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 AND DEMI LOVATO, HALLE BERRY, AND ADAM RIPPON RECORD GET OUT THE VOTE PHONE CALLS TO HOME STATE VOTERS IN TEXAS, OHIO, AND PENNSYLVANIA: “LET’S USE OUR VOICES TO CREATE A LANDSLIDE FOR EQUALITY”

October 21, 2020

OCTOBER 15: SPIRIT DAY SENDS A MESSAGE OF SUPPORT AND ACCEPTANCE TO LGBTQ YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD

October 16, 2020

GLAAD’s SPIRIT DAY SENDS UNITED MESSAGE OF SUPPORT AND ACCEPTANCE TO LGBTQ YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD

October 15, 2020

TIKTOK, JONATHAN BENNETT, EDNITA, KANY GARCÍA, JACK GALINSKY, TY HERNDON, NATALIA JIMÉNEZ, LALI, BRIGHT LIGHT BRIGHT LIGHT, LEEANNE LOCKEN, COUNTESS LUANN, THE NFL, THALIA, GLORIA TREVI, AND MORE TO PARTICIPATE IN SPIRIT DAY ON OCTOBER 15

October 14, 2020

GLAAD AND BUZZFEED PARTNER TO RELEASE FOUR-PART VIDEO SERIES, “DRIVE THE VOTE,” HIGHLIGHTING LGBTQ VOTERS IN PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO, MICHIGAN, AND WISCONSIN IN LEAD UP TO ELECTION DAY

October 13, 2020

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love one another and vote ❤️ @glaad • 9h
👇👇 @Jamie_Margolin's thread on what you need to know about the intersection of climate justice, the LGBTQ community… https://t.co/OoW0d0Ry2J @glaad • 12h
I will be taking over @glaad’s twitter tonight to talk about the election, LGBTQ+ representation, @ArtMajorsShow, and c… @Jamie_Margolin • 13h

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.