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.
Centralized groups are interest groups with a headquarters, usually in Washington, DC, as well as members and field offices throughout the country. In general, these groupsâ lobbying decisions are made at headquarters by the group leaders. Most well-known organizations like the AARP and the NRA are centralized groups.