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GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, presented its fifth annual GLSEN Respect Awards to producer and writer Shonda Rhimes, philanthropist and entrepreneur David C. Bohnett and HBO at a ceremony in Los Angeles Oct. 9.

Football fans at this weekend's Super Bowl will be greeted by a message against antigay bullying, thanks to a donation to the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network of some huge video billboards. The PSA’s will become the first LGBT-themed ads to be shown to Super Bowl attendees. Grazie Media donated the space and the screens to air GLSEN's "Think Before You Speak" ad campaign, which features Wanda Sykes, Hillary Duff and the NBA's Grant Hill speaking out against bullying

Lady Gaga is donating a portion of the proceeds from "Born This Way (Country Road Edition)" to the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network.

The criminal minds star says credits Dan Savage to better understanding her fluid sexuality.

The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) revealed today their selection for 2010 GLSEN Educator of the Year award. Nebraska teacher Ferial Pearson has been awarded the prestigious title. There were roughly 100 nominations received.

Reality star Krisily Kennedy, who’s appeared on Bachelor Pad and The Bachelor, has come out as bisexual. A spin-off of the perennial fave The Bachelor, Bachelor Pad tosses several of the parent show’s all-stars into a co-ed Malibu mansion where they are forced to live in the same room and compete with each other on a series of challenges.

Out U.S. Women's National Soccer Team player Megan Rapinoe has joined GLSEN's (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network) Changing the Game: The GLSEN Sports Project to help create a safe environment for kids who fall under all sexual orientations and gender identity / expressions to participate in athletics and physical education.

The Real L Word’s Romi Klinger and Rose Garcia, along with the Bachelor’s openly bisexual contestant Krisily Kennedy, were on hand for the Women Who GLSEN event in Malibu on August 5, and filmmakers MJ Godges and Renee Sotile of Traipsing Thru Films caught up with them on the red carpet.

Advocacy groups have always inhabited a distinct place in society for being a resource when something needed to change for the betterment of a community or communities. It has just been announced that long-standing pro-rights group Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) has partnered with the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) to build a supportive bridge for LGBT students to report harassment, bullying, discrimination, and any other uncomfortable experience having to do with their status as LGBT students to the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Education Department.

The cast of Dancing with the Stars came out to support Chaz Bono at GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network), where he received the Hero’s Award Friday night, according to Entertainment Weekly. Ricki Lake, Hope Solo, Carson Kressley, J.R. Martinez and more showed up to support Chaz.

The anti-LGBT group Focus on the Family organized the event in response to GLSEN's 'sexual activism in classrooms.'