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[…] every American who deserves a future where freedom can expand and lift all of us up.” (Friday, July 19, 2024) GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, is responding to the nomination of twice-impeached, convicted of 34 felonies for election interference, Donald Trump at the Republican National […]

Four years ago, GLAAD launched the Studio Responsibility Index (SRI) to map the quantity and quality of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in films released by the major motion picture studios. Today, we still struggle to find any marked improvement in the representation of LGBT lives on the silver screen. An unfortunate […]

From the Office of the President & CEO, Sarah Kate Ellis GLAAD created the Studio Responsibility Index in 2013 to track lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) inclusion in major studio films after seeing the progress our TV research had driven in the industry and with creators. Entertainment is America’s most widespread cultural […]

[…] of those living at the intersections of many identities. One area where Hollywood film most notably falls behind other forms of media is the complete lack of transgender characters. GLAAD did not count a single transgender character across the 109 films distributed by major studios in 2017. On the indie side, however, 2017 included […]

NEW YORK, NY – GLAAD, the nation’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy organization, has teamed up with actor Kat Graham (Vampire Diaries) and Atlanta-based transgender advocate and performer Alissah Brooks to launch a new series of guests posts for GLAAD Newsroom that feature interviews with people making an impact on LGBT […]

Contact: Pedro Julio Serrano Spokesperson, Puerto Rico Para Tod@s pedrojulio@pedrojulioserrano.com 787.602.5954 Contact: Mary Emily O’Hara Rapid Response Manager, GLAAD    mohara@glaad.org Seven Transgender People Murdered in Puerto Rico Over Past Year; Puerto Rico Para Tod@s declares “state of emergency for gender violence and hate crimes.”  January 15, 2020 — In solidarity with the LGBTQ advocacy group […]

[…] lives of four American transgender troops defending their country’s freedom while fighting for their own, and the larger efforts to bring an end to the ban on transgender people serving openly in the U.S. military. Director Gabriel Silverman, Co-Director Fiona Dawson, and Producer Jamie Coughlin previously created the popular Emmy®-nominated 2015 New York Times Op-Doc “Transgender, at […]

GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, is responding to the announcement from the White House National Monkeypox Response Team regarding a new equity intervention program to expand monkeypox virus (MPV) vaccine access for vulnerable communities, and to LGBTQ-focused events nationwide. The Biden administration will now allocate […]