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Meredith Marks has always been a strong advocate for GLAAD and the LGBTQ community as a whole. As the Sundance Film Festival engulfed Park City last weekend, on January 21st, Meredith Marks from The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Meredith Marks warmly welcomed GLAAD into her boutique located at the heart of Sundance’s […]

[…] Sarah Kate Ellis responded on Twitter/X: “Cecilia Gentili’s death is such a huge loss. She impacted so many, especially those in the trans community in New York City and beyond. This is the power of one person who used her identity and gifts to help more people be seen and heard. In the art she created, […]

Oprah Winfrey will receive GLAAD’s Vanguard Award for championing allyship and making a significant difference in promoting acceptance of LGBTQ people and issues Niecy Nash- Betts will receive the Stephen F. Kolzak Award which goes to an out LGBTQ person who raises visibility for LGBTQ people and issues Additional special guests include: Matt Bomer, Victoria Monet, Jonathan Bailey, Jason Sudeikis […]

NOVA CYPRESS BLACK, Jett Garrison, Dana Aliya Levinson, Sav Rodgers, Noni Salma, Zeke Smith, and Rain Valdez have created authentic LGBTQ protagonists in stories that range from rom-com to thriller to sci-fi to sitcom and beyond.

[…] OK 73105  Subject: Request to Investigate Oklahoma Department of Education and Remove State Superintendent Ryan Walters Our community has experienced a terrible loss. On February 7, Nex Benedict, a 16-year-old 2STGNC+ (Two-Spirit, transgender, and gender non-conforming+) student of Choctaw descent, was brutally assaulted in the bathroom at Owasso High School and died the next […]

[…] laws, the disintegration of Florida-headquartered book banning extremists Moms for Liberty, and new efforts to finally curb the wildfire of book banning across the state that has been led by a handful of fringe activists – up to 600 book challenges were initiated by just two people, according to reports. The only explicitly anti-LGBTQ […]

[…] found that LGBTQ people were again the most harassed among marginalized demographic groups online. According to the ADL: “The survey found 76 percent of transgender respondents have been harassed online in their lifetimes, with 51 percent of transgender respondents being harassed in the past 12 months, by far the highest of any reported demographic […]

[…] on social media morphs into real life violence. Indeed, it is well known that the hate motivated murderers of Black, Jewish and LGBTQ Americans in recent years began their descent into extremism on social media. Just a few weeks ago, LGBTQ ally Lauri Carleton was shot and killed after a dispute over a Pride […]