Garrett Glaser is a retired news reporter who was one of the first US television journalists to "come out" publicly as a homosexual. His coming out occurred during the course of a speech he made before a large group of TV and radio executives at the 1992 convention of the Radio/TV News Directors Association being held in San Antonio, Texas. Although Glaser co-founded the Electronic Media Task Force of the National Lesbian/Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA) in 1990 and was later out to fellow journalists, he was not out to the public at large. That changed in 1994 when Glaser disclosed his sexual orientation during a live report on the Channel 4 News at KNBC-TV Los Angeles as he was reporting on the death of Elizabeth Glaser (no relation), an AIDS activist who founded the Pediatric AIDS Fo