The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) on Friday announced the award recipients for the 2011 GLAAD Amplifier Awards, an annual event honoring those that elevate and promote images in advertising that include fair and accurate representations of the LGBT community.

Blake Shelton, Country Male Vocalist of the Year and a judge on "The Voice," came under fire from GLAAD and LGBT advocates and allies on Thursday today a homophobic Twitter post about beating up another man for touching him.

Rosie O’Donnell will not be staying at the Trump Chicago hotel while she tapes her new talk show for the Oprah Winfrey Network, a rep for O’Donnell told The Advocate [...]

Facebook is becoming more LGBT-friendly. This week, the world's largest online social networking website added two new options to its list of relationship statuses: "in a civil union" and "in a domestic partnership."

Facebook is teaming up with Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLADD), The Trevor Project and others to form a new “Network of Support” to help combat bullying of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender teens.

CNN has come under fire from GLAAD for posting an online survey asking: “Is the surge in gay TV characters ‘bad for society’?” prompted by a segment on "Showbiz Tonight" about the "invasion" of gay characters on prime time TV.

Refusing to be ignored, GLAAD has teamed with the Black AIDS Institute and the National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC), and is calling on ABC's "The View," to correct misleading statements about the spread of HIV among African Americans.

NBC’s Today Show is taking applications for its “Modern Day Wedding Contest,” and will award the winning couple with a live wedding broadcast in October and an all-expense paid honeymoon -- but network rules deny gay and lesbian couples from participating.

Catch Will Phillips accepting the award for Outstanding TV Journalism Segment at the 21st Annual GLAAD Media Awards in New York on Saturday. Phillips appeared in the award winning segment [...]

The gay dating website Mancrunch.com is crying foul on CBS for rejecting a commercial that it had hoped would run during the Super Bowl on February 7. In a letter [...]

The HRC and GLAAD issued statements today condemning a sketch on CBS' Late Show with David Letterman Tuesday night, which mocked the appointment of Amanda Simpson to a senior position [...]

The Kansas City Chiefs have barred running back Larry Johnson from practice and all other team activities as the club and the NFL look into comments he made Monday to [...]

President Obama is preparing to nominate his first openly gay ambassador, according to a knowledgeable source. David Huebner, who serves as the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation's general counsel, [...]