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 RESPONDS TO OUT OLYMPIAN AND WNBA STAR SUE BIRD CHOSEN TO LEAD TEAM USA’S DELEGATION AND CARRY THE U.S. FLAG AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES TOKYO 2020 OPENING CEREMONY

July 21, 2021

GLAAD RESPONDS TO LUKE PROKOP’S COMING OUT AS GAY, A FIRST FOR THE NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE

July 19, 2021

GLAAD, ATHLETE ALLY AND PRIDE HOUSE TOKYO RELEASE GUIDE FOR JOURNALISTS COVERING LGBTQ ATHLETES AND ISSUES AT THE SUMMER OLYMPICS AND PARALYMPICS

July 19, 2021

9TH ANNUAL GLAAD STUDIO RESPONSIBILITY INDEX: GROWTH IN RACIAL DIVERSITY AND SCREEN TIME FOR LGBTQ CHARACTERS BUT ZERO TRANSGENDER CHARACTERS IN 2020 WIDE RELEASE FILMS

July 15, 2021

GLAAD RESPONDS TO SUPREME COURT VICTORY FOR GAVIN GRIMM

June 28, 2021

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A record number of out LGBTQ athletes are competing at the Olympics and Paralympics this year. We've joined… https://t.co/i5T7TgCh8w @glaad • 3h
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For week 3 of our #SummerCamp, we are excited to announce a screening of the Netflix film Disclosure (2020), followed by a… @lgbtfriend • 8h
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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.