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.

Latest Stories

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Anti-LGBTQ Activists Used Anti-Trans Rhetoric To Sway Voters in Key 2019 Political Elections

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GLAAD RESOURCE FOR JOURNALISTS COVERING ORAL ARGUMENTS BEFORE THE U.S. SUPREME COURT ON OCTOBER 8

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GLAAD Joins One Iowa, The Gazette, and The Advocate as National Partner for Presidential Candidate Forum on LGBTQ Issues

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BACKGROUNDER: 2020 Candidate Joe Walsh’s Anti-LGBTQ Record Shows He Would Also Be Hostile to LGBTQ Americans

GLAAD STATEMENT ON THE NEW INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE FRAMEWORK CALLING FOR FULL INCLUSION OF TRANSGENDER AND INTERSEX ATHLETES

November 16, 2021

TRANSGENDER AWARENESS WEEK: NEW VIDEO, NEW GRANTEES ANNOUNCED FOR HIV GROUPS WORKING WITH TRANS COMMUNITY

November 15, 2021

ANNUAL GLAAD ACCELERATING ACCEPTANCE STUDY: OVER 80% OF NON-LGBTQ AMERICANS EXPECT GROWING FAMILIARITY WITH TRANS AND NONBINARY PEOPLE

November 3, 2021

GLAAD + EQUALITY VIRGINIA ADVOCATES' URGENT NEW EFFORTS TO TURN OUT LGBTQ VOTE

October 27, 2021

GLAAD HIGHLIGHTS LGBTQ VICTORY FUND REPORT WITH NEW FINDINGS ON LGBTQ REPRESENTATION IN ELECTORAL POLITICS

October 26, 2021

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Join us for a conversation on THURSDAY 12/09, 4 PM ET for a conversation with @brennansuen, @frantomatic, Adri Perez, and… @PRAEyesRight • 6h

We signed this letter along with over 600 organizations and individuals who stand against censorship in school libraries.… @MacmillanUSA • 6h

#RepresentationMatters, and that includes books. Young people should see themselves on the pages they read. COC joined… @ColorOfChange • 8h

On the upcoming episode of @RedTableTalk: The Estefans, singer-songwriter and former Fifth Harmony star… https://t.co/VmdkMIC3Fp @glaad • 7h

This is horrible. @AmazonHelp Please remove this book from the LGBTQ category immediately. It is absolutely not an… https://t.co/OddJ2LjOif @glaad • 9h

Books help us learn about the world, comfort us, and reflect our own lives. That’s why we're saying NO to censorship. #Books… @NCLRights • 12h

GLAAD's own @monicatrasandes is speaking at the #HispanicSummit2021 today about Latine and LGBTQ representation in… https://t.co/p79kXLoQYx @glaad • 9h

Freedom Oklahoma has joined over 600 other organizations and people to take a stand against censorship in school libraries… @FreedomOkla • 10h

"Notable organizational signatories include: ACLU, GLAAD, Color of Change, Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster,… https://t.co/58aZ0Euu60 @glaad • 10h

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.