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GLAAD STATEMENT ON THE NEW INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE FRAMEWORK CALLING FOR FULL INCLUSION OF TRANSGENDER AND INTERSEX ATHLETES
| November 16, 2021
GLAAD, the world's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, is responding to a new framework of guidelines announced today by the International Olympic Committee that calls for the full inclusion of transgender and intersex athletes.
TRANSGENDER AWARENESS WEEK: NEW VIDEO, NEW GRANTEES ANNOUNCED FOR HIV GROUPS WORKING WITH TRANS COMMUNITY
| November 15, 2021
NEW YORK, NY – Today, GLAAD and Gilead Sciences’ TRANScend® Community Impact Fund announced a video conversation with Stasha Sanchez, who was crowned Miss Continental 2018, to recognize Transgender Awareness Week (November 13 – 19), when people across the country help raise awareness about Transgender people and address issues members of the community face.
ANNUAL GLAAD ACCELERATING ACCEPTANCE STUDY: OVER 80% OF NON-LGBTQ AMERICANS EXPECT GROWING FAMILIARITY WITH TRANS AND NONBINARY PEOPLE
| November 3, 2021Contact:
Spencer Harvey
Communications Manager, GLAAD
sharvey@glaad.org
This year’s study found that non-LGBTQ people are more aware of the LGBTQ community being multifaceted, that there are more than two genders, and that trans and nonbinary people will become a more familiar part of everyday life
Despite growing awareness, approximately half of non-LGBTQ people find conversations about gender identity and the LGBTQ community complicated or confusing
GLAAD + EQUALITY VIRGINIA ADVOCATES' URGENT NEW EFFORTS TO TURN OUT LGBTQ VOTE
| October 27, 2021
GLAAD, the world’s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, along with Equality Virginia Advocates, the leading LGBTQ advocacy organization in Virginia, today announce urgent new efforts to get LGBTQ voters to the polls in the final days before Election Day, as Virginia chooses its next governor.
GLAAD HIGHLIGHTS LGBTQ VICTORY FUND REPORT WITH NEW FINDINGS ON LGBTQ REPRESENTATION IN ELECTORAL POLITICS
| October 26, 2021
GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, and the LGBTQ Victory Fund, the only national organization dedicated to electing LGBTQ people, highlight new findings that show an exponential increase in LGBTQ representation in electoral politics—with the number of out LGBTQ candidates running for office at the local, state, and federal level continuing to grow and to diversify year over year.
