Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
A combination of national media attention, petitions, and involvement from HRC made this story a nightmare for the school and a rallying cry for LGBT high schoolers. Earlier this month, administrators at Arkansas’ Sheridan High School removed openly gay Taylor Ellis’ yearbook profile because he talked about his coming out. Superintendent Dr. Brenda Haynes signed […]
Michigan is the latest state where a U.S. district court judge has struck down a state law barring same-sex marriage. The case involved a lesbian couple raising three special-needs adopted children who sued to marry so that both parents could legally adopt all the children. The state joins court victories within the past few months […]
“Addressing the Silence: How Libraries can Serve Their LGBTQ Users” is the theme of the first IFLA LGBTQ Users SIG session at the ILA General Conference and Assembly in Lyon (France) starting on August 19. The sessions from around the world are listed here. This is the 80th assembly of IFLA World Library and Information […]
Long-time LGBT advocate Vernita Gray has died at the age of 65. In the 1970s, she established the first lesbian newspaper in Chicago, The Lavender Woman, worked on her own poetry and other writing, and received writing and communications degrees from Columbia College Chicago. Her chapbook is called Sweet Sixteen. Gray also created a lesbian […]
By Tess Goldwasser John has been involved with the GLBTRT since 1991, back when it was called the Gay and Lesbian Task Force and marched with them in 1992 at the pride parade in San Francisco. The resulting photo on the cover of American Libraries ignited an ongoing controversy with some ALA members claiming that […]
By John Mack Freeman I am not a brony. Well, not yet anyway. I’ve never seen an episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. But given my love for other cartoons that have a quirky sense of humor (the age-appropriate Adventure Time and the not-quite-so-age-appropriate Phineas and Ferb), I can see where the draw […]
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 […]
The Central Station was the largest gay club in Moscow, but its run came to a close this week. The owners shuttered the establishment, citing the increase in violence that the club has experienced over the last year. Much of this violence is likely influenced by the homophobic gay propaganda law that Russia enacted in […]
The Publishing Triangle, the association of lesbian and gay men in publishing, has announced its annual literary awards finalists. The awards ceremony will be April 24, 2014, 7:00 pm at the Auditorium of the New School (66 West 12th Street in New York City). at 7 p.m. The free public ceremony is followed by a […]
GLBTRT Executive Board member Lisa Johnston has selected 25 titles about LGBT families for library collection development in the March 14, 2014 edition of Library Journal. Bonuses are lists of resources—sources of awards, bibliographies, reviews, websites, and apps.