Curated playlist
GLAAD Media Awards winners
- MadonnaMadonna Louise Ciccone arrived in New York City in 1978 with thirty-five dollars in her pocket. It was the first time she had ever flown on a plane or ridden in a taxi. She would later call leaving college the bravest thing she had ever…
- Ian McKellenIan McKellen was nine years old when his main Christmas present arrived: a fold-away wood and bakelite Victorian theatre from Pollocks Toy Theatres, complete with cardboard scenery and wire-pushed cut-outs of Cinderella and of Laurence…
- Bill ClintonBill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III on the 19th of August 1946, in Hope, Arkansas, three months after his father died in an automobile accident. His mother, Virginia, left him with her parents while she studied nursing in…
- The New York TimesThe New York Times has been called "The Gray Lady" for as long as anyone can remember, a nickname that nods to the color of newsprint and to the paper's long-standing refusal to embrace yellow journalism. Founded in 1851 as the New-York…
- The Boston GlobeThe Boston Globe hit the streets for the first time on the 4th of March, 1872, priced at four cents. Six Boston businessmen had pooled $150,000 to launch it, and among them were figures whose names would become woven into the fabric of New…
- Variety (magazine)Variety was born from an act of defiance. In 1905, Sime Silverman lost his job at The Morning Telegraph for panning an act that had paid $50 for an advertisement. He borrowed $1,500 from his father-in-law and launched his own publication,…
- Mariah CareyMariah Carey walked into a music executive's party in December 1988 as an unknown backup singer and left without speaking to anyone important. But she had handed her demo tape to Tommy Mottola, head of Columbia Records. He listened to it…
- NewsweekNewsweek hit newsstands for the first time on the 17th of February 1933, its debut cover featuring seven photographs from the week's news. Nine decades later, the same brand reports 100 million unique monthly readers and $90 million in…
- The Denver PostThe Denver Post once had more than 600 journalists working under a single joint agreement with its crosstown rival. Today it runs with a fraction of that number. That collapse did not happen quietly. It happened in public, with the paper's…
- USA TodayUSA Today hit newsstands on the 14th of September 1982, priced at 25 cents a copy, in the Baltimore and Washington D.C. metropolitan areas. Within hours, that first issue sold out. By the end of 1982, the paper had reached an estimated…
- Billboard (magazine)Billboard magazine was born on the 1st of November, 1894, in Cincinnati, Ohio, as a trade sheet for the people who pasted advertisements onto walls. Its first issues ran just eight pages and carried columns with names like The Bill Room…