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.

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In The News

GLAAD and Bonnier Publishing USA Announce Children’s Book Publishing Partnership

May 17, 2018

Ava DuVernay, Samira Wiley, and Ms. Gloria Carter Receive Standing Ovations in Groundbreaking Speeches at the 29th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in New York

May 7, 2018

Ava DuVernay, Samira Wiley, y Ms. Gloria Carter reciben reconocimientos en la vigésima novena entrega de Premios GLAAD en Nueva York

May 5, 2018

Ava DuVernay, Samira Wiley, and Ms. Gloria Carter receive honors at the 29th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in New York

May 5, 2018

CBS’ Survivor: Game Changers receives GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Reality Program at the GLAAD Rising Stars Luncheon

May 4, 2018

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Latest Updates

Donald Trump

Latest Update: March 26, 2018
-- 3.23.18 - Reporting in Slate reveals that the Trump Administration worked closely with Tony Perkins, head of the anti-LGBTQ hate group Family Research Council to draft their latest policy to implement Trump's ban transgender soldiers from openly serving in any capacity within the United States armed forces. -- 3.23.18 - President Trump announces a reworked attempt to ban all transgender people from serving in the military in response to the implementation of his original policy being frozen by four different federal courts who declared it likely to be unconstitutional.

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.