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NEW YORK, NY – Sarah Kate Ellis, CEO and President of GLAAD – the nation’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy organization – today denounced proposed legislation that would give license to Arizona’s business owners to blatantly discriminate against LGBT people. “Being anti-LGBT is bad for business,” Ellis told CNN’s Carol Costello […]

NEW YORK, NY – GLAAD, the nation’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy organization, today responded to Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s veto of Senate Bill 1062, which would have given license to Arizona businesses to blatantly discriminate against LGBT people. “Discrimination is not an American value, plain and simple,” said GLAAD CEO […]

NEW YORK, NY – GLAAD, the nation’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy organization, today responded to Guinness’ announcement that the company will drop its sponsorship of the New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade due to the parade’s discriminatory rule that prohibits LGBT families and organizations from participating. Guinness today released […]

New York, NY – GLAAD, the nation’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy organization, today announced an official partnership with the You Can Play Project, one of North America’s leading organizations dedicated to ensuring equality, respect, and safety for all athletes, without regard to sexual orientation. Together, the organizations will expand visibility of […]

AMHERST, MA – GLAAD, the nation’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy organization, and the You Can Play Project, one of North America’s leading organizations dedicated to ensuring equality in sports, today hailed Derrick Gordon’s coming out as the first openly gay male National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I basketball player. […]

39 Washington state legislators sign letter in support of gay Scoutmaster  Seattle, WA, Monday, April 21, 2014 –GLAAD, the nation’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy organization, today responded to the Boy Scouts of America’s (BSA) decision to revoke the charter of a Seattle-area church due to its continued support of an […]

New York, Friday, April 25, 2014 – GLAAD, the nation’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy organization, today announced that two-time Grammy Award-winning country music artist Kacey Musgraves will perform at the 25th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in New York on May 3 at the Waldorf Astoria New York. Musgraves, the first […]

NEW YORK, NY – GLAAD, the nation’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy organization, today responded to the historic draft of openly gay football player Michael Sam to the National Football League (NFL). Sam will become the first-ever openly gay footballer to play for the league next season. “Without a doubt, this […]