GLAAD Media Institute Alumni | GLAAD https://glaad.org GLAAD rewrites the script for LGBTQ acceptance. Wed, 02 Apr 2025 21:25:14 +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 GLAAD Media Institute Alumni | GLAAD https://glaad.org 32 32 Pro-LGBTQ Candidates Prevail in Wisconsin’s Spring Election; Voters Reject Campaigns Targeting Transgender People https://glaad.org/pro-lgbtq-candidates-prevail-in-wisconsins-spring-election-voters-reject-campaigns-targeting-transgender-people/ https://glaad.org/pro-lgbtq-candidates-prevail-in-wisconsins-spring-election-voters-reject-campaigns-targeting-transgender-people/#respond Wed, 02 Apr 2025 21:24:44 +0000 https://glaad.org/?p=933027 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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]]> https://glaad.org/pro-lgbtq-candidates-prevail-in-wisconsins-spring-election-voters-reject-campaigns-targeting-transgender-people/feed/ 0 Get to Know These Eight Shining GLAAD Media Institute Alumni Included #GLAADaward-Nominated Projects This Year https://glaad.org/get-to-know-these-eight-shining-glaad-media-institute-alumni-included-glaadaward-nominated-projects-this-year/ https://glaad.org/get-to-know-these-eight-shining-glaad-media-institute-alumni-included-glaadaward-nominated-projects-this-year/#respond Thu, 20 Mar 2025 15:32:12 +0000 https://glaad.org/?p=931616 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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]]> https://glaad.org/get-to-know-these-eight-shining-glaad-media-institute-alumni-included-glaadaward-nominated-projects-this-year/feed/ 0 GOOD NEWS: LGBTQ Youth Activists in Texas Curb Censorship and New Jersey Law Protects Transgender Students from Discrimination https://glaad.org/good-news-lgbtq-youth-activists-in-texas-curb-censorship-and-new-jersey-law-protects-transgender-students-from-discrimination/ https://glaad.org/good-news-lgbtq-youth-activists-in-texas-curb-censorship-and-new-jersey-law-protects-transgender-students-from-discrimination/#respond Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:47:09 +0000 https://glaad.org/?p=928974 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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]]> https://glaad.org/good-news-lgbtq-youth-activists-in-texas-curb-censorship-and-new-jersey-law-protects-transgender-students-from-discrimination/feed/ 0 Missouri AG’s Lawsuit Aims to Undo Protections for LGBTQ Youth, Defends Harmful Practice of Conversion Therapy, as Local LGBTQ Advocates Respond https://glaad.org/missouri-attorney-general-lawsuit-lgbtq-youth-conversion-therapy-advocates-respond/ https://glaad.org/missouri-attorney-general-lawsuit-lgbtq-youth-conversion-therapy-advocates-respond/#respond Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:15:28 +0000 https://glaad.org/?p=928885 In a shameless and alarming move, Missouri Attorney General, Andrew Bailey, this week filed a lawsuit to reverse the protective bans on conversion therapy in Kansas City and Jackson County. This legal battle threatens to expose LGBTQ youth in the state to discredited, dangerous practices that have long been debunked by medical professionals and mental health [...]

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]]> https://glaad.org/missouri-attorney-general-lawsuit-lgbtq-youth-conversion-therapy-advocates-respond/feed/ 0 LGBTQ Advocates Work to Expand Access, Prepare Communities for Upcoming Anti-LGBTQ Agenda in Washington https://glaad.org/lgbtq-advocates-work-to-expand-access-prepare-communities-for-upcoming-anti-lgbtq-agenda-in-washington/ https://glaad.org/lgbtq-advocates-work-to-expand-access-prepare-communities-for-upcoming-anti-lgbtq-agenda-in-washington/#respond Tue, 07 Jan 2025 13:00:35 +0000 https://glaad.org/?p=925819 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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]]> https://glaad.org/lgbtq-advocates-work-to-expand-access-prepare-communities-for-upcoming-anti-lgbtq-agenda-in-washington/feed/ 0 Post-Election, LGBTQ Leaders Across the U.S. Are Joining Together — Prepare to Meet a “New Crop of Activists” https://glaad.org/post-election-lgbtq-leaders-across-the-us-are-joining-together-prepare-to-meet-a-new-crop-of-activists/ https://glaad.org/post-election-lgbtq-leaders-across-the-us-are-joining-together-prepare-to-meet-a-new-crop-of-activists/#respond Thu, 21 Nov 2024 22:01:45 +0000 https://glaad.org/?p=923876 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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]]> https://glaad.org/post-election-lgbtq-leaders-across-the-us-are-joining-together-prepare-to-meet-a-new-crop-of-activists/feed/ 0 LGBTQ Voters Share 2024 Post-Election Strategic Focuses at National LGBTQ Community Center Leadership Summit https://glaad.org/lgbtq-voters-share-2024-post-election-strategic-focuses-at-national-lgbtq-community-center-leadership-summit/ https://glaad.org/lgbtq-voters-share-2024-post-election-strategic-focuses-at-national-lgbtq-community-center-leadership-summit/#respond Sat, 02 Nov 2024 13:00:59 +0000 https://glaad.org/?p=921879 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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]]> https://glaad.org/lgbtq-voters-share-2024-post-election-strategic-focuses-at-national-lgbtq-community-center-leadership-summit/feed/ 0 Here’s How GLAAD Media Institute Alumni and Drag Queens in Nevada Are Getting Out The Vote Ahead of November 5th https://glaad.org/heres-how-glaad-media-institute-alumni-and-drag-queens-in-nevada-are-getting-out-the-vote-ahead-of-november-5th/ https://glaad.org/heres-how-glaad-media-institute-alumni-and-drag-queens-in-nevada-are-getting-out-the-vote-ahead-of-november-5th/#respond Fri, 01 Nov 2024 21:03:34 +0000 https://glaad.org/?p=922299 In the final days before election day, GLAAD Media Institute alumni, partnering with Silver State Equality and the LGBTQIA+ Community Center of Southern Nevada, in addition to drag queens hot off RuPaul’s Drag Race, have been motivating LGBTQ voters throughout Nevada to get to the polls before or on election day.  Rio Antone, who uses [...]

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]]> https://glaad.org/heres-how-glaad-media-institute-alumni-and-drag-queens-in-nevada-are-getting-out-the-vote-ahead-of-november-5th/feed/ 0 “Queer Voices NYC Film Festival” Convenes LGBTQ Filmmakers of Color with GLAAD on Sharing Their Stories with Entertainment & News Media https://glaad.org/queer-voices-nyc-film-festival-convenes-lgbtq-filmmakers-of-color-with-glaad-on-sharing-their-stories-with-entertainment-news-media/ https://glaad.org/queer-voices-nyc-film-festival-convenes-lgbtq-filmmakers-of-color-with-glaad-on-sharing-their-stories-with-entertainment-news-media/#respond Tue, 01 Oct 2024 18:54:51 +0000 https://glaad.org/?p=919241 During the second annual Queer Voices NYC (QVNYC) Film Festival, filmmakers joined the GLAAD Media Institute – GLAAD’s research, consulting, and training sector of the organization – for a media training to learn the most up-to-date messaging and media tools to speak about their projects to entertainment journalists and news media at-large. In the process, [...]

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]]> https://glaad.org/queer-voices-nyc-film-festival-convenes-lgbtq-filmmakers-of-color-with-glaad-on-sharing-their-stories-with-entertainment-news-media/feed/ 0 LGBTQ Missouri-based Activists Given Their Flowers: Justice Horn and 86 Others Honored at Leon Jordan Memorial Park https://glaad.org/lgbtq-missouri-based-activists-given-their-flowers-justice-horn-and-86-others-honored-at-leon-jordan-memorial-park/ https://glaad.org/lgbtq-missouri-based-activists-given-their-flowers-justice-horn-and-86-others-honored-at-leon-jordan-memorial-park/#respond Mon, 26 Aug 2024 14:02:48 +0000 https://glaad.org/?p=913993 Justice Horn’s name was enshrined on the Monument of Freedom, Courage, and Justice in Kansas City, Missouri on Saturday Aug. 24. The honor comes amid Horn’s dedication to the LGBTQ community as one of those that “did not say no” with a continued dedication to “freedom, justice, and courage.” The GLAAD Media Institute alum was [...]

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