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GLAAD AND RESPECTABILITY HIGHLIGHT AT LEAST 23 OUT LGBTQ PARALYMPIC ATHLETES AHEAD OF GAMES, A NEW RECORD

 | August 18, 2021

GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, is highlighting the participation of out LGBTQ athletes in this year’s Paralympic Games in Tokyo. This year, the number of out LGBTQ athletes (23) is nearly double the amount that competed (12) in at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio.

GLAAD RESPONDS TO PRESIDENT BIDEN’S NOMINATIONS OF TWO OUT LGBTQ WOMEN TO FEDERAL BENCH

 | August 5, 2021

New York, NY - GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, is responding to President Biden’s nomination of two out LGBTQ women to the federal bench.

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

 | August 4, 2021


Arianna’s Center, Black AIDS Institute, GLAAD, The Normal Anomaly Initiative, Prevention Access Campaign, Relationship Unleashed, and leaders from the Gilead COMPASS Initiative including Southern AIDS Coalition, Emory University, the University of Houston and Wake Forest University: “People living with HIV today, when on effective treatment, lead long and healthy lives and cannot sexually transmit HIV.”

GLAAD RESPONDS TO HISTORIC EVENTS FEATURING OUT TRANS OLYMPIANS LAUREL HUBBARD AND QUINN AT THE TOKYO 2020 GAMES

 | August 2, 2021

 

GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, is responding to the historic Olympic events featuring the first out transgender athletes to qualify and compete at an Olympic Games in the 17 years since the Olympics and Paralympics have had policies welcoming transgender participation.

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

 | July 29, 2021


GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, today announced Jenni Olson as the organization’s new Social Media Safety Program Director. Olson will build and staff GLAAD’s work to grow safer spaces for LGBTQ people on social media platforms and apps as well as develop GLAAD’s public education and watchdog work to hold social media companies accountable to the LGBTQ community.

Jenni Olson’s headshots can be found here.