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

GLAAD RESPONDS TO WEEKEND OF VIOLENCE AGAINST LGBTQ PEOPLE AND YOUTH AS NEW IPSOS POLL SUGGESTS 2/3 OF REPUBLICANS SUPPORT DISCUSSION OF RACE, GENDER AND LGBTQ PEOPLE IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS

September 26, 2022

GLAAD POINTS TO BOOK BANS AS JUST ONE ARM OF ORGANIZED NATIONAL ATTACK ON LGBTQ YOUTH AS NEW PEN AMERICA REPORT REVEALS NEARLY HALF OF BANNED BOOKS ARE TARGETED DUE TO LGBTQ CONTENT

September 19, 2022

GLAAD Statement in Response to Delay of Respect for Marriage Act Vote

September 15, 2022

GLAAD STATEMENT ON PENDING SALE OF TWITTER TO ELON MUSK

September 13, 2022

EQUALITY OHIO AND GLAAD RELEASE LGBTQ RECORDS OF U.S. SENATE CANDIDATES; CALL ON MEDIA TO INCLUDE LGBTQ PEOPLE AND FACTS IN COVERAGE OF THE GENERAL ELECTION

September 13, 2022

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Congratulations! 🥰❤️😍 https://t.co/dhxy5qhgST @glaad • 6h
The #Virginia Dept. of Education’s proposed 2022 policies rolling back protections for trans students and requiring dis… @sarahkateellis • 10h
September 27 is National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, a day to help stop HIV stigma and encourage HIV testing, prev… @aids_memorial • 14h
Thread: https://t.co/GllHMSVazW @glaad • 11h
“Simply put, authentic corporate allies refrain from donating money to those who are working to roll back LGBTQ rig… https://t.co/VpiNkmIyga @glaad • 11h
Every month, we will be picking a random winner in our scholarship program. Apply quick and easy on your phone for a c… @AMarch4OurLives • 23 Sep
McLean High School students in Northern Virginia chant “D-O-E, Leave us be” and “Trans rights are human rights” in prot… @nathanielcline • 15h
This is incredible! @Jack_Petocz • 16h
Bravo to these students in Virginia! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 https://t.co/lJlD9xzzJc @glaad • 13h
Press is not allowed to cover today’s walkouts against the state’s anti-transgender policies at eight Prince William Count… @jillpalermo • 17h

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.