Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
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The recently released video game Earth Defense Force 2025 has a language problem. Specifically, the game bans any username that contains the word “gay.†What makes this ironic is that the Playstation Network (through which the game enables online multiplayer access) allows for user profiles to have the word “gay†in their PSN profile name. […]
While the IRS is the perennial butt of jokes due to their perennially unpopular status, they have released a video to help same-sex couples who have married navigate their tax situation. Per a White Hourse press release: The Internal Revenue Service released a new YouTube video designed to provide useful tax tips to married same-sex […]
LGBT people traveling in Mississippi should do so with caution, according to GetEQUAL Mississippi. The travel alert was based on pending legislation that would allow “religious freedom†discrimination allowing businesses to refuse service to LGBT people. The bill has passed the state Senate and may be debated in the state House this week. A similar […]
For the 26th annual books awards, Lambda Literary has added another category: Graphic Novel. The Lammy finalists come from this year’s 746 submissions, up from 687 last year. Titles representing achievement in LGBT writing published in 2013 will be announced on June 2, 2014 at The Great Hall at Cooper Union (7 East 7th Street, […]
The Kansas Senate Judiciary Committee has approved a bill that would prosecute teachers, librarians, and school administrators for providing materials “harmful to minors.†It was introduced in reaction to a sex poster on a middle-school classroom door. The bill’s definition is as follows: (A) The average adult person applying contemporary community standards would find that […]
The website Rainbow Gray has found GLBTRT through one of its committees! Stephen Dolainski’s introduction to his article about OTR and its current bibliography: “I’m sure I knew at some time in the past that there was a Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Round Table (GLBTRT) within the American Library Association. Or maybe not. Well, […]
A memorial for Doug Ireland–journalist, author, and LGBT activist—is Thursday, March 27, 2014 in the Proshansky Auditorium at the CUNY Graduate Center at 365 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Ireland died on October 26, 2013 at the age of 67. For more information on his life, click here. Update: The memorial will be held at 6pm.
Four artists from Guatemala, Mexico, and Cuba are featured in a South Florida exhibition, “In His Own Likeness,†that presents an examination of gender, power, and divinity through a variety of media. Guatemalan artist Eny Roland’s video is an homage to an Andy Warhol film from the 1960s. The exhibition at the Richard Shack Gallery, […]
One of the prestigious organizations for lesbian literature, the Golden Crown Literary Society (GCLS), will hold its annual conference in Portland (OR) on July 9-13, 2014 at the Red Lion Hotel on the River at Janzten Beach. Both educational and social for readers and writers, the meeting also offers aspiring authors the chance to pitch […]
