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- GAY AMERI 2021: GAY FIGUR– RASHAD ROBSON, CIVIL RIGHTS LEAR
- RASHAD ROBSON, SENR DIRECTOR OF MEDIA PROGRAMS, GLAAD (GAY & LBIAN ALLIANCE AGAST DEFAMATN) (NEW YORK, NY)
GAY AMERI 2021: GAY FIGUR– RASHAD ROBSON, CIVIL RIGHTS LEAR
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Rashad beme the senr director of media programs at the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD), and went to work spearheadg the velopment of GLAAD’s Media Field Strategy divisn, which has helped build a munitns astcture wh movement anizatns, and provid strategic media support, trags, and msage velopment stat across the untry, supportg succsful iativ to change public opn and policy. Among this year's honore are trans thor, activist, and journalist Ja Mock; Orange Is the New Black star and Emmy nomee Laverne Cox; Rashad Robson, a gay man who is executive director of Color of Change, an anizatn dited to "strengtheng the polil voice of Black Ameri"; and New York Tim lumnist Charl Blow, who has wrten about his attractn to both men and women but exprsed disfort wh the term "bisexual.
She is also the first transgenr person ever to be featured on the ver of Time executive director of Color of Change, Robson is the only openly gay lear of a black civil rights anizatn. The media activist discs workg wh the prs, brgg queer people of lor to the limelight and how feels to e out as a gay Black man every day. You started at the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Discrimatn (GLAAD) two years ago as director of media field strategy, and now you’ve moved to a senr learship role as director of media programs.
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