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Nominations for Rainbow Roundtable Awards are open

March 8, 2022March 8, 2022 by Kathleen Baril

The Rainbow Round Table is currently accepting nominations for our non-book awards, the RRT Award for Political Activism, the Newlen-Symons Award for Excellence, and the Larry Romans Mentorship Award (with @godort). Submission deadline is March 31. https://www.ala.org/rt/rrt/awards

Team LGBTQ’s Monique Matthews helps lead U.S. sitting volleyball to Paralympics gold

September 7, 2021September 7, 2021 by Kathleen Baril

U.S. took home their second consecutive gold medal in sitting volleyball and TEAM USA sitting volleyball teammates were champion allies to Monique Matthews and her husband as he transitioned. https://www.outsports.com/paralympics/2021/9/5/22658450/sitting-volleyball-monique-matthews-paralympics-gold-medal

Bedazzlers: The Cockettes in Print: Acid Drag & Sexual Anarchy 1969-1972

April 19, 2020April 19, 2020 by elissa mondschein

With genderfuck high drag spontaneity and an abundance of glitter as their bottom line, the members of this ever-expanding assemblage of lavender post-hippiedom somehow managed to find each other in the Haight. https://www.ebar.com/arts_&culture/books//290687/bedazzlers:_the_cockettes_in_print:_acid_drag&_sexual_anarchy_1969-1972

America’s First LGBT-Focused Credit Union

September 18, 2019September 18, 2019 by Molly Scheibler

Michigan has approved its first ever Credit Union especially for the LGBT community. It will be the first credit union in the United States designed to support LGBT customers across the country. Its online service will start in early 2020.

The Basic Ball

August 25, 2019August 25, 2019 by elissa mondschein

For all you POSE fans out there, check out this parody from A Black Lady Sketch Show. A Ball for the rest of the LGBTQT’s! “Whether you’re Mother Exhausted from the House of Tired, or one of the Eternal Children from the House of Forever 21, y’all better bring it! The first category is … […]

Lee Bennet Hopkins, 81, Poet With a Mission to Inspire Children

August 24, 2019August 24, 2019 by elissa mondschein

Lee Bennett Hopkins, passionate educator and prolific children’s poet and anthologist, died on August 8 in Cape Coral, Fla., following a hospitalization for COPD. He was 81. Many of Hopkins’s books have been celebrated over the years with distinctions and awards from the American Library Association, the International Reading Association, and the National Council of […]

obituary for Henri Belolo, co-founder of The Village People

August 24, 2019August 24, 2019 by elissa mondschein

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/aug/14/henri-belolo-obituary The record producer and label boss Henri Belolo, who has died aged 82, helped define the “Eurodisco” genre of the later disco era in the second half of the 1970s.

Amelia Westlake Was Never Here

August 16, 2019August 16, 2019 by Ashley Dunne

Gough, Erin. Amelia Westlake was never here. Poppy. 2019. $17.99. 356p. HC. 9780316450669. Will Everhart is a troublemaker. Harriet Price is a prefect. The only thing they have in common at Rosemead private school for girls is that they both think something needs to be said about Coach Hadley, the prized staff member at Rosemead […]

Kristie Escobar selected for YALSA’s Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Award

July 30, 2019July 30, 2019 by elissa mondschein

GLBTRT member Kristie Escobar, a third-year doctoral student at FSU’s School of Information, was awarded the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Award. See the full announcement from Florida State University at the link below. https://news.cci.fsu.edu/cci-news/cci-in-the-news/kristie-escobar-selected-for-yalsas-doctoral-dissertation-fellowship-award/

Kim McCauley reflects on queerness and the US Women’s National Soccer team.

July 10, 2019July 11, 2019 by elissa mondschein

https://www.sbnation.com/soccer/2019/7/7/20685477/why-the-uswnts-open-queerness-matters