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Los Angeles, Monday, March 31, 2014 – GLAAD, the nation’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy organization, today announced it will honor actress, producer, and writer Laverne Cox at the 25th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles at the Beverly Hilton on April 12, 2014. Academy Award-nominated actress Ellen Page will […]

GLAAD, the nation’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy organization, today released “Accelerating Acceptance,” based on two surveys – conducted on GLAAD’s behalf by Harris Poll – which reveal some non-LGBT Americans still report substantial levels of discomfort with LGBT co-workers, family, and neighbors, despite historic legal progress for marriage equality. The […]

  GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, is responding to President Biden’s Executive Order on Protecting Access to Reproductive Healthcare Services signed this morning. The order expands protections for medication abortion, contraception, emergency medical services, and patient privacy. The order also makes it clear that the […]

[…] stop using their offices to target children and work to protect them instead.” (New York, NY – Friday, February 23, 2024) GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, is releasing the LGBTQ records of Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt and his former Education Secretary, current Superintendent of Public Instruction, […]

The US elections are coming up fast on November 3.  With the rise of representation of transgender characters in media as well as the growth of visibility of transgender issues unfortunately comes a lot of backlash. Anti-transgender sentiment has been rising and inspiring various laws designed to target, control, and punish transgender individuals for being […]

[…] harmful lies and misinformation about LGBTQ people. Youngkin appeared at a gala hosted by the so-called Family Foundation, which filed a lawsuit challenging Virginia state policy protecting transgender students, and which has supported discredited and dangerous “therapy” that falsely claims people can change their sexual orientation or gender identity. The anti-LGBTQ legal group Alliance […]

Idaho’s Senate Republicans rejected H.B. 675, which would have criminalized parents who seek gender-affirming treatment for their children, and the medical providers who treat them. The legislation would have made treating a transgender child a felony as well assisting the child to leave Idaho for the purpose of seeking treatment in another state.

[…] illegal in 22 states, but did not update talk show viewers.   Falsely and without evidence claimed that “80 to 85% of kids who say they are transgender will naturally, if they’re not influenced, go back to their biological gender .”    Praised Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ extreme “don’t say gay or trans” law […]