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

INDIANAPOLIS ARCHDIOCESE ISSUES NEW POLICY THAT WOULD EXPEL TRANS STUDENTS FOR BEING WHO THEY ARE

June 25, 2020

GLAAD RELEASES INAUGURAL 20 UNDER 20 LIST, SPOTLIGHTING YOUNG LGBTQ TRAILBLAZERS SHAPING THE FUTURE OF MEDIA & ACTIVISM

June 22, 2020

GLAAD APPLAUDS WATERSHED MOMENT AS THE U.S. SUPREME COURT RULES THAT FIRING AN EMPLOYEE FOR BEING LGBTQ VIOLATES TITLE VII

June 15, 2020

PROCTER & GAMBLE AND GLAAD STUDY: EXPOSURE TO LGBTQ REPRESENTATION IN MEDIA AND ADVERTISING LEADS TO GREATER ACCEPTANCE OF THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY

May 27, 2020

GLAAD’S “TOGETHER IN PRIDE: YOU ARE NOT ALONE,” HIGHLIGHTS THE LGBTQ RESPONSE TO COVID-19 AND RAISES OVER $225,000 FOR CENTERLINK AND LOCAL LGBTQ CENTERS

April 26, 2020

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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.