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On Monday, January 22nd, GLAAD hosted a double feature event, spotlighting the hard work and creativity of transgender storytellers at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. Alex Schmider and Shar Jossell Trans and nonbinary writers, directors, actors, allies, and activists came together at The Box Theater in Park City to celebrate the projects telling authentic […]

[…] candidates about them. The records include: The Republican Candidates Donald Trump, former U.S. President Numerous post-presidency anti-trans statements including (in part): Vowed to crack down on “ transgender insanity” and pledged to “revoke every Biden policy promoting the disfigurement of our youth” at the first rally of his 2024 presidential campaign Accused Democrats of […]

[…] Nex Benedict last month cast a spotlight on the relentless bullying LGBTQ students face in schools nationwide, and on the records of Oklahoma’s elected leaders in targeting transgender students, including the Superintendent of Public Instruction, Ryan Walters. Walters told ABC News, “we’re not going to lie to students. And we’re not going to push […]

Earlier this year, in honor of National Transgender HIV Testing Day, Amida Care, a private nonprofit community health plan, joined forces with NEW Pride Agenda, an LGBTQ education and advocacy organization in New York State, to launch a new PrEP campaign: “My Body. My Life. My PrEP.” / “Mi Cuerpo. My Vida. Mi PrEP.“ […]

[…] policies of support, as documented via GLAAD’s Biden Accountability Tracker.  Best Practices Stories about or that mention LGBTQ people should include LGBTQ voices.  In stories specifically about transgender people, seek and include a transgender person. GLAAD can connect you.  Prioritize facts, expertise and LGBTQ lived experience over candidate and campaign opinion in your reporting. […]

[…] felt immediately in the community. Rainbow Youth Project, a social welfare nonprofit organization that promotes the health, safety, and wellbeing of 2SLGBTQ+ (Two Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer) young people throughout the United States, reported 349 crisis contacts received between February 16th and February 20th. Incoming contacts usually average 87 per week. 69% […]

GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, is responding to President Joe Biden’s first State of the Union address, in which he urges the passage of the Equality Act, and calls the state laws targeting transgender Americans wrong. President Biden said in his speech: ”For our LGBTQ+ […]

(Monday, July 8, 2024) GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, is sharing a statement from advocates on behalf of the mother and aunt of Pauly Likens (she/her), a transgender teenager found brutally murdered and dismembered in Sharon, Pennsylvania. Statement from Pamela Ladner (she/her), President of LGBTQIA+ […]