The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), has announced it will honor LGBT equality advocate, author and speaker Chaz Bono at the 23rd annual GLAAD Media Awards presented nationally by Ketel One and Wells Fargo. Bono will receive the Stephen F. Kolzak Award at the Los Angeles ceremony April 21 at the Westin Bonaventure…
The board of directors at GLAAD announced Saturday the appointment of the organization’s new president Herndon Graddick. “Herndon Graddick is already a well-respected leader within the LGBT movement, and we believe will be a visionary and strategic leader for GLAAD’s culture-changing work,” said Sheri Fults, National Co-Chair of the Board of Directors. “Right now GLAAD…
LOS ANGELES (CNN – San Diego LGBT Weekly) — The Miss Universe organization announced Tuesday it is ending its ban on transgender contestants after coming under scrutiny recently when a Canadian competitor was told she would be disqualified because she was born male. Miss Universe officials insist the change is in spite of, not because…
NEW YORK – The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has announced the launch of its Commentator Accountability Project. The project aims to educate the media about the extreme rhetoric of over three dozen activists who are often given a platform to speak in opposition to LGBT people and the issues that affect their…
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has announced that The Weinstein Company co-chairman and anti-bullying advocate Harvey Weinstein will present a Special Recognition Award to high school student Katy Butler at the 23rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards March 24, 2012, at the Marriott Marquis in New York City. Seventeen-year-old Katy Butler launched a…
Anti-gay group One Million Moms (OMM) has announced that it has abandoned its call for daytime talk show host Ellen DeGeneres to be fired as J.C. Penney’s new spokesperson. OMM is a project of the American Family Association, an organization the Southern Poverty Law Center designates as a hate group. In an interview with Christian…
Former Growing Pains star and evangelist Kirk Cameron is responding to backlash he received in wake of his anti-gay, anti-lesbian remarks of homosexuality being “unnatural” and “ultimately destructive” following his interview with Piers Morgan Friday. The fallen TV idol issued a written statement to ABC News in which he says it’s his mission to love…
Former Growing Pains star, Kirk Cameron, has some apologizing to do after the child actor called homosexuality “unnatural” and “ultimately destructive to so many of the foundations of civilization” in a television interview with Piers Morgan Friday. “Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve….
Anti-gay group, OneMillionMoms.com has called for JC Penney to fire Ellen DeGeneres as its spokesperson because she is openly gay. On its Web site the group described Degeneres as “… not a true representation of the type of families that shop at their store.” Michael Francis, president of JC Penney said in a press statement,…
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has announced the nominees for its 23rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards. By recognizing and honoring media for outstanding images of the LGBT community, the GLAAD Media Awards serve as a benchmark for the media industry and complement GLAAD’s work to bring LGBT images and stories to Americans….
