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"It isn't the first time that we've had to come together as a community and try and fight for our human rights." - Amber Glenn
07.02.2026 15:05 — 👍 182 🔁 40 💬 1 📌 4
In an interview with GLAAD, speedskater Conor McDermott-Mostowy reflects on his first #WinterOlympics. As the only out male athlete on Team USA, he’s making history in Milan.
"It is quite a relief to actually do it this time," Conor says.
Super Bowl LX and the Winter Olympics will feature notable visibility of LGBTQ people and allies, including the halftime show with Bad Bunny, performances and commercials with LGBTQ icons, and the most out Winter Games in history.
Get the fact sheet on LGBTQ participation and celebration here:
"Don Lemon’s arrest is a test for our country. Will we accept a future where journalists in the United States are hauled away in handcuffs for covering dissent? Or will we defend the principle that the press exists precisely to shine light into moments of conflict?"- @kerrykennedy.bsky.social
05.02.2026 18:33 — 👍 31 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
“I hope I can use my platform and my voice throughout these Games to try and encourage people to stay strong in these hard times. I know that a lot of people say you're just an athlete, like, stick to your job, shut up about politics, but politics affect us all."
05.02.2026 14:31 — 👍 122 🔁 25 💬 1 📌 0
“Especially now, I feel it’s a little bit of an obligation to be open and be vocal about it. To hopefully inspire other people, other queer kids, to be more open to getting into sports and showing that you can be, one, safe in sports, and also successful.”
05.02.2026 14:24 — 👍 32 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0The real danger is the politicians like Sen. Hawley and Sen. Schmitt who spend their time fighting against the first amendment right of freedom of speech and the ability of companies to create content and sell products that appeal to their audiences. (4/4)
04.02.2026 21:45 — 👍 21 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0LGBTQ stories are sought out by audiences of all ages and are regularly among the most popular and critically acclaimed films and TV shows. (3/4)
04.02.2026 21:45 — 👍 26 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0Stories about LGBTQ families are essential to creating entertainment that reflects the world around us, and companies should have the freedom to tell the stories that appeal to their customers. (2/4)
04.02.2026 21:45 — 👍 24 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Inclusivity is not propaganda, programming with LGBTQ characters is not a danger to children, and politicians who use ugly rhetoric to the contrary devalue LGBTQ Americans and families. (1/4)
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“The most important thing we can do today is to help this panel and our country understand who Nae is and what a beautiful American we have lost."
04.02.2026 16:20 — 👍 28 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
State legislative session has begun in many parts of the U.S., offering opportunities for state- and local-based activations for LGBTQ people, their families, and their allies.
Learn more about these LGBTQ-related bills activations in Kansas, Florida and Missouri here:
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Generation Z & HIV: An HBCU Tour is coming to Alabama State University February 5, 2026 at 6p ET. There will be a Fireside Chat featuring renowned artist, designer, and Montgomery native Antowan Fleeton, with Darian Aaron, GLAAD Senior Director of Local News: U.S. South. Also featuring Marcus Wilson, Senior Director, U.S. Public Affairs at Gilead Sciences, Dr. David Malebranche, Dr. Shakita Brooks Jones, Alabama HIV Advocates, and MGOA x Payton Productions.
The HBCU Tour is one way GLAAD and Gilead are arming those most at risk with the information necessary to safeguard their health.
03.02.2026 18:26 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
WATCH: @maddow.bsky.social spotlights a federal judge's blistering ruling noting the Trump administration's dehumanizing and dangerous rhetoric about immigrants from Haiti, about HIV, and other lies. The judge extended their Temporary Protected Status to stay in the U.S.
03.02.2026 17:33 — 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
"To every butch queen who was made to feel like you were too much - I’m the proof that was needed and the sign you have been waiting for. Be yourself!" Grammy winner Durand Bernarr, accepting his award with his parents on stage, for Best Progressive R&B album
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"When will the constitutional rights of the press stop being tested, stretched, and ignored to make an example out of those who tell the truth?" We joined other orgs and signed this letter from the National Association of Black Journalists in support of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort.
30.01.2026 20:17 — 👍 30 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0“I ain’t scared of nobody.”
In 2017, Don Lemon accepted GLAAD’s Davidson/Valentini Award at the GLAAD Gala in San Francisco.
Journalists are under siege in America by our own government.
The arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort have alarmed citizens nationwide, who do not want American freedoms and the rule of law to be replaced by harassment and state-sponsored disinformation.
The freedom of the press is a cornerstone of American democracy, but that pillar is being shockingly eroded by government intimidation.
"Journalists are under siege in America by our own government." -- @sarahkateellis.bsky.social
30.01.2026 19:26 — 👍 24 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0Everyday people are barely able to make ends meet, pay the rent, or afford groceries and health care.
Elected officials should start listening to the people and stop playing dangerous games with people’s lives. (4/4)
Every taxpayer and family should let their elected leaders know that their voices matter too and they must be allowed to review and comment on any government action that strips people’s rights and humanity. (3/4)
29.01.2026 22:49 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Transgender people, like all of us, deserve the dignity to be themselves and to be safe to go about their daily lives without harassment. (2/4)
29.01.2026 22:49 — 👍 22 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0Bills like Kansas’ SB 244 are exactly why everyday Americans are fed up with lawmakers who prioritize targeting innocent people instead of solving actual problems, and then have the gall to try to hide their actions. (1/4)
29.01.2026 22:49 — 👍 31 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0
A word of caution from Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings, to hospitals capitulating to threats over best practice health care supported by every major medical association: “You can’t appease someone who is hell-bent on destroying people’s lives. And that’s what’s happening.”
29.01.2026 18:20 — 👍 36 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0The bill will likely be vetoed but is almost certainly going to be overridden.
The bill invalidates current drivers licenses and birth certificates of trans people who have amended them previously to align with their gender identity.
This is one of the most extreme bill to pass.
Kansas just passed a monstrous bill enabling criminal penalties and vigilante lawsuits for trans people using the bathroom according to their gender identity and requires them to surrender their current drivers licenses and birth certificates if it does not match their sex assigned at birth.
28.01.2026 23:43 — 👍 3790 🔁 1676 💬 120 📌 242
We’re excited to introduce GLAAD Gaming’s 2026 Queer Emerging Developers cohort! These video game developers are passionate about their work in gaming and about creating authentic LGBTQ representation in the games they make.
28.01.2026 18:31 — 👍 36 🔁 19 💬 0 📌 1The other thing I will say about this interview: Anderson Cooper does a phenomenal job. He knows this is a huge yet, doesn't grandstand, just quietly asks simple questions and lets this woman tell her extraordinary story.
28.01.2026 14:50 — 👍 175 🔁 35 💬 5 📌 2
"Over half (532) of all incidents in 2025 specifically targeted transgender and gender non-conforming people, marking a 10 percent increase from the 485 incidents in 2024."
28.01.2026 15:30 — 👍 46 🔁 25 💬 0 📌 2
GLAAD’s ALERT Desk is dedicated to telling the stories that often go unreported by the media and uninvestigated by law enforcement, and as the federal government has reduced recognition and accurate accounting of the LGBTQ community.
You can view GLAAD's 2025 ALERT Desk Recap here: (4/4)
Instead of growing divides that lead to this violence, politicians should recognize that all Americans deserve freedom, fairness, and safety. (3/4)
27.01.2026 15:36 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
