{"id":933075,"date":"2025-04-03T14:27:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T18:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glaad.org\/?p=933075"},"modified":"2025-04-24T16:28:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T20:28:47","slug":"glaad-media-awards-honor-journalists-and-excellence-in-lgbtq-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaad.org\/glaad-media-awards-honor-journalists-and-excellence-in-lgbtq-news\/","title":{"rendered":"GLAAD Media Awards Honor Journalists and Excellence in LGBTQ News"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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News category winners at the 36th GLAAD Media Awards<\/a> spotlight the importance of accurate and inclusive journalism in accelerating acceptance for LGBTQ people. They cover LGBTQ people as newsmakers, changemakers, and everyday members of their communities nationwide.<\/p>

The honorees were announced at GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles on March 27th, and included three awards for Spanish language news outlets.<\/p>

Forty years ago this year, lack of accurate LGBTQ representation in the news sparked the founding of GLAAD. GLAAD\u2019s founders, incensed as the media ignored or disparaged LGBTQ people suffering and dying in the early days of the HIV\/AIDS crisis, began working with reporters to cover the community and the crisis accurately, and to demand accountability from elected officials. It began to turn the tide of the epidemic and toward greater acceptance of LGBTQ people overall.<\/p>

\u201cWe used the powerful tool of media along with our allies to create a better and more equal world,\u201d GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis said in her address during the awards ceremony. \u201cAnd it worked. Because stories shift culture and rewrite narratives. They give people power to see beyond their own experience, to open their minds to those they have never met, and to challenge the prejudice they were handed.\u201d<\/p>

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