ALERT Desk | GLAAD https://glaad.org GLAAD rewrites the script for LGBTQ acceptance. Fri, 18 Apr 2025 20:06:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 https://media.glaad.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/20110814/cropped-glaad-cyan-icon-32x32.png ALERT Desk | GLAAD https://glaad.org 32 32 Heroes of the Resistance: Standing Up for LGBTQ Rights in Employment, the First Amendment, Health Care, Marriage Equality, and More. https://glaad.org/heroes-of-the-resistance-standing-up-for-lgbtq-rights-in-employment-the-first-amendment-health-care-marriage-equality-and-more/ https://glaad.org/heroes-of-the-resistance-standing-up-for-lgbtq-rights-in-employment-the-first-amendment-health-care-marriage-equality-and-more/#respond Fri, 18 Apr 2025 14:47:30 +0000 https://glaad.org/?p=934914 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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]]> https://glaad.org/heroes-of-the-resistance-standing-up-for-lgbtq-rights-in-employment-the-first-amendment-health-care-marriage-equality-and-more/feed/ 0 Election 2025: Wisconsin’s Supreme Court Candidates on the Record https://glaad.org/election-2025-wisconsins-supreme-court-candidates-on-the-record/ https://glaad.org/election-2025-wisconsins-supreme-court-candidates-on-the-record/#respond Mon, 24 Mar 2025 19:40:34 +0000 https://glaad.org/?p=932079 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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]]> https://glaad.org/election-2025-wisconsins-supreme-court-candidates-on-the-record/feed/ 0 Fact Sheet for Reporters: Trump’s Pardon of Jan 6th Insurrectionists https://glaad.org/fact-sheet-for-reporters-trumps-pardon-of-jan-6th-insurrectionists/ https://glaad.org/fact-sheet-for-reporters-trumps-pardon-of-jan-6th-insurrectionists/#respond Wed, 29 Jan 2025 21:35:23 +0000 https://glaad.org/?p=927598 Following his inauguration on January 20, 2025, President Trump issued full commutations and pardons to those indicted and/or sentenced in relation to the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.  The order explicitly granted clemency for nine members of the Oath Keepers and five members of the Proud Boys, two well-known violent extremist [...]

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]]> https://glaad.org/fact-sheet-for-reporters-trumps-pardon-of-jan-6th-insurrectionists/feed/ 0 Donald Trump’s Dangerous Pardon of Jan 6th Insurrectionists https://glaad.org/donald-trumps-dangerous-pardon-of-jan-6th-insurrectionists/ https://glaad.org/donald-trumps-dangerous-pardon-of-jan-6th-insurrectionists/#respond Wed, 29 Jan 2025 21:28:33 +0000 https://glaad.org/?p=927597 See our fact sheet on this topic for reporters here.  On January 20, 2025, newly-inaugurated President Donald Trump issued a series of sweeping executive orders that included disinformation about transgender people and demanding federal agencies begin to roll back measures to support diversity, equity, and inclusion across the federal government. In the chaos that followed [...]

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]]> https://glaad.org/donald-trumps-dangerous-pardon-of-jan-6th-insurrectionists/feed/ 0 “2.5 ANTI-LGBTQ INCIDENTS EVERY DAY OF 2024” – GLAAD’S ALERT DESK RELEASES NEW DATA ON RISING ANTI-LGBTQ HATE AND EXTREMISM https://glaad.org/releases/glaads-alert-desk-releases-new-data-on-rising-anti-lgbtq-hate-and-extremism/ Tue, 14 Jan 2025 14:17:15 +0000 https://glaad.org/?post_type=releases&p=926196 (New York, NY — January 14, 2025) GLAAD, the world’s leading LGBTQ media advocacy organization, is releasing new metrics on anti-LGBTQ hate in 2024 from the ALERT Desk, our anti-LGBTQ extremism reporting tracker. In 2024, the ALERT Desk tracked at least 918 anti-LGBTQ incidents across the US – the equivalent of 2.5 incidents every day. [...]

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]]> FBI Issues Alert on Anti-LGBTQ and Racist Text Messages https://glaad.org/fbi-alert-text-messages/ https://glaad.org/fbi-alert-text-messages/#respond Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:55:37 +0000 https://glaad.org/?p=923601 The FBI issued a statement on November 15th and included details of text campaigns that have expanded from racist texts targeting Black people to “high school students, as well as both the Hispanic and LGBTQIA+ communities. Some recipients reported being told they were selected for deportation or to report to a re-education camp. The messages [...]

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]]> https://glaad.org/fbi-alert-text-messages/feed/ 0 2024 GLAAD ALERT Desk Report https://glaad.org/2024-alert-desk/ Thu, 03 Oct 2024 15:48:36 +0000 https://glaad.org/?post_type=publication&p=927418 GLAAD’s Anti-LGBTQ Extremism Reporting Tracker Disclaimer: Readers should be aware that the following report contains details of hate speech and violence targeting LGBTQ people. Please skip to the final report section “Combating Anti-LGBTQ Hate” if you wish to avoid that content. On June 1, 2022, GLAAD’s ALERT Desk began tracking incidents of hate and harassment [...]

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