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

MELISSA ETHERIDGE TO MARCH WITH GLAAD IN HISTORIC WORLDPRIDE MARCH IN NEW YORK CITY

June 27, 2019

Annual GLAAD Study Shows Further Decline in LGBTQ Acceptance among Younger Americans

June 24, 2019

GLAAD & LITTLE BEE BOOKS RELEASE NEW LGBTQ CHILDREN’S BOOKS OUR RAINBOW AND EXCEPT WHEN THEY DON’T

June 20, 2019

RITA WILSON, DAUGHTRY, GAVIN DEGRAW, HUNTER HAYES & MORE SHOW SUPPORT FOR THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY AT GLAAD + TY HERNDON ‘CONCERT FOR LOVE & ACCEPTANCE’ IN NASHVILLE DURING PRIDE MONTH

June 7, 2019

Taylor Swift Makes a Generous Donation to GLAAD in Support of the LGBTQ Community

June 1, 2019

See all the latest on the Trump Accountability Project

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Latest Updates

Donald Trump

Latest Update: July 9, 2019
07.08.19 - The Trump Administration's State Department creates a "Commission on Unalienable Rights" aimed at providing "an informed review of the role of human rights in American foreign policy." However, seven of the appointees have disturbing anti-LGBTQ records, putting acceptance for the global LGBTQ community at risk.

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.