Garrett Glaser is a retired news reporter who was one of the first US television journalists to "come out" publicly as a homosexual.

[1] 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.

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 Foundation.

[2] Several months earlier, the Los Angeles Times had published a story on the front page of its "Calendar" section about Glaser's status as one of the few openly gay TV reporters in the nation,[3] Earlier, in an unrelated case, Glaser had become embroiled in a public spat with Los Angeles Times media columnist Howard Rosenberg over Glaser's coverage of the disappearance of music superstar Michael Jackson for KNBC.

[4] Glaser also worked as a TV anchor, reporter or producer at CNBC, Entertainment Tonight, WABC-TV New York.