GMI Your Stories | GLAAD https://glaad.org GLAAD rewrites the script for LGBTQ acceptance. Mon, 31 Mar 2025 16:04:00 +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 GMI Your Stories | GLAAD https://glaad.org 32 32 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 For Newark LGBTQ Leaders, Linking Environmental Justice and Queer Liberation Movements is the Key to Healthy Communities – Here’s Why https://glaad.org/newark-lgbtq-leaders-linking-environmental-justice-and-queer-liberation-movements-2025/ https://glaad.org/newark-lgbtq-leaders-linking-environmental-justice-and-queer-liberation-movements-2025/#respond Thu, 13 Mar 2025 11:29:09 +0000 https://glaad.org/?p=930995 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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]]> https://glaad.org/newark-lgbtq-leaders-linking-environmental-justice-and-queer-liberation-movements-2025/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 Thousands “Rise Up for Trans Youth” in New York City, Leading National Conversation on Denial of Healthcare Across Major Hospital Systems https://glaad.org/thousands-rise-up-for-trans-youth-in-new-york-city-leading-national-conversation-on-denial-of-healthcare-across-major-hospital-systems/ https://glaad.org/thousands-rise-up-for-trans-youth-in-new-york-city-leading-national-conversation-on-denial-of-healthcare-across-major-hospital-systems/#respond Mon, 10 Feb 2025 19:36:40 +0000 https://glaad.org/?p=928460 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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]]> https://glaad.org/thousands-rise-up-for-trans-youth-in-new-york-city-leading-national-conversation-on-denial-of-healthcare-across-major-hospital-systems/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 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 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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]]> https://glaad.org/lgbtq-missouri-based-activists-given-their-flowers-justice-horn-and-86-others-honored-at-leon-jordan-memorial-park/feed/ 0 One of Michigan’s Oldest Pride Centers Tells GLAAD How They’ve Continued to Meet the Moment For The LGBTQ Community in 2024 https://glaad.org/one-of-michigans-oldest-pride-centers-tells-glaad-how-theyve-met-the-moment-for-the-lgbtq-community-in-2024/ https://glaad.org/one-of-michigans-oldest-pride-centers-tells-glaad-how-theyve-met-the-moment-for-the-lgbtq-community-in-2024/#respond Wed, 21 Aug 2024 12:25:05 +0000 https://glaad.org/?p=914009 As part of its education and advocacy programming across the country, the GLAAD Media Institute, GLAAD’s training, research and consulting division, convened a meeting with local leaders and community advocates in Grand Rapids, Michigan hosted and organized by Equality Michigan and The Grand Rapids Pride Center.  Attendees who complete a program or session with the [...]

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]]> https://glaad.org/one-of-michigans-oldest-pride-centers-tells-glaad-how-theyve-met-the-moment-for-the-lgbtq-community-in-2024/feed/ 0 LGBTQ Houseless Voters in Atlanta Say They’ve Been Disproportionately Affected by Criminalization and Voting Laws https://glaad.org/lgbtq-houseless-voters-in-atlanta-say-theyve-been-disproportionately-affected-by-criminalization-and-voting-laws/ https://glaad.org/lgbtq-houseless-voters-in-atlanta-say-theyve-been-disproportionately-affected-by-criminalization-and-voting-laws/#respond Tue, 23 Jul 2024 18:38:07 +0000 https://glaad.org/?p=910911 As part of its education and advocacy programming across the country, the GLAAD Media Institute, GLAAD’s training, research and consulting division, convened a meeting with local leaders and community advocates in Atlanta, hosted by the City of Atlanta at Atlanta’s City Hall. Attendees who complete a program or session with the GLAAD Media Institute are [...]

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