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‘PBS NewsHour’ Presented with 36th GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Live TV Journalism Segment

GLAAD — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 21:47:07 +0000

At the 36th GLAAD Media Awards, GLAAD honored journalists who cover LGBTQ people and issues with nuance, empathy, and perspective. This year’s news awards feature LGBTQ people from the halls of Congress to every day leaders and changemakers. PBS NewsHour won the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Live TV Journalism Segment for their post-election interview [...]

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Heroes of the Resistance: Standing Up for LGBTQ Rights in Employment, the First Amendment, Health Care, Marriage Equality, and More.

GLAAD — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 14:47:30 +0000

Much has happened this week in positive changemaking for the LGBTQ community at this time of challenge and uncertainty. Heroes in government, law, and in faith communities, are standing up to enormous pressure by the Trump administration and those emboldened by anti-LGBTQ rhetoric. Standing Up for LGBTQ Protections in Employment At the Equal Employment Opportunity [...]

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WATCH: “60 Minutes” Covers the Story of Gay Venezuelan Asylum Seeker With No Criminal Record Detained in El Salvador’s ‘Mega-Prison’

Allison Bloom, Communications Consultant — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 19:45:27 +0000

In his first 100 days in office, President Trump’s administration has deported or detained nearly 48,000 migrants in the United States. Of these individuals, many are legal residents and asylum seekers. Part of Trump’s crusade in his second term is to “eradicate” members of a Venezuelan gang known as Tren de Aragua. In doing this, [...]

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John Oliver Calls Out the Right Wing’s “Absolute Fixation” with Trans Athletes on “Last Week Tonight”

Allison Bloom, Communications Consultant — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 16:49:55 +0000

Last night, longtime ally John Oliver dedicated an entire episode of HBO’s Last Week Tonight to calling out the right wing’s “absolute fixation” on transgender athletes. He started the show noting that, “Even as the market crashed in the wake of Trump’s tariffs, Fox News spent a lot of time on this…” He then cut [...]

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Pro-LGBTQ Candidates Prevail in Wisconsin’s Spring Election; Voters Reject Campaigns Targeting Transgender People

GLAAD — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 21:24:44 +0000

Voters in Wisconsin have elected two candidates who support LGBTQ equality in the state’s hotly contested Spring Election. Susan Crawford was elevated to the state Supreme Court and Jill Underly will return as State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Both candidates defeated opponents and campaign ads that targeted LGBTQ people, including a late surge of ads [...]

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FAIR WISCONSIN AND GLAAD RESPOND TO SPRING ELECTION RESULTS IN WISCONSIN

Heidi Spillum, Web Producer — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 20:27:01 +0000

FAIR WISCONSIN: These results are a resounding rejection of the ugly politics of hate and fear, and they show a strong commitment to a Wisconsin that lives up to our state motto “Forward.” Thank you, Wisconsin, for voting for equality and against the cynical use of our LGBTQ+ community as political pawns. GLAAD: Wisconsin voters [...]

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Election 2025: Wisconsin’s Supreme Court Candidates on the Record

Jae Moore — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 19:40:34 +0000

Early voting has begun for the April 1 election for Wisconsin’s Supreme Court. Susan Crawford and Brad Schimel are running for a 10-year term. These are their records on LGBTQ issues: In response to the question from PBS Wisconsin, “Do trans people have any specific protections under the law? Are they a protected class? Do they [...]

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For Newark LGBTQ Leaders, Linking Environmental Justice and Queer Liberation Movements is the Key to Healthy Communities – Here’s Why

Lana Leonard — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 11:29:09 +0000

Newark, New Jersey LGBTQ activists are organizing to heal their city from redlining – the systematic denial of services, like mortgages, insurance, and other financial services, often based on race or ethnicity – and environmental discrimination to build a healthy, clean, and affordable place where bodily autonomy is never in question. These local leaders understand [...]

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GLAAD AMPLIFIES VOICES AGAINST REMOVAL OF TRANS PEOPLE, HISTORY FROM PARK SERVICE WEBSITE

Angela Dallara — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 14:14:34 +0000

(New York, NY – February 15, 2025) – GLAAD, the world’s leading LGBTQ media advocacy organization, is amplifying the voices of leaders and allies who yesterday gathered at the Stonewall National Monument in New York City to protest the Trump Administration’s removal of transgender and queer Americans from the Stonewall National Monument official government website. [...]

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Chris Mosier: “Trans athletes play sports for the same reasons as anybody else. For our love of the game.”

GLAAD — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 20:35:41 +0000

Chris Mosier is an out transgender athlete, and a trailblazer, and he’s speaking out about President Donald Trump’s executive order that seeks to ban transgender athletes from competing in women’s and girl’s school-sponsored sports. Mosier told CNN, “Sports has just been the entry point to other areas of discrimination against our community, including health care [...]

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