Telling Your Story: Messaging & Media Tools For Today’s Activist Engagement 101 Participants will learn the basics about media structure and how to tell their stories in traditional, online, and social media platforms. Equipped with research and best practices gleaned from more than 30 years of experience, GLAAD will work with participants to reach and teach the movable middle about the LGBTQ community through compelling storytelling combined with the best and most upto- date tools and know-how for general activism and media engagement.

Media Advocacy Essentials For Transgender People Engagement 102 Designed specifically for transgender advocates, participants will learn the basics about media structure and how to tell their stories in traditional, online, and social media outlets. Equipped with research and best practices gleaned from more than 30 years of experience, GLAAD will work with participants to reach and teach the movable middle about the transgender community through compelling storytelling combined with the best and most up-to-date media savvy and know-how.

Telling Your Latinx Story: Messaging & Media For Latinx Activists Engagement 103 Designed specifically for Spanish speaking and Latinx advocates, participants will learn the basics of media structure, as well as how to tell their stories in traditional, online, and social media outlets. Equipped with research and best practices gleaned from more than 30 years of experience, GLAAD will work with participants to reach and teach people through compelling storytelling combined with the best and most up-to-date media savvy and know-how. One-on-one practice on-camera interviews will help participants become comfortable doing media in Spanish and help build the skills and confidence needed to make themost of our media opportunities.

Media Advocacy for People of Faith Engagement 104 Designed specifically for faith leaders and people of faith, participants will learn how to leverage the media and articulate their message of LGBTQ acceptance in alignment with their faith. Equipped with research and best practices gleaned from 30 years of experience, the GLAAD Media Institute will work with participants to communicate their message with the movable middle while combatting the often-negative narrative surrounding faith and LGBTQ people.

Media Advocacy Essentials for Bisexual People Engagement 105 Designed specifically for bisexual+ (pansexual, fluid, no label, queer, etc) advocates, participants will learn the basics of media storytelling, including identifying target audiences and using social media for their advocacy work. Equipped with research and best practices gleaned from more than 30 years of experience, GLAAD will work with participants to reach and teach the movable middle about the bisexual+ community through compelling storytelling. The workshop will also discuss the state of bisexual+ representation in media and the opportunities for improved bisexual+ representation in the future.

Telling Your Story Through Social Media Engagement 202 Designed for those who are starting to incorporate social media into their advocacy strategy, participants in this specialized course will receive a comprehensive overview of social media platforms, as well as leveraging social media for reaching expanded audiences, deeper storytelling, and accelerating acceptance. This course will teach participants the best practices to make the most of the potential for a variety of social media platforms, while also carefully avoiding pitfalls that exist in the social media sphere.

Creating LGTBTQ Inclusive Media Content Media 101 Following GLAAD’s Engagement 101 course, this intermediate-level training helps advocates and allies sharpen their skills to reshape the mainstream narrative and address the lagging cultural acceptance and understanding of the LGBTQ community and other marginalized communities. Participants will receive more specialized one-on-one development with GLAAD’s trainers and take a deeper dive into the tools introduced in GLAAD’s 101 training and how to leverage the media to create change.