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Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)
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Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) 's Interests
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The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is dedicated to promoting and ensuring fair, accurate and inclusive representation of people and events in the media as a means of eliminating homophobia and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.
To commemorate the historic telecast of the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards on Bravo, you can host or attend a Watch & Win party, receive a free one-year GLAAD membership and have a chance at winning tickets to the GLAAD media Awards in LA or NY in 2009! Go to www.glaad.org to find out more and register today!
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Want to find out ways that you can hold media accountable for their coverage of our issues? GLAAD's Newsroom '08 website has resources to help you to read between the lines and get the inside scoop on how the media is talking about our issues all throughout the election year.
Behind the Scenes at the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards
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About me: Watch a promo of the GLAAD Media Awards on Bravo and then watch the entire show this Friday, June 27 @ 7pm ET/PT!
Watch celebrities on the red carpet at the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards.
Do you remember the first time you saw a gay character on TV? Or the first time you read a profile of an openly gay or lesbian leader in your local newspaper.
At GLAAD, we are in the business of changing people's hearts and minds through what they see in the media. We know that what people watch on TV or read in their newspaper shapes how they view and treat the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people around them. And we have a responsibility to make sure those images foster awareness, understanding and respect.
When media images of our lives are fair, accurate and inclusive, we find ourselves increasingly welcomed into a society that respects difference. When they're not -- when stereotypes and misinformation pollute the well of cultural acceptance -- we become vulnerable to anti-gay forces working to create a world in which we do not exist.
Everyday our stories -- yours, mine, those of our families and friends -- open the truth of our lives to the people we share them with. In the same way, when the media tell our stories well, people in small towns, big cities and everywhere in-between find a window on our lives that broadens and deepens their understanding of who we are. Same principle -- infinitely larger scale.
Fair, accurate and inclusive media images shatter stereotypes. They prove that we are connected through common, human experiences. These are stories that we -- and the media -- have a responsibility to share.
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GLAAD College Media Reference Guide
The GLAAD College Media Reference Guide is a resource for college journalists covering stories about the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. It is split into two sections to cover reporting of sexual orientation and gender identity. Both sections provide a glossary of terminology frequently used to describe gay and transgender communities. The Guide also addresses problematic language that should be avoided in responsible journalism and identifies defamatory language that dehumanizes and marginalizes the subject of a story when it is used.
The Guide is a product of GLAAD’s Young Adult Media program, which was launched in 2007. Working on campuses across the country to promote equality and visibility, GLAAD serves as a resource to college journalists, and trains students and campus leaders to be more effective in changing hearts and minds through media advocacy and fighting defamation.
GLAAD Media Reference Guide, 7th Edition
Over the past two decades, Americans have experienced a significant evolution in their understanding and cultural acceptance of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender lives.
Consequently, media coverage of gay and lesbian issues (and increasingly, bisexual and transgender issues) has moved beyond simplistic political dichotomies and toward more fully realized representations not only of the diversity of our community, but also of our lives, our families, and our fundamental inclusion in the fabric of American society.
Journalists realize that LGBT people have the right to fair, accurate and inclusive reporting of their stories and their issues. And GLAAD's Media Reference Guide, now in its seventh edition, offers the tools they can use to tell our stories in ways that bring out the best in such journalism.
The GLAAD Network Responsibility Index is intended to serve as a road map of the quantity and quality of images of lesbian, gay, bisexual andtransgender (LGBT) people on network television.
Based on the overall quantity, quality and diversity of LGBT representation, this report assigns a grade to the major broadcast networks based on their inclusion of LGBT characters and people.
Your organization is simply the best. Though there is still so much to do, but its a whole lot easier for me to do things locally b/c you stand beside me nationally! Thanks GLAAD!
Love & Respect the work glaad does, in the crowd of supporters my Family & I are always there. Much Joy, Happiness & Good-will. Thanks for the Add ~ Virago
