The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) announced 25 of this year’s 32 media categories at the 22nd annual GLAAD Media Awards last week. The announcement was made on Saturday, March 19, in New York City.

For twenty-five years, GLAAD has been a media watchdog, holding the media responsible for how it portrays the LGBT community. Formed in New York in 1985 to protest the New York Post’s defamatory and sensationalized AIDS coverage, GLAAD put pressure on media organizations to end the trend of homophobic reporting. In 1987, after a meeting with GLAAD, The New York Times changed its editorial policy to use the word “gay” instead of including anti-gay rhetoric. GLAAD soon advocated that the Associated Press and other television and print news sources follow.

Today, GLAAD’s Announcing Equality project has resulted in more than 1,000 newspapers including gay and lesbian announcements alongside other wedding listings.