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Today, GLAAD launched the second installment in a national ad campaign focused on right-wing think tank the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a transition plan and playbook calling for radical changes to the U.S. government. The new ad, titled “The Purge,” depicts the potential effects of Project 2025. “The Purge” is set in a federal government

[…] Quinnipiac University National Poll found an overwhelming 70% of Americans support allowing transgender Americans to serve in our nation’s armed forces. After former President Trump tweeted his intention to ban transgender people in 2017, fifty-six retired generals and admirals warned that his ban would degrade military readiness. In a 2018 report, The Palm Center, an independent, non-partisan research institute that conducts scholarly […]

[…] percentage in the history of the Where We Are on TV report GLAAD adds five streaming services to its annual count of LGBTQ characters Total number of transgender characters increases across broadcast, cable, and streaming For first time in report’s history, lesbians make up the majority of LGBTQ characters on broadcast at 40 percent, […]

[…] One year ago today, a coalition of more than 100 LGBTQ organizations and notables called out the New York Times’ pattern of publishing inaccurate, biased pieces about transgender people that are regularly used by extremist lawmakers and extremist organizations in court as justification for banning trans people from accessing best practice medical care. GLAAD, the […]

[…] categorical exclusions on mainstream consensus health care for any group of Americans are discriminatory, as many federal courts have already affirmed, including in Florida earlier this month. Transgender people already face disproportionately high levels of discrimination and harassment seeking health care and in their everyday lives, which are exacerbated for Black, Indigenous, and other transgender […]

[…] nearly every state in this country,” Ellis told MSNBC’s Yasmin Vassoughian. The shooting happened on the eve of Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day to honor the transgender people killed by violence over the last year. GLAAD has recommendations for media covering transgender people, transgender people targeted by violence – including avoiding “deadnaming” or using […]

[…] LGBTQ record on the GLAAD Accountability Project. DeSantis has reportedly chosen to announce his campaign for president with Twitter CEO Elon Musk, whose growing record of targeting transgender people includes removing protections for transgender users from Twitter’s hateful conduct policy, spreading and encouraging disinformation, and suggesting criminalizing doctors for following mainstream medical care supported by […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (New York, NY, November 3, 2023) — GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, urges media to report accurately, inclusively and responsibly on the LGBTQ records and platforms of candidates for office in the 2023 election, and the consequences of the election on LGBTQ […]