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.
Presented Saturday in New York, winners of the 21st Annual GLAAD Media Awards also include the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation, MSNBC s The Rachel Maddow Show, the Lifetime network film Prayers for Bobby and a report on CNN s American Morning program called Why Will Won t Pledge Allegiance.