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 Announces Social Media Safety Index to Rate Social Media Platforms on Safety for LGBTQ Community

February 26, 2021

KARAMO, ANGELICA ROSS, PATRIK-IAN POLK, AND RAQUEL WILLIS TO JOIN GLAAD’S FIRST HIV STIGMA & FAITH SUMMIT TO TRAIN AND EDUCATE LEADERS ADDRESSING EPIDEMIC IN THE SOUTH

February 22, 2021

GLAAD RESPONDS TO GROWING BIPARTISAN PUSH TO BAN CONVERSION THERAPY IN KENTUCKY; SURVIVORS SPEAK OUT AS POLLS SHOW A MAJORITY OF RESIDENTS SUPPORT A STATEWIDE BAN

February 16, 2021

GLAAD STATEMENT ON DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT (HUD) BARRING ANTI-LGBTQ DISCRIMINATION IN HOUSING

February 11, 2021

STATEMENT FROM GLAAD WITH FACT SHEET ON COVID-19 RELIEF AND COVID-19 IMPACT ON LGBTQ AMERICANS

February 5, 2021

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This week’s episode of @lgbtqpod features an interview with lesbian pioneer Ivy Bottini, who passed away last week… https://t.co/pETIIqBEsd @glaad • 1h
GLAAD was proud to partner on #Rurangi when it played at @NewFestNYC. The film was written by a trans man with tran… https://t.co/iog6YBrMWB @glaad • 2h
Thank you @AndyTowle for your tireless work over the last 18 years at @tlrd to ensure LGBTQ stories and issues were… https://t.co/yG4YrR1X0E @glaad • 5h
#TheWorldToCome, a powerful 19th century LGBTQ romance, is now available on demand. GLAAD recently caught up with t… https://t.co/9RnQpVFpgn @glaad • 7h
NBC Out is taking a look at how the pandemic economy has affected the LGBTQ community. Have you experienced job or income loss… @NBCOUT • 23 Feb
We continue to grieve the senseless loss of Jeffrey "JJ" Bright, a 16-year-old trans boy, and his sister Jasmine. A… https://t.co/Kq3JELNIfn @glaad • 9h
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A majority of Americans of all faiths and parties support laws protecting LGBTQ people. A major faith-based organiz… https://t.co/cvoeLH1S6D @glaad • 01 Mar
Led by @pwcdanica, Virginia has passed bill HB 2132 to ban the 'Gay/Trans Panic Defense.' It now goes to… https://t.co/G4ebSYuDLw @glaad • 01 Mar

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.