIVE WITH ANDY COHEN, VIACOMCBS, WARNERMEDIA, AND MORE SET TO PARTICIPATE IN SPIRIT DAY ON OCTOBER 21

October 14, 2021

NEON BY GLAAD RELEASES FOUR-PART “CHANGEMAKERS” VIDEO SERIES, SPOTLIGHTING BLACK LGBTQ SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS AND THEIR IMPACT WITHIN LOCAL COMMUNITIES THROUGHOUT THE U.S.

September 30, 2021

LIL NAS X HELPS RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT HIV IN THE U.S. SOUTH WITH MTV VMAS PERFORMANCE FEATURING AN APPEARANCE BY SOUTHERN AIDS COALITION’S MARDREQUS HARRIS

September 12, 2021

GLAAD AND RESPECTABILITY HIGHLIGHT AT LEAST 23 OUT LGBTQ PARALYMPIC ATHLETES AHEAD OF GAMES, A NEW RECORD

August 18, 2021

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In honor of #SpiritDay, we are releasing a short film in support of trans youth, who continue to face disproportion… https://t.co/PO3nMVuVzo @glaad • 0h
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“These anti-transgender bills are nothing more than bullying disguised as legislation and undermine our nation’s co… https://t.co/fIRv1CjDJz @glaad • 1h
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Huh. Cool. @glaad used my comment about how Waverly in #WynonnaEarp was the first queer character I really related to. (E… @DanielleVEsq • 13h
Netflix has now acknowledged what we all know, that media has real-world consequences, but they still need to take… https://t.co/q4JEmAHYOk @glaad • 12h
“This bill is state-sponsored harassment and targeting of transgender children, who deserve to learn, grow and have… https://t.co/pM7UBzAouW @glaad • 19h
Our own Gwendolyn Pointer will be a part of this conversation for @advertisingweek! https://t.co/FHc9itQy3n @glaad • 20h
“The decision was very clear to all of us. We should not move the event. Instead, we should move forward, using the… https://t.co/fodTfW6QFV @glaad • 22h

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.