Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
By A. Faulkner What is your role in the GLBTRT? I’m a member of the web committee. I primarily do content editing for the GLBTRT web pages and help maintain the awards lists on LibraryThing. I’m not generally the person who is writing the content for the website but I do ensure that it matches […]
By Thomas Maxheimer Christian law firm claims gay people are building an ‘army’ to challenge Trump Liberty Counsel, the same ultra-conservative Christian law firm that provided free legal defense to Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, and fights against LGBT rights across the US, is terrified that “radical leftist” homosexuals are planning a coup against Donald Trump. […]
By Thomas Maxheimer YouTube Filtering Draws Ire of Gay and Transgender Creators We’re still wondering why Google continues to block LGBT+ videos in its “family-friendly” viewing mode. While admitting there is an issue, so far, Google has not indicated what they are going to do about it. Meanwhile, LGBT+ voices continue being silenced. This comes […]
By Thomas Maxheimer ‘Power Rangers’ makes history with first gay superhero on the big screen The Power Rangers is making history as the first big budget movie to feature a gay superhero. This comes six years after David Yost, who played the original Blue Power Ranger on the TV show, left after suffering anti-gay harassment while […]
By Thomas Maxheimer Tomoya Hosoda Becomes First Ever Trans Man Elected To Public Office In The World In a world first, a trans man has been elected to public office. The 25-year-old was elected as a councilor for the city of Iruma, in the central Kanto region of Japan. Disney ‘pleased’ to confirm Beauty and […]
By Thomas Maxheimer Gorsuch Poses “Grave Threat” to LGBT Rights, Say Advocates Lamba Legal, along with a group of 18 other LGBT+ groups sent a letter to the chair and the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Chuck Grassley and Sen. Dianne Feinstein. The letter stated that the Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch’s […]
By Thomas Maxheimer U.S. Sends ‘Anti-Gay Hate’ Group to U.N., Fueling Fears Over LGBTQ Rights For the last five years, the Southern Poverty Law Center has listed the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-FAM) as a hate group. Yet the Trump administration has chosen to send this hate group to key United Nations meetings […]
By Thomas Maxheimer What’s Really Behind Anti-Trans Bathroom Bans? Matt Baume digs deeper into the Huffington Post article that explores the nation-wide push of state legislatures to pass anti-transgender “bathroom bills”. He reviews the fiasco that has been North Carolina’s HB2 and the currently unfolding Texas law that recently passed it’s first hurtle and he […]
By A. Faulkner The Web Committee updates the GLBTRT LibraryThing account annually. It has recently been updated to reflect the 2017 Stonewall, Rainbow and Over the Rainbow list awards. If you’d like to visit the account: https://www.librarything.com/profile/GLBTRT.
By Thomas Maxheimer In Remarkable TV Moment, Ellen Learns About Gender-Nonbinary From Asia Kate Dillon Illustrating that curiosity is the enemy of fear, Ellen DeGeneres and Asia Kate Dillon were part of a landmark television segment where DeGeneres asked the Billions star about being gender-nonbinary both in life and on the show. ‘Non-binary is a […]