A city of contrasts, New Haven is a mix of colonial history, Ivy League college town, and past-its-prime industrial center. Once an important manufacturing center, it is known today as the home of prestigious Yale University.
With the new alliance, GLAAD, already a powerful watchdog group, will begin to monitor online media and build contacts with the tech community. GLAAD focuses on getting fair representations of gays and lesbians in film, television, and the news. Now it will also be watching cyberspace.
To learn more about how to be an ally to transgender people, please visit GLAAD's Tips for Allies of Transgender People page. For a guide to basic terminology, including defamatory terms and slurs to avoid, please see GLAAD's Media Reference Guide.