Stories of people living with HIV among 28th Annual GLAAD Media Awards nominees

Today, GLAAD announced the nominees for the 28th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, and the list includes several stories of LGBTQ people living with HIV and AIDS. ABC’s How to Get Away with Murder, Amazon’s Transparent, and Showtime’s Shameless are the only scripted series on television to include HIV-positive characters. Both How to Get Away with Murder and Shameless educated audiences on relationships between serodiscordant couples (one … Read more

Mexico’s LGBT community roars disapproval at film on gay adoption

Advocates are seeing red over an upcoming film called “Pink” that appears to be filled with stereotypes and negative messages about same-sex couples adopting children. The poster asks the question: “gay adoption—success or mistake?” Advocates have started a change.org petition asking the country’s human rights commission to look into whether the film is homophobic. Its opening is … Read more

The National Hispanic Latino Agenda demonstrates their deep support for LGBTQ Latinos in their policy statements

By Janet Arelis Quezada, Spanish Language Media Strategist at GLAAD | March 3, 2016 On Monday a coalition of 40 Latino organizations operating as the National Hispanic Latino Agenda sent out a press release highlighting their policy priorities which include strong support for issues that impact lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Latinos. Although some of the … Read more