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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.

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Anti-LGBTQ Activists Used Anti-Trans Rhetoric To Sway Voters in Key 2019 Political Elections

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GLAAD RESOURCE FOR JOURNALISTS COVERING ORAL ARGUMENTS BEFORE THE U.S. SUPREME COURT ON OCTOBER 8

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GLAAD Joins One Iowa, The Gazette, and The Advocate as National Partner for Presidential Candidate Forum on LGBTQ Issues

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BACKGROUNDER: 2020 Candidate Joe Walsh’s Anti-LGBTQ Record Shows He Would Also Be Hostile to LGBTQ Americans

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In The News

GLAAD MEDIA AWARDS VIDEOS: ALLIES STAND UP FOR TRANS COMMUNITY AND AGAINST ANTI-LGBTQ LEGISLATION

March 31, 2023

GLAAD RELEASES URGENT NEW RESOURCES FOR ACCURATE AND INCLUSIVE NEWS COVERAGE OF TRANSGENDER PEOPLE

March 30, 2023

GLAAD, ACT UP NY UNITE IN PROTEST AT SIMON & SCHUSTER HEADQUARTERS OVER AIDS DENIALISM BOOK RELEASE

March 27, 2023

CLARIFYING THE ROLE OF THE COALITION OF 100+ ORGANIZATIONS AND LEADERS CALLING ON THE NEW YORK TIMES TO STOP PRINTING BIASED, IRRESPONSIBLE TRANS STORIES

March 17, 2023

ONE MONTH LATER: COALITION ASKS NEW YORK TIMES: WILL YOU MEET WITH TRANS COMMUNITY LEADERS?

March 15, 2023

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GLAAD President and CEO @sarahkateellis joined @CBSNews to talk about #TransDayOfVisibility and why the messages of… https://t.co/4Puy4MuW7r @glaad • 1h

“In Southern Story Bank, a new video series curated by the LGBTQ advocacy group GLAAD thathighlights trans Southern… https://t.co/jsC3Kos6UK @glaad • 2h

Trans Allies: Lift up trans voices and speak out. And not just on Trans Day of Visibility. There is no LGBTQ without th… @sarahkateellis • 4h

Last night we showed our love and appreciation for Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, the pride of Puerto Rico, also known a… @ricky_martin • 7h

Slayers gonna SLAY. @thelarkspurr • 9h

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in @marniofficial x @ManoloBlahnik last night for the #GLAADMediaAwards @glaad 💙♥️ @JohnnySibilly • 8h

What's next for trans representation in AAA games? #TransDayOfVisibility https://t.co/Zwt5uVbfwQ @glaad • 4h

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.