Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
By John Mack Freeman As part of its “All God’s Children” campaign that focuses on targeting evangelicals in Mississippi, the Human Rights Campaign has released a new ad this week. Entitled “Justin,” it features a gay soldier talking about why Mississippi needs to evolve on equality. Watch it below:
By John Mack Freeman In this week’s edition of ridiculous reasons to censor something, the town of Tuszyn in central Poland has banned Winnie the Pooh for his non-standard sexuality. Yes, that’s right. The cartoon bear beloved by generations for his love of honey has placed a Polish town in a sexual quandary when naming […]
By John Mack Freeman There has been an enormous outpouring of support for the Ferguson Library over the last weeks and months as recent events have thrown the community into turmoil. During times when schools and other social services have been closed, this one-person library has become a community hub that continues to support the […]
By Ashley R. Lierman Constantine, new to NBC this season, has already gotten so roughed up in the press that it hardly seems worth saying anything else negative about it. For those not familiar, the series is an adaptation of the long-running comics series Hellblazer, and as noted on this blog, there was controversy early […]
Contributed by Charlie McNabb; compiled by John Mack Freeman. Several months ago, there was a call on the GLBTRT e-mail list to compile stories of service to LGBT people from the library world. We will publishing these every so often as they become available. These stories are in the words of those contributing them, and […]
By Tess Goldwasser Martin is the RT’s representative to the ALA Task Force on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, of which he also happens to be co-chair. He’s served previously as the liaison to IFRT and as a juror for the Over the Rainbow list. He is the head of research and instruction services at Regis University, […]
Via press release The first study is an online survey study being conducted by our research group at King’s College London and we are recruiting identical twins in which one is gay, lesbian or bisexual and the other is straight. The second is a multi-component study being conducted by our colleagues at the University of […]
By John Mack Freeman Gambia, already not the friendliest country for gay men, just got worse. The country has changed its criminal code to make the punishment for “aggravated homosexuality” worse. Instead of 14 years in prison for being caught having gay sex, the punishment is now life in prison. President Yahya Jammeh signed the […]
By John Mack Freeman The trend of the uninsured rate dropping nationally has been further reflected in the LGBT community. From 2013 to 2014, the uninsured rate among LGBT people making 400 percent or less of the national poverty line dropped from 34 to 26 percent according to a report by the Center for American […]
By John Mack Freeman When I was growing up, there was a computer-based war game called Red Alert 2 that I really enjoyed. One of my favorite troops where the Chrono Legionnaire that could teleport anywhere on the map and instead of killing the enemy, they removed it from time entirely. Whenever you told them to attack, their […]