Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
Last week should have been a good week for Brendan Eich. Eich was tapped to become the new CEO of Mozilla, the nonprofit maker of the Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client that he co-founded. However, Eich’s promotion was met with a rapid backlash due to the fact that he donated $1,000 to the effort […]
Late Monday night, it was reported that Frankie Knuckles had passed away at the age of 59. Knuckles, known as the “Godfather of House,” was one of the primary popularizers of house music during his time as a young DJ in Chicago. The style has since exploded onto dance floors and radio waves around the […]
Facebook may have decided that selling guns across state borders isn’t a good idea, but it doesn’t mind violence against LGBT people. Someone registered a complaint against the group “Kill Gays Today†with the description, “We hate gays and anyone who supports being gay.†It’s a closed group. Facebook sent this response: “We reviewed the […]
A recent poll shows that 59 percent of people nationally support marriage equality, and 50 percent of them think that the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right of same-sex couples to marry. The 33 states that lack marriage equality still have a majority support of 53 percent. An overwhelmingly 81 percent reject permitting businesses to discriminate […]
A state bill to ban discrimination against transgender Marylanders has passed both the Senate and House of Delegates. State Del. Maggie McIntosh (D-Baltimore City) referenced the exclusion of trans Marylanders in a 2001 anti-discrimination bill when she said, “This is an important group of people today who frankly we left out 11 years ago. They’re […]
 When Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni signed the anti-homosexuality bill into law that will put people into prison for life if they are LGBT, he maintained that it was because homosexuality is a choice. The man accused of stealing $5 million per month from the national workers’ pension fund gave pastors $500,000 last November to mobilize […]
The ATLAH Missionary Baptist Church in New York City has become notorious over the last few weeks for their signs that have demonized the LGBT population. The signs (reproduced below) have drawn the ire of many due to their hateful content. In response to these signs, 50 LGBT activists arrived at the church this past […]
Rohn Neugebauer, 48, recently died of a heart attack in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Neugebauer’s partner Dan Burda has recently hosted a fundraiser for CORE (Center for Organ Recovery and Education). Thus, when Neugebauer passed away, his family sought to fulfill his wishes to become an organ donor. However, when it was revealed the Negebauer was in […]
Because GLBT News only updates weekly, sometimes stories get pulled in the early part of the week and they have to be changed shortly before we go to post. One case of this is a recent story of the Christian charity World Vision. The initial story, published broadly last week, stated that Richard Stearns, president of the […]
