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.
A gayâstraight alliance is a student-run club that brings together LGBT and straight students to create a platform for activism to fight homophobia and transphobia. There are also some groups that unite the LGBT community to work together with straight allies.