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

“OPEN LETTER TO DABABY”: ELEVEN HIV ORGANIZATIONS CALL FOR MEETING WITH DABABY TO LEARN AND AMPLIFY FACTS ON HIV

August 4, 2021

GLAAD LAUNCHES SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY PROGRAM WITH TECH AND MEDIA EXPERT JENNI OLSON AS PROGRAM DIRECTOR

July 29, 2021

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

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I'm working with @GLAAD to help support the film @prayawayfilm, which explores the history and harm of conversion therap… @Peppermint247 • 11h
“As the Equality Act sits in the Senate, it’s on every Missourian to call, email and mail our senators to tell them to as… @JusticeHorn_ • 12h
"At a time when HIV continues to disproportionately impact Black Americans and queer and transgender people of colo… https://t.co/92DPyjCjKI @glaad • 13h
The @anthemawards honor the purpose and mission-driven work of people, companies, and organizations worldwide. The… https://t.co/J8cXYMqP5l @glaad • 13h
We caught up with @iLeoSheng to talk season 2 of #TheLWord: Generation Q on @showtime, and more. cc: @SHO_TheLWord https://t.co/DOL31h8Okn @glaad • 14h
‘Open Letter to #DaBaby’: National LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS Organizations Call for Educational Meeting With Rapper @dashawnusher • 14h
"As the Equality Act sits in the Senate, it’s on every Missourian to call, email and mail our senators to tell them… https://t.co/bJvrksX1K9 @glaad • 14h
NEW from @glaad, PAC, and 9 other organizations: An open letter to DaBaby requesting a private meeting to discuss the f… @PreventionAC • 15h
“Platforms need to do a much better job enforcing their existing community guidelines. Those guidelines only go so… https://t.co/svHdlLcrka @glaad • 18h
“this fight is also for the LGBTQ community.” 🏅 https://t.co/uZCTTfRHuH @glaad • 03 Aug

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.