NEW YORK – GLAAD Thursday released a fact check calling out White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders for peddling lies surrounding President Donald Trump’s announcement yesterday to ban transgender soldiers from openly serving in “any capacity” within the United States armed forces. Without any resources to justify the president’s clear discrimination, the Trump Administration…
NEW YORK – GLAAD today released a list of 25 ways President Donald Trump and his administration have attacked the LGBTQ community since taking office Jan. 20. The list stems from GLAAD’s Trump Accountability Project, which tracks the Administration’s anti-LGBTQ movements and calls on media to expose them. From erasing any mention of the LGBTQ…
NEW YORK – GLAAD, the world’s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, Friday released “What Texas’ Special Session Means For LGBTQ Texans,” a video highlighting Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s “special discrimination session” against the transgender community. The video is available ahead of the start to the special session on July 18th and forecasts what would be…
NEW YORK – GLAAD today voiced outrage over President Trump’s continued silence on the attacks against LGBTQ men in Chechnya – even as a list of victims have been released to the media. According to reports, about 27 men are believed to have been killed during the anti-LGBTQ purge that has taken place in Russia-controlled…
Today is National HIV Testing Day, and everyone is encouraged to “know your status.” The White House put out a statement recognizing this moment, stressing the importance of routine testing. The statement read in part: Today, there are 1.1 million people living with HIV in America, 15 percent of whom do not yet know their…
WASHINGTON, DC — The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and GLAAD has condemned the Trump Administration for celebrating an organization dedicated to undermining LGBTQ people and families. Friday, Vice President Mike Pence — who has his own long and extensive record opposing LGBTQ equality — spoke on behalf of the Trump administration at an anniversary celebration of…
NEW YORK – GLAAD today released research on Alex Jones, the founder of the debunked InfoWars Web site, who will appear on the next episode of NBC’s “Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly.” Jones is known for falsely calling the Sandy Hook massacre a “giant hoax” and claiming the Aurora mass shooting was a “false flag,”…
NEW YORK – GLAAD today released its fifth annual Studio Responsibility Index a report that maps the quantity, quality, and diversity of LGBTQ people in films released by the seven largest motion picture studios and their subsidiaries during the 2016 calendar year. GLAAD found that of the 125 releases from major studios in 2016, only…
NEW YORK – GLAAD have responded after President Donald Trump released the administration’s 2018 fiscal year budget, which highlights their key objectives and priorities in the upcoming fiscal year. The budget includes proposed slashes to programs and departments critical to the LGBTQ community, including Medicaid, Planned Parenthood, and the Center of Disease Control’s HIV and…
The Texas House Committee on Public Education is considering a bill, already passed by the State Senate, which could be used to ban transgender students on hormone replacement therapy (HRT) from athletic participation by allowing the University Interscholastic League (UIL) to label their medical treatment as steroid use. Currently, the UIL already bars the use of steroids but protects students…
