Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
Drafted by the St. Louis Rams, Michael Sam will probably become the first openly gay player in the NFL. One K Street lobbyist, Jack Burkman, has promised a “relentless” boycott against the team that drafts him as part of his campaign to legally ban openly gay players in the NFL. Burkman claims to have a […]
For anyone attending the Annual Conference in Las Vegas next month, the scheduler is now live. If you would like to see what the GLBTRT has going on, you can click here to view the list. Also, as someone asked on the e-mail list this week, details about the social on Sunday night will be […]
This past week has been “Choose Privacy Week.” The event was celebrated by the release of a tool kit with access to information on the libraries’ core values of privacy and confidentiality. The revision was completed by the ALA Privacy Subcommittee. Information is available here. Following are articles about maintaining privacy in the library world: […]
Outbeat, sponsored by the William Way LGBT Community Center, is being billed as the first jazz festival with an entirely LGBT focus. Scheduled for September 18-21, the event will provide panel discussions and receptions as well as performances at clubs throughout Philadelphia.
The Beverly Hills City Council voted unanimously for a resolution urging the nation of Brunei to sell The Beverly Hills Hotel because of the country’s penal code of “kill-a-gay” and “flog-a-woman.” The Brunei Investment Agency, managed by the Brunei Ministry of Finance controlled by Brunei’s sultan, also owns the the Bel-Air Hotel and other Dorchester […]
UPDATE: Late on Tuesday, May 13th, Idaho’s marriage ban was ruled unconstitutional. The governor has vowed to take the case to the Supreme Court. Arkansas state trial judge Christopher Charles Piazza has struck down another ban on marriage equality on the basis of its unconstitutionality. In his 13-page ruling, he wrote, “The exclusion of a minority […]
HGTV has dropped its series Flip It Forward because of the stars homophobic views. The father of twin brothers and Liberty University graduates Jason and David Benham leads the anti-LGBT group, Operation Save America, that has also protested everything from the interfaith Sandy Hook memorial to mosques. At a prayer rally outside the 2012 Democratic […]
A group called Pissed Off Trans* People is attempting to revolutionize gendered bathrooms at Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT) by replacing traditional signs with non-gendered ones. [sign] Signs that read “Men” or “Women” have been replaced with new ones and a manifesto, “Desegregate Wesleyan Bathrooms.” Although some of the bathrooms have been re-gendered, the group’s actions […]
By Tess Goldwasser Recently off a two-year term on the Stonewall Book Awards, Rob is in the process of creating a timeline for volunteering during the next year. “Sometimes it gets tricky being up in Canada and only being able to do virtual work for the majority of the year,” he wrote. Rob is a […]
As spring starts to be in bloom in much of the country (and we finally start to dry out down in Georgia), let’s take a quick look at some of the headline LGBT stories from around the country this week: Alaska: An Alaska Supreme Court ruling found that same sex couples are entitled to equal […]