Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
Gaming In Color, a new documentary that looks at gaymer (“gay gamer”) culture, is now available to stream. The documentary interviews everyone from casual players to industry insiders as it takes a look at what draws people to games and their experiences within the larger gamer community. Watch the trailer below:
Two countries are releasing stamps to honor gay men. In Finland, the late graphic artist Tom of Finland, born Touko Laaksonen, will be represented on a new series of stamps to be available in September (NSFW-ish). Tom of Finland became an icon because of his homoerotic drawings. is about to become further cemented as an icon […]
Alison Bechdel, author of the graphic narrative Fun Home, was so horrified that South Carolina legislators had censored her book that she helped make arrangements to have the off-Broadway musical based on the book presented at the College of Charleston. Two performances were shown on the evening of April 21 with almost 1,000 tickets sold […]
GaymerX2 will be this summer from July 11-13, 2014 in San Francisco. However, this will be the last opportunity to visit this con. Citing an over-burdening of volunteers, too rapid expansion, and financial losses from the convention, founder Matt Conn announced on Twitter that this would be the last con for a while, though he […]
Stonewall Books Awards Chair, Peter Coyl, will appear on the Lambda Weekly radio program on Sunday, April 13, from 1-2 pm (CT). The program will be broadcast live on KNON 89.3 FM and live streamed at http://www.knon.org/ First aired in 1983, the program is the longest running LGBT show on the air. It is hosted […]
A new documentary by Jeffrey Schwarz has been released about the life and legacy of Divine. The queer icon rose to prominence in the 1970’s and 1980’s through the films of John Waters. Her life was tragically cut short by an enlarged heart when she was 42. You can find the trailer for the documentary […]
Teen sweethearts Katie Hill and Arin Andrews met at a support group for transgender teens. According to Queerty: “19-year-old Katie Hill was in the process of transitioning from male to female when she fell in love with 18-year-old Arin Andrews, who was undergoing his own transition from female to male. The Oklahoma teenagers first went public with their […]
