Jarrett Barrios
President and CEO, GLAAD
Jarrett Barrios is the President and CEO of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). We was previously the President of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation, and was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and state Senate. He is the founder of three nonprofit organizations: Oiste, a Massachusetts Latino political organization; Acceso, a humanitarian organization that provides outreach to Cuba; and The Commonwealth Seminar, which seeks to diversify the Massachusetts state legislature.
As Americans come to understand LGBT people more completely, they become more open to supporting legislative endeavors for equality and reframing how gay people are perceived in the larger culture.
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Gay parents understand what it’s like to be misunderstood, and what it’s like for children to be trapped in the lens of somebody else’s’ stereotype.
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A conversation with the President and CEO of GLAAD.
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You don’t wear your sexuality “on your sleeve,” says the GLAAD president. “It’s not part of your last name; it isn’t in your accent. … You actually have to come […]
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