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Get to Know These Eight Shining GLAAD Media Institute Alumni Included #GLAADaward-Nominated Projects This Year

Lana Leonard — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 15:32:12 +0000

Throughout the country the GLAAD Media Institute – the organization’s training, consulting, and research leg – met thousands of LGBTQ change agents working together to bring representation, accuracy, and truth to journalism that covers the at-large LGBTQ community. Eight stories featuring GLAAD Media Institute alumni – those that have partnered with GLAAD’s “Going Local” programming [...]

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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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GOOD NEWS: LGBTQ Youth Activists in Texas Curb Censorship and New Jersey Law Protects Transgender Students from Discrimination

Lana Leonard — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:47:09 +0000

Major legal victories break through the anti-LGBTQ fury of the current administration and anti-LGBTQ politicians against youth and teen populations across the country. In Texas, the student-led policy organization Students Engaged in Advancing Texas (SEAT) championed additional temporary injunctions on a Texas law barring freedom of speech for minors. Meanwhile, New Jersey Superior Court upheld [...]

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Thousands “Rise Up for Trans Youth” in New York City, Leading National Conversation on Denial of Healthcare Across Major Hospital Systems

Lana Leonard — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 19:36:40 +0000

This weekend, thousands of people rallied for transgender (or trans), nonbinary, Two-Spirit, and gender nonconforming youth faced with appointment cancellations, and lags in prescription refills by leading New York City caregivers like NYU Langone, Mt. Sinai and New York Presbyterian, according to parents and families impacted. The cancellations and medication refill lags are in direct [...]

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One Year Later, Cecilia Gentili Lives on Through Her One-Woman Show, ‘RED INK’

Lana Leonard — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 12:00:31 +0000

It was August 18, 2024, at about 7 p.m., and the doors to the Rattlestick Theatre were not yet open. Entering up past the 17-step walkway, a young long-haired theater employee smiled. “Can you please come back in 5-to-10 minutes? We should be ready then,” they said. That night, the theater filled just before a [...]

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New Jersey LGBTQ Advocates from Garden State Equality Say They’ll Continue to Pushback with Facts

Lana Leonard — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 16:30:28 +0000

LGBTQ activists in New Jersey say they’re fortunate to live in New Jersey as the new administration kicks-off its term by attacking the transgender community and diversity initiatives. Advocates at Garden State Equality say New Jersey sets a standard for legal equality that can inspire states throughout the country. As part of its education and [...]

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LGBTQ Advocates Work to Expand Access, Prepare Communities for Upcoming Anti-LGBTQ Agenda in Washington

Lana Leonard — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 13:00:35 +0000

LGBTQ advocates known as GLAAD Media Institute (GMI) Alumni are sharing their action plans for 2025 and beyond. At the top of their minds are transgender equality, immigration, racial and healthcare justice, and affordability as each prepares for a second Trump term. From New York City to Georgia and Michigan, these GMI alums are activating [...]

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Queer and Transgender Public Officials Tell GLAAD that Bullying Transgender People is Not the Way Forward

Lana Leonard — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:33:52 +0000

Earlier this month, the GLAAD Media Institute’s Education & Advocacy team traveled to Washington, D.C. in advance of the Victory Institute’s 2024 LGBTQ International Leaders Conference, to train and consult public officials on how to best message for their constituents and proactively thwart anti-LGBTQ messaging when on the campaign trail. The GLAAD Media Institute is [...]

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Post-Election, LGBTQ Leaders Across the U.S. Are Joining Together — Prepare to Meet a “New Crop of Activists”

Lana Leonard — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 22:01:45 +0000

As part of its education and advocacy programming across the country, the GLAAD Media Institute, GLAAD’s training, research and consulting division, convened meetings with local leaders and community advocates throughout the nation. Attendees who complete a program or session with the GLAAD Media Institute are immediately deemed GLAAD Media Institute Alumni, who are equipped to [...]

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LGBTQ Voters Share 2024 Post-Election Strategic Focuses at National LGBTQ Community Center Leadership Summit

Lana Leonard — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 13:00:59 +0000

Chicago was an appropriate host for the 2024 Community Center Leadership Summit, where the national association of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community centers convened hundreds of nonprofit leaders throughout the nation. Illinois, sandwiched within the midwest, a region most certain to inform the direction of the Presidency on November 5, became a week-long hub [...]

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