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[…] in part by the New York City Council and the Department of Youth and Community Development – promoted acceptance when it was needed most. About 85% of transgender and nonbinary youth said recent debates around anti-trans bills negatively impacted their mental health. For them and their peers, GLAAD made sure the Day’s iconic purple […]

[…] are increasingly finding LGBTQI women feel that they are misunderstood and under supported… We want to create a week that recognises, celebrates and importantly supports lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer women across the UK and beyond to be their true selves at work, at home and socially.” – DIVA Media Group The lesbian community […]

[…] much? Probably not, right? The same goes for Latine kids, who are far less likely to be included in children’s books. Seeing a dearth of books about Latine people, the organization Hispanic Star teamed up with Macmillan to create a series of books that would “get Hispanic heroes into every Latine household and ensure every […]

[…] trans people really are and about why the current barrage of anti-trans bills promoted by fearmongering politicians are so harmful and unnecessary,” Nick Adams, GLAAD’s Director of Transgender Representation, said in 2021. Furthermore, the film is described as a love letter to Bassetti’s own son who is trans, like the protagonists in the film. […]

Will Davis is no stranger to making history. Less than 10 years ago, Davis became the first transgender person to lead a major nonprofit institution without a defined LGBTQ mission when he stepped in as artistic director of Chicago’s American Theater Center in 2016. Now he’s the first-ever trans leader of an Off-Broadway theater, […]

[…] author, and musician Dominique Morgan. Morgan is an award-winning speaker who has worked to dismantle the prison industrial complex. She is believed to be the first out transgender Black woman in the United States to receive the honor of having a street named after her. The Omaha City Council voted unanimously to honor Morgan […]

[…] He leads a staff of media professionals in both Los Angeles and New York City in GLAAD’s Entertainment Media and Spanish-Language departments, as well as the organization’s transgender, sports, Southern, international, and youth initiatives. A veteran of the fights to repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ and overturn the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) […]

[…] All We Had, the story of a struggling mother and daughter who settle in a small town. The film co-starred trans actor Eve Lindley as Pam, a transgender waitress with big dreams who becomes the best friend of the young girl while dealing with transphobia in rural America. Gravitas also distributed 4th Man Out, […]