Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
In a clarification issued last week, the Department of Education said that trans students are protected under Title IX. The statement was released by the Office of Civil Rights and said in part “Title IX’s sex discrimination prohibition extends to claims of discrimination based on gender identity or failure to conform to stereotypical notions of masculinity […]
The results of the recent ALA elections are in, and here are the results for the GLBTRT: Total ballots cast: 295 GLBTRT Bylaws Amendment: Yes: 96.7% No: 2.3% Chair Peter Coyl: 98.6% Secretary Melody Ann Townley: 73.9% Robert Ridinger: 25.7% Directors-At-Large Ana Elisa De Campos Salles: 64.8% Larry Romans: 64.1% Matthew Ciszek: 68.7% Sherry Lynn […]
The Boy Scouts of America just can’t stop discriminating against gay scouts. Last week, 19 year old Garrett Bryant was involved in a dust-up with the BSA. Comments made on one of Bryant’s social media accounts led to the implications that he was gay. Bryant remained closeted during his entire time with the Boy Scouts […]
Senior clerics of the Roman Catholic church will be meeting this fall to discuss many hot-button issues that have long placed the church on the opposite side of progressive forces. Gay marriage, contraception, cohabitation before marriage, remarriage, and divorce will all be on the agenda. The meeting, called by Pope Francis, seeks input from Catholics […]
A new documentary seeks to explore what makes the gay voice and what it means in today’s society. The film will be called Do I Sound Gay?, and it will tackle an issue that is often noted but rarely discussed. From the film’s Kickstarter page: In the tradition of funny-but-serious first-person movies like Supersize Me, Roger and Me and Good Hair, […]
Discharged Navy servicemember Landon Wilson recently launched an effort to fund a new documentary. Entitled TransMilitary, the film will focus the enforced secrecy that trans servicemembers endure on a daily basis. To help fund this film, you can visit their GoFundMe page here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uylyC7HPeYQ
StoryCorps recently announced that OutLoud, its division that helps capture the stories of LGBTQ people, will undertake a new initiative starting in June 2014 to record our stories. The goal of this initiative is to record stories from people who lived before the Stonewall uprisings in 1969. Stay tuned for more information about how to get […]
Antonia Ayres-Brown was just 11 when she first became irritated that the toys given to children at McDonald’s were often predetermined by the supposed gender of the child. Typically, this meant blue and rugged for boys and pink and frilly for girls. Here initial complaints went unheeded, so Ayres-Brown spent the next 6 years compiling […]
Via e-mail from Sherry Machones Did you know that the GLBTRT has a Buddy Program? The goal of this program is to bring together active round table members with new and/or prospective members or members becoming active for the first time or after a long absence. The program is formally for only one conference but […]
GLBTRT member John Mack Freeman has been awarded this year’s Gordon M. Conable Conference Scholarship from the Freedom to Read Foundation. The full press release can be found here. Congratulations, Mack!