Sarah Kate Ellis
@sarahkateellis.bsky.social
President & CEO of GLAAD. Working to build a better future for the queer youth of tomorrow. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Audiences across the board are seeking out original and inclusive stories. @glaad.bsky.social's study found LGBTQ stories in film that are both commercially and critically successful. glaad.org/2026-where-w...
2026 Where We Are in Film Study | GLAAD
GLAAD’s Where We Are in Film is a reimagined version of our award-winning Studio Responsibility Index (SRI). This study continues to maps the quantity, quality and diversity...
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The Supreme Court's ruling on transgender youth participating in school sports is at odds with the fundamental principles of fairness, freedom, and family that define our country and our communities. (1/3)
GLAAD@glaad.bsky.social · last mo.TEAM LET TRANS KIDS PLAY SPORTS 🏳️⚧️
Out now: the Comptroller’s Office LGBTQIA+ 2026 Resource Guide. This guide connects LGBTQIA+ New Yorkers with essential resources including healthcare, legal, and more. Grateful to speak with @sarahkateellis.bsky.social president and CEO of @glaad.bsky.social about the importance of this resource.
Tech leaders must proactively embrace intentional practices to create safe products. Read my interview with @mashable.com
GLAAD finds AI can encourage homophobia, transphobia
GLAAD releases roadmap for LGBTQ inclusion in AI.
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HUD's proposed rule change targets protections based on sexual orientation as well as gender identity. Opponents of transgender people can, do, and will come after LGB people too. We must stand together against all attacks against any of us.
Elizabeth Warren warns new Trump federal housing rule could put LGBTQ+ people on the street
The Massachusetts senator says the administration is quietly enabling housing discrimination against LGBTQ+ Americans.
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✅ Respect data privacy: adopt privacy-by-design, minimize data collection, never infer identity without consent ✅ Engage LGBTQ communities from the earliest stages of development
GLAAD’s key recommendations for AI developers and deployers: ✅ Fix the foundation: ensure inclusive LGBTQ representation in training data ✅ Don't automate discrimination: audit agentic AI before it scales ✅ Maintain human oversight in content moderation
The AI industry can and must follow best practices. Biased training data can be corrected. Content moderation can protect LGBTQ voices instead of silencing them. Privacy safeguards and red-teaming with LGBTQ communities can be built in from day one.
AI is already shaping how people find information, apply for jobs, and engage with the world. The question isn’t whether AI will affect LGBTQ lives. It’s whether companies will build it responsibly.
Today GLAAD released “Build for Everyone,” our first comprehensive report on LGBTQ Responsible AI. It’s a roadmap for building AI that actually works for LGBTQ people — and everyone: glaad.org/2026-ai-repo...
2026 AI Report – Build for Everyone: A Framework for LGBTQ Representation and Safety in AI | GLAAD
In this inaugural report, GLAAD presents the tangible and unique ways that AI both impacts and shapes perceptions about our community.
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Neutrality is no longer an option. AI systems trained on data that wrongfully positions LGBTQ lives as ‘fringe’ or treats our equal rights as ‘controversial,’ or that fail to catch sophisticated disinformation about LGBTQ people, threaten our health, safety, and civil rights.
2026 AI Report – Build for Everyone: A Framework for LGBTQ Representation and Safety in AI | GLAAD
In this inaugural report, GLAAD presents the tangible and unique ways that AI both impacts and shapes perceptions about our community.
glaad.org
So excited to see MOLLY’S TUXEDO in @peoplemagazine.bsky.social as part of this awesome Pride list curated by @glaad.bsky.social president and CEO @sarahkateellis.bsky.social! Check out all 9 titles at the link in my bio and stories: people.com/9-lgbtq-book.... 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ #GillianReid #LittleBeeBooks
You can’t cancel Pride, no matter how hard you try. Families are made of love. We have families in the LGBTQ community and we celebrate them in Pride. (1/4) www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHqL...
‘You can’t cancel Pride, no matter how hard you try’: GLAAD CEO on some GOP rebranding June
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Today is the tenth anniversary of the the Pulse Nightclub shooting that happened on June 12, 2016. We remember the victims and honor them with action. 💔
For LGBTQ+ students, and for students of all backgrounds, access to books that reflect who they are and their experiences is not a luxury. It is part of a safe, inclusive learning environment. (1/3) www.advocate.com/opinion/hr76...
Don’t let Congress censor America’s school libraries
Republicans are considering legislation that could pressure schools to remove books about LGBTQ+ people, diverse families, and other topics by tying federal funding to vague content restrictions.
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These results of the @glaad.bsky.social 2026 Pride Poll confirm what most Americans already believe: we are at our best when we treat our friends, family, and neighbors with basic dignity and respect. (1/3) glaad.org/glaad-poll-s...
GLAAD Poll: Supermajority of Americans Support Brands Participating in Pride; Reject Political Attacks on Transgender People | GLAAD
GLAAD is releasing the results of a new poll showing registered voters’ top concern remains rising costs and inflation. Voters overwhelmingly believe politicians...
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“This is an existential fight – and we all need to be in it or risk losing democratic freedoms that have been hard-won over the past 250 years,” @sarahkateellis.bsky.social writes via @thewrap.com
The FCC’s Push for LGBTQ+ Labels Is a Bad Deal for Hollywood, GLAAD CEO Says | Guest Column
"This is an existential fight – and we all need to be in it or risk losing democratic freedoms that have been hard-won over the past 250 years."
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"The report appears to criticize so-called conversion therapy... 'every person, first and foremost, is singular, irreducible, irreplaceable, and original... created in the image and likeness of God.'” (1/3) www.washingtonblade.com/2026/05/07/n...
New Vatican report acknowledges LGBTQ Catholics feel isolated in the church
Document contains testimonies of two gay married men
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is targeting LGBTQ stories. They are trying to control what you see on television. This government overreach is dangerous to the existence of an independent and free media. Take action: glaad.org/fcc
Leading social media companies today do not meet basic best practices in content moderation, transparency, data privacy, and workforce diversity — and continuously refuse to meaningfully prioritize the safety, privacy, and expression of LGBTQ people and other marginalized communities. (1/5)
2026 Social Media Safety Index | GLAAD
The annual GLAAD Social Media Safety Index & Platform Scorecard evaluates six major social media platforms: TikTok, X, YouTube, and Meta’s Facebook, Instagram, and Threads...
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The freedom to read is not partisan. It is American. Tell Congress to oppose the Federal Book Ban Bill here: action.everylibrary.org/hr_7661
PETITION: Don't Let the Federal Government Regulate Your Reading
Not one country's freedom and liberty has ever been increased by banning books.
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Voters continue to turn the page on this shameful era of book banning and book banners. LGBTQ students, families, and staff, and our allies, deserve a safe place to learn and thrive. bsky.app/profile/tani...
Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 3mo agoLast night saw more setbacks for the Texas right in school boards. They already lost a lot of ground twelve months ago; yesterday, at least six conservative board members who’ve been at the forefront of book bans or policies restricting LGBT rights were ousted. boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
This Court has ruled against civil rights in more than half of cases since 2020, with extreme consequences for women, LGBTQ people, and minorities.
Supreme Court remade by Trump ushers in historic defeats for civil rights
The court is the first since at least the ’50s to reject claims in a majority of cases involving women and minorities, an analysis conducted for The Post shows.
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The Court’s decision “threatens a half-century’s worth of gains in voting equality,” Justice Kagan wrote. The South has the highest percentage of LGBTQ people in the US. One in four LGBTQ Southerners is Black.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe Supreme Court just dealt the Voting Rights Act a huge blow
First Jimmy Kimmel, now Brendan Carr is looking at LGBTQ+ content. “Parents should absolutely have a say in what their kids watch, and parents already know that seeing an LGBTQ person on screen or in real life does no harm,” GLAAD CEO Sarah Kate Ellis said. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...
Trump’s FCC targets LGBTQ+ television content. GLAAD sounds alarm
The agency, led by Brendan Carr, is reconsidering TV ratings for “gender identity themes,” prompting warnings about free speech and cultural control.
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@glaad.bsky.social joins civil rights leaders nationwide to condemn the partisan and deeply troubling attack against the Southern Poverty Law Center. For more than 50 years, SPLC has been a leader in the fight against racism, anti-LGBTQ hate, and all forms of violent extremism. (1/3)
Parents should absolutely have a say in what their kids watch, and parents already know that seeing an LGBTQ person on screen or in real life does no harm. What does cause harm is government overreach. (1/2)
GLAAD Slams FCC, Brendan Carr For "Harm On LGBTQ Americans"
Following Brendan Carr's latest proposed media crackdown, GLAAD has called out the FCC chair for his inquiry's "harm on LGBTQ Americans."
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