Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation

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Associated Locale
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Field of Activity
Gay people in mass media
Mass media and gay people
Sexual minorities in mass media

found: GLAAD annual report, 1997:p. 1 (GLAAD; Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) p. 8 (office locations: Atlanta, Kansas City, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Washington, D.C.)

found: GLAAD website, October 1, 2014:home page (GLAAD) about > our history (1985 - In response to the New York Post's grossly defamatory and sensationalized HIV/AIDS coverage, GLAAD is formed with its original name "Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation" to put pressure on media organizations to end homophobic reporting; 2013 - To highlight the organization's work with the entire LGBT community and allies, GLAAD formally drops the original name "Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation" and begins to exclusively use GLAAD as the organization's name) - http://www.glaad.org/ - http://www.glaad.org/about/history

found: Wikipedia, October 1, 2014(GLAAD (formerly the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) is a U.S. non-governmental media monitoring organisation founded by LGBT people in the media. Before March 2013, the name "GLAAD" had been an acronym for "Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation," but became the primary name due to its inclusiveness of bisexual and transgender issues; formed in New York City in 1985; within the first five years of its founding in New York as the Gay and Lesbian Anti-Defamation League (soon after changed to "Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation" after legal pressure by the Anti-Defamation League), GLAAD chapters had been established in Los Angeles and other cities; On March 24, 2013, GLAAD announced that it had formally dropped the "Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation" from their name and would now be known only as GLAAD to reflect their work more accurately)