The article reports on the 20th anniversary of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) in 2006. More than 500 newspapers in the U.S. now list gay and lesbian unions alongside heterosexual ones, according to former GLAAD Executive Director Joan Garry. The organization was born in late 1985, when a group of New York-based writers organized to dispute the way the New York Post was covering the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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