The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation search for a new leader is over. The media advocacy organization announced today, 14 April, Herndon Graddick is its new president.

'Herndon Graddick is already a well-respected leader within the LGBT movement, and we believe will be a visionary and strategic leader for GLAAD's culture-changing work,'  Sheri Fults, GLAAD's national co-chair of the board of directors, said on the group's website.