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[…] present the Vito Russo Award to award-winning screenwriter, producer, and director Ryan Murphy. Late-night talk show host and comedian Jimmy Fallon (The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon), transgender actress and advocate Nicole Maines (Supergirl), beauty guru and YouTube personality Patrick Starrr, actor and activist Jesse Williams (Grey’s Anatomy), transgender model, advocate, and producer Geena […]

[…] policy backing. This one-word celebration of a movie is just more of the same.  But what it mostly is? Pandering. After more than three years of attempting to ban  transgender people from the military, standing against multiple Supreme Court cases that would secure LGBTQ protections, opposing the Equality Act, reversing Obama era polices that expanded freedoms, pushing for […]

GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, announced today that the 31st Annual GLAAD Media Awards in New York will no longer occur next week following new guidance from the New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo around COVID-19. The 31st Annual GLAAD Media Awards are presented by Delta, […]

GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, announced today that the 31st Annual GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles will no longer take place on Thursday, April 16. GLAAD is working to reschedule the event to later in the year. GLAAD previously canceled the GLAAD Media Awards […]

[…] partnership with GLAAD. P&G has released some of the other most memorable LGBTQ-inclusive ads within the past year, including Gillette’s “First Shave” ad featuring a young Black transgender man shaving with his dad, showcasing a diverse group of trans people speaking about the importance of hair to them. Earlier this year, GLAAD also worked […]

[…] being acquired by Kamikaze Dogfight and Gravitas Ventures. The film follows a retired Muay Thai fighter (Nick Sasso, also the director) working as a bouncer, who rescues an alluring transgender performer (played by out trans actress Nomi Ruiz) from a nefarious thug, eventually becoming her bodyguard, protector, and confidant.  3) In film development news, out actor Billy […]

GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, released the findings of its 2020 Post-election Poll of LGBTQ registered voters, including a phenomenol turnout of the LGBTQ vote, a surge of first-time LGBTQ voters, an overwhelming vote for President-elect Biden, with votes motivated by three top issues  urgently […]

[…] for Outstanding Documentary to Disclosure. Laverne Cox and director Sam Feder accepted the award on behalf of the documentary, which explores over 100 years of history of transgender representation in TV and film. Watch Laverne and Sam’s acceptance speech below: When presenting the award, Sterling K. Brown said: “Friends, I’m so proud to stand […]