Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation ( GLAAD : Alliance of Gays and Lesbians Against Defamation ) is a non-profit organization of LGBT activists in the United States . It sees its purpose in promoting and ensuring a “fair, correct and inclusive representation of people and events in the mass media as a means against homophobia and against discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation ”.
job
Not only, but also through the work of GLAAD, gays and lesbians are represented in a wide variety of media today, from newspaper articles to soap operas and comic strips. Negative and unbalanced reports about lesbian and gay society have decreased. The organization sees future tasks primarily as the visibility of transgenders and bisexuals , the representation of the whole diversity of the queer community and the correct representation of relationships. GLAAD is an important source of resources and information on this topic and makes them available to the entertainment and news media and also organizes training courses for editors and managers. However, no excessive demands are made and entertainment media director Scott Seomin says: "We can not only ask for beautiful depictions of selfless organ donors who transcribe books for the blind in their free time."
GLAAD is involved in various coalitions such as local and national groups that want to change the Don't ask, don't tell policy of the military, the National Freedom to Marry coalition and the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs .
One of the most visible programs is the annual GLAAD Media Awards . These recognize individuals and projects in the mainstream media and entertainment industry in the United States for their fair, careful, inclusive and positive portrayal of LGBT society and the issues that affect their lives. Awards will be held in Los Angeles , Miami , New York City and San Francisco .
GLAAD was named one of the 100 Most Powerful Entities in Hollywood by Entertainment Weekly in 1992 . The Los Angeles Times described GLAAD as "probably the most successful organization lobbying the media for inclusion ."
structure
Offices exist in New York City, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
The Executive Board consists of current President Neil G. Giuliano , Development and Finance Director Julie Anderson, Communications Director Marc C. McCarthy, HR Director and Administrator Michelle MacGaffey, and Media Programs Director Rashad Robinson. There is also a supervisory board with 36 members.
The work is divided into five regions:
- The state of California with the media metropolis Hollywood is a separate region.
- The Western Region includes the states of Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.
- The Central Region includes the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
- The Southern Region includes the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas.
- The Eastern Region includes the states of Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Paul Karr is in charge of supervision and there is also a higher-level coordinator.
There are also other employees and members.
history
The representation of people of the same sex in the media has long been a major problem. The words gay and a little less lesbian were mostly frowned upon. The portrayal of homosexual people fell into two main categories: defamatory and negative and non-existent. There is now a much broader and also positive presentation.
GLAAD was founded in 1985 in New York by Arnie Kantrowitz , Darrell Yates Rist and Vito Russo to protest the sensationalist and slanderous AIDS coverage of the New York Post . The reporting of the Post underlined the problem of the general lack of queer representation in the media and the use of homophobic stereotypes when gays became visible on rare occasions. Shortly thereafter, GLAAD began on the other side of the United States, in Los Angeles, to convince the Hollywood entertainment industry of the importance of a more careful and realistic portrayal of gays and lesbians in film and television. Local chapters were formed in Atlanta , Dallas , Denver , Kansas City , Los Angeles, San Diego , San Francisco, and Washington, DC , before becoming a national organization in 1995.
In the first few years some groundbreaking successes were achieved. In 1986 the Los Angeles produced weekly radio show Naming Names was started, which became available for 600 radio stations in the USA. In 1987, after discussions with GLAAD, the New York Times changed its editorial policy to use the term gay instead of homosexual . Following a request from GLAAD, the United States Postal Service canceled the letters with a special postmark in June 1989, 20 years after Stonewall . In 2002, the Announcing Equality project had 140 newspapers across the country - including the New York Times - listing registered partnerships and same-sex marriages alongside other wedding ads . In 2004 there were already 504 newspapers. The content filter manufacturer Cyber Patrol once blocked all websites that dealt with homosexuality, whether it was pornography, human rights organizations or political groups. After an intervention by GLAAD, the manufacturer corrected its position and added members of GLAAD to its advisory team.
GLAAD also influenced long-range coverage. After the murder of Matthew Shepard in 1998, they helped coordinate the media hype and the night watch in Laramie . They also drew media attention to the murders of Brandon Teena (1993), Arthur Warren (2000), Fred Martinez (2001), Gwen Araujo (2002) and others such as the anti-gay statements by Laura Schlessinger , Trent Lott and Rick Santorum or the offensive ones Lyrics by Eminem .
literature
- Vincent A. Doyle: The visibility professionals: The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and the cultural politics of mainstreaming , 2005, doctoral thesis at the University of Massachusetts Amherst , abstract
See also
Web links
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- ↑ Press release : GLAAD RESPONDS TO ANTI-GAY REMARKS MADE BY STATE LEGISLATOR , glaad.org, March 10, 2008
- ↑ Heike Hupertz: TV - facial skin oily, clothes from the Salvation Army , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, July 19, 2003, No. 165 / page 40
- ↑ Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) ( Memento from October 19, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Our History ( Memento of May 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), glaad.org, accessed March 12, 2008
- ↑ A short breakdown of filter technology , tecchannel.de, March 22, 2001
- ^ I check black nationalists and rainbow coalitions. Malmoe on the web, January 23, 2016; accessed July 2, 2017 .