Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
Dangers asylum-seekers find at home; Taiwan offers legal protections but not marriage – and no one’s happy; Cuba gets religion; Sissies unite in Sydney! Trans asylum-seeker killed after U.S. deportation back to El Salvador Taiwan unveils Asia’s first draft law on same-sex marriage Cuba’s evangelical alliance leads crusade against gay marriage Sissy Ball: Sydney’s queer […]
By A. Mattonen Activist, essayist, novelist, playwright, poet–there are many titles that spring to mind when hearing James Baldwin’s name. His bibliography contains a myriad of works that lend themselves to modern day literary critics, wordsmiths, and public speakers. There is even a Buzzfeed article dedicated to Baldwin quotes that can “feed your soul.” What […]
By Thomas Maxheimer Are you planning to attend ALA Annual 2017 in Chicago? If so, you may be planning a trip to the gayborhood. You might also be interested in understanding how Chicago’s “Boystown” was shaped, how it influenced the struggle for LGBT+ equality and social acceptance, and how it was the center of important […]
By Emilia Marcyk History As you probably guessed, “celesbian” is a portmanteau of “celebrity” and “lesbian.” It usually refers to someone who is a famous lesbian, though can also refer to a celebrity posing as a lesbian for publicity, or spreading false rumors about their sexuality to gain attention. Wikipedia claims the term was coined […]
By Emilia Marcyk Sexuality is not black and white; some people identify in the gray area between asexual and sexual. People who identify as gray-A can include, but are not limited to those who: do not normally experience sexual attraction, but do experience it sometimes experience sexual attraction, but a low sex drive experience sexual […]
By Emilia Marcyk Assignment of gender refers to the way that we assume others’ genders based on their bodies. When a child is born, our culture slots it into one of two groups: male or female, avoiding all overlap. We “determine” the child’s “correct” identity based on a quick visual assessment of the appearance of […]
By Emilia Marcyk A Two Spirit person is a male-bodied or female-bodied person with a masculine or feminine essence. Two Spirits can cross social gender roles, gender expression, and sexual orientation. – NativeOUT.com Two Spirit (or Two-Spirit) is used by many American Indian and Canadian First Nations people, and is distinct from Western ideas of […]
By A. Faulkner It has come to my attention that the ‘A Name You Should Know’ article series has potentially given the mistaken impression that the individuals featured were interviewed for these articles; they were not. The ‘A Name You Should Know’ pieces were written solely by pulling information from a variety of articles in […]
By Emilia Marcyk Adjective designating a person who does not subscribe to conventional gender distinctions, but identifies with neither, both, or a combination of male and female genders – Oxford English Dictionary The term genderqueer is one of many words that people may choose to describe an identity outside or beyond male/female. Others include agender, […]
