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.
In the years following the creation of the New York group, several GLAAD chapters were established in other cities. Since then the organization grew and shifted from being chapter-based to being nationally based with offices in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and other cities.