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

SPIRIT DAY SET FOR THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17 WHEN MILLIONS WILL GO PURPLE IN A STAND AGAINST BULLYING AND IN SUPPORT OF LGBTQ YOUTH

September 19, 2019

POSE + AMERICAN HORROR STORY STAR AND TRANS ACTIVIST ANGELICA ROSS TO HOST PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FORUM ON LGBTQ ISSUES

September 16, 2019

EMMY AND GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING SUPERSTAR PAULA ABDUL TO BE HONORED WITH THE ARIADNE GETTY ALLY AWARD AT THE 2019 GLAAD GALA SAN FRANCISCO

September 4, 2019

GLAAD ANNOUNCES BILL MCDERMOTT AS CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER TO JOIN SENIOR LEADERSHIP TEAM AND LEAD FUNDRAISING EFFORTS

August 20, 2019

SCHITT'S CREEK CO-CREATOR AND STAR DAN LEVY TO BE HONORED WITH THE DAVIDSON/VALENTINI AWARD AT THE 2019 GLAAD GALA SAN FRANCISCO

August 13, 2019

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Today, over 3 years after the tragedy, I became the first Pulse survivor to testify before Congress. And I will KEEP fightin… @bjoewolf • 14h
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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.