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

FDA REVISES ITS BAN ON GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN DONATING BLOOD FOLLOWING PUBLIC PRESSURE FROM GLAAD, MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS, ELECTED OFFICIALS, LGBTQ AMERICANS AND ALLIES

April 2, 2020

GLAAD RECEIVES CONFIRMATION THAT GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN ARE ALSO UNFAIRLY BANNED FROM DONATING PLASMA FOR EXPERIMENTAL COVID-19 TREATMENT

March 31, 2020

FDA “CONTINUING TO REEVALUATE” BAN ON BLOOD FROM GAY AND BI MEN AS SENATORS AND CELEBRITIES JOIN GLAAD IN CALLING FOR AN END TO THE BAN

March 27, 2020

MIKA TO PERFORM AT THE 31ST ANNUAL GLAAD MEDIA AWARDS IN LOS ANGELES, FORTUNE FEIMSTER TO HOST

March 5, 2020

BETTE MIDLER TO MAKE FIRST-TIME APPEARANCE AT THE GLAAD MEDIA AWARDS IN NEW YORK ON MARCH 19

February 27, 2020

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Join the Rapid Response Team

If you don't know who Phyllis and Del are educate yourself. Rest in Power Phyllis, and thank you. https://t.co/bGaQA3d5w4 @chrisdocnee • 12h
“Whether it be her opposition to marriage equality or her attacks on transgender people, McEnany has shown that she… https://t.co/u79uAYbNPo @glaad • 9h
Are you feeling isolated from your Easter celebration? Join these virtual LGBTQ inclusive gatherings for Holy Week. https://t.co/MCxsqxJOv0 @glaad • 12h
Phyllis Lyon was a lesbian and feminist icon whose contributions to the LGBTQ movement were hugely important. My heart… @sarahkateellis • 12h
Shy, straight-A student Ellie is hired by sweet jock Paul, who needs help winning over a girl at school. Their new… https://t.co/HUzD1vMpym @glaad • 12h
Iconic lesbian activist Phyllis Lyon died peacefully at home in San Francisco of natural causes. She was 95. Lyon a… https://t.co/oD7A6wi0gY @glaad • 13h
I wrote this piece for GLAAD about my found family and how to keep those ties in quarantine. Please read it and check… @PallasGutierrez • 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.