Drive the Vote

This week, GLAAD launched Drive the Vote, a 4-part video series created in partnership with OutFront Kalamazoo, Equality Michigan and global digital media company BuzzFeed. The series features interviews with LGBTQ+ voters across four battleground states: Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Jon Hoadley was interviewed here in Kalamazoo.

The videos will launch on GLAAD’s YouTube and social media accounts, as well as on BuzzFeed’s Facebook, IGTV, and Twitter. Michigan’s video is expected to air sometime this week.

“With LGBTQ issues largely left out of the political discourse around the upcoming elections, and completely absent from any of the presidential or vice presidential debates, it was important to GLAAD to speak with LGBTQ voters personally to hear what issues are most important to them this election season,” said Mathew Lasky, GLAAD’s Director of Communications and the host of Drive the Vote. “Together with BuzzFeed, we will amplify these stories from real LGBTQ people across America to remind the nation that LGBTQ issues simply can’t be ignored in 2020.”

Drive the Vote is part of GLAAD’s get out the vote campaign. Their recently released ‘State of LGBTQ Voters’ poll found that LGBTQ+ voters are highly motivated and prepared to vote.