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GLAAD Gold Medal Winner: ABC World News Tonight looks at violence against...
For focusing media attention on the violence and intimidation faced by LGBT Russians, ABC World News Tonight earns the GLAAD Gold Medal for LGBT inclusive coverage of the Olympics.In a segment aired...
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LGBT Ugandans react to #glaadawards nomination for Advocate.com piece
In 2013, LGBT Ugandans worked with photographer David Robinson and Advocate.com to share their story in their own words. In the piece 12 activists talk about their work, their life experiences, and the...
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VIDEO: Janet Mock becomes New York Times Best Selling Author with Redefining...
Janet Mock is having quite a month, but there is no doubt that audiences are listening closely to her message and like what they're hearing. Her new memoir, Redefining Realness, has earned a spot on...
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For Valentine's Day, meet Olga and Maria, a Russian couple in love
The book Gay Propaganda, edited by Masha Gessen and Joseph Huff-Hannon, provides a platform from which LGBT Russian voices can be heard. Gay Propaganda includes stories form gay couples raising their...
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White House considering ENDA executive order, says Labor Secretary Perez
The Washington Blade questioned Labor Secretary Thomas Perez on Wednesday about the state of employment protections for the LGBT community under the Employment Non-Discriminatoin Act (ENDA), as well...
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Changing our approach to ending "gay conversion therapy," as told by the New...
A recent op-ed in the New York Times, entitled "Ending 'Gay Conversion' For Good" challenged readers to reconceptualize the best way to put an end to so-called anti-gay "conversion therapy." Instead of...
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Daytime sweethearts Will and Sonny to get engaged on Valentine's Day
Today Days of Our Lives announced the engagement of Will Horton and Sonny Kiriakis in an exclusive story by The Advocate. The couple will become engaged in tomorrow's Valentine's Day episode. Sonny was...
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Biola Queer Underground to host panel on being transgender and Christian
On Saturday, February 22, 2014, GLAAD's former intern Summer will be moderating a panel discussion about being transgender and Christian, organized by Natasha Magness for her project "Outreach to LGBT...
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Kansas' discrimination bill too discriminatory to pass
A bill that passed by the Kansas House on February 12th providing cover for anyone who refuses to provide services to LGBT people will not pass the Kansas senate as it is currently written. Senate...
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Barney Frank nominates Athlete Ally founders to Vanity Fair's Hall of Fame
Former congressman Barney Frank has nominated Hudson Taylor and Lia Parifax to the Vanity Fair Hall of Fame for their role fighting homophobia in sports. Frank lists off the reasons why the work of...
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The Advocate's op-ed reflects on significance of Facebook's new gender...
Allison Palmer, GLAAD's former Vice President of Campaigns and Programs, worked closely with Facebook as the social networking site prepared to greatly expand users' gender identity options. This week,...
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Snapshots: Latin American advocates delegation, Trans advocates media...
Wonder what we’re up to at GLAAD?Be sure to check out GLAAD's Blog each week for updates about our latest work to build support for LGBT equality through news, entertainment, and online media.For...
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MTV's '1 Girl 5 Gays' co-host Matthew Santos passes away
The MTV Canada comedic talk show 1 Girl 5 Gays confirmed this weekend that co-host Matthew Santos had passed away at age 28. They wrote on the series' Facebook page:"It is with profound sadness that we...
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One man's fight to end HIV stigma and fall in love
Reed Vreeland was born with HIV, but that has not stopped the 27 year old from falling in love and advocating to put an end to HIV stigma. Reed found out about his HIV status when he was 7 years old...
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NIGERIA: Mob attacks 14 gay men
In Nigeria, a group of men forcefully entered the homes of 14 men who were suspected of being gay. The mob, armed with clubs dragged the men into the streets and beat them. Inside of the homes, the...
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The women of GLAAD
GLAAD's CEO and President Sarah Kate Ellis and Director of Spanish-Language Media Monica Trasandes were profiled by Edge recently.Ellis is one of several women in highly visible and influential...
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Italy's first trans former MP and Pussy Riot members among those arrested in...
Vladimir Luxuria, Europe's first openly transgender parliamentarian and former Italian MP, was detained in Sochi, Russia over the weekend under the country's anti-LGBT, so-called "propaganda law." The...
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VIDEO: Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni announces that he will sign the...
Last Friday, the President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni announced that he will sign the Anti-Homosexuality Bill passed earlier by the parliament. Such bill includes a life sentence for members of the...
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Louisiana insurers use loophole to deny AIDS patients insurance
The state of Louisiana has only three insurance companies offering healthcare insurance under the Affordable Care Act, and all three are denying insurance to people who are HIV positive. Blue Cross and...
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VIDEO: CeCe McDonald talks trans people with Laverne Cox on Democracy Now
CeCe McDonald visited the GLAAD office in New York City after telling the story of her attack and subsequent imprisonment to Democracy Now. CeCe was joined on Democracy Now by transgender actress and...
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