‘PROTECT OUR PRIDE’ LGBTQ COMMUNITY RESEARCH HUB AND GLAAD POP-UP SHOP
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Introducing “Protect Our Pride” with OUTFRONT and GLAAD!
A Message from GLAAD President & CEO, Sarah Kate Ellis:
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, EDUCATION & ADVOCACY
The GLAAD Media Institute (GMI), GLAAD’s training, research and consulting division works year-round to convene and coach community advocates, including local leaders and thousands of writers, creators and journalists across all levels of production and media. The GMI is also home to GLAAD’s core work in creative pipeline efforts for Hollywood and entertainment research & analysis, producing a number of innovative reports, studies and reporter guides throughout the year.
GMI programs activated in June include:
GLAAD’s Communities of Color Department: A leading force driving equitable and accurate representation of Black LGBTQ+ people, people living with HIV (PLWH), and queer communities of color in the realm of entertainment and media.
The Black List: A curated list of the most promising unmade LGBTQ-inclusive film scripts. Writers and creators are invited to submit their work now through July 1, 2024.
Equity in Media and Entertainment Initiative (EMEI): A three year long experience will support a different group of Black LGBTQ creatives across various disciplines, with the first year cohort made up of short form filmmakers, second year focused on music artists, songwriters, and producers, and choreographers rounding out the program as the third year cohort.
SUMMER OF GIVING
GLAAD has teamed up with America’s Blood Centers to launch Summer of Giving, a national blood drive campaign focused on advocacy and education on the implementation of new FDA guidance that expands blood donor eligibility to more LGBTQ people, especially for gay and bisexual men who, in the past, have faced discrimination around blood donor eligibility.
Summer of Giving runs from Tuesday, May 28, 2024, through National Blood Donation Day on Wednesday, September 4, 2024. Learn more here.
COMMUNITY
Protect This Kid, which reclaims anti-LGBTQ rhetoric around protecting children and refocuses on the most vulnerable children in need of that protection. The goals of this campaign are to inoculate moveable voters against anti-queer rhetoric and inspire LGBTQ and allied voters to get to the polls. Learn how to participate at ProtectThisKid.com
Here We Are is a storytelling campaign geared toward moveable voters, aimed at humanizing transgender people. This campaign leverages messaging that our research has shown to be most effective at increasing support for transgender Americans. HereWeAreNow.com
HELPFUL REPORTER GUIDES DURING PRIDE MONTH
- GLAAD’s 2024 Pride Month Fact Sheet, updated for the 2024 Pride Season, provides fast facts on research and data about the LGBTQ community, non-LGBT Americans’ perceptions, consumer sentiment, and more.
- GLAAD’s Media Reference Guide, now in its 11th edition, offers education and guidance on telling LGBTQ people’s stories in ways that bring out the best in journalism.
- Guía GLAAD, offers education and guidance on telling LGBTQ people’s stories in ways that bring out the best in journalism in Spanish-language media.
- GLAAD’s Transgender Representation in Media Team provides an array of resources and guidance to media professionals and creators seeking to tell stories of transgender people fairly and accurately.
- GLAAD’s Checklist for Media Reporting on Transgender People and Issues is a fact sheet and reporter guide to covering transfender people, topics and legislation.
- GLAAD’s Book Ban Guide for Community Response and Action is a comprehensive resource and toolkit for communities to defeat book ban attempts, and send a powerful signal of welcome and acceptance.
- The GLAAD Accountability Project monitors and documents individual public figures and groups using their platforms to spread misinformation and false rhetoric against LGBTQ people, youth, and allies.
- GLAAD’s 2024 Voter Poll indicates anti-trans campaigning is failing and includes the findings of a survey gauging motivation and top issues ahead of the 2024 general election in November.
Learn more about GLAAD’s work around community-convening and what’s at stake for LGBTQ people in this election cycle at GLAAD.org/VOTE.
