Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
By Tess Goldwasser Meet Peter Coyl! The immediate past chair of the Stonewall Book Awards Committee, Peter says it has been an absolute highlight of his career and life to be involved in recognizing these fantastic books and honoring their very talented authors. He is the Branch Manager for Dallas Public Library, the busiest branch […]
GLBTRT Members Elected to Executive Board: GLBT Round Table members Peter Hepburn and Gina Persichini have been elected to the ALA Executive Board. Though they’re not ones to brag, we’re very proud on their behalf of the fact that they were elected by the two largest margins among any of the members joining Executive Board. […]
The winners of this year’s Stonewall Book Awards have been announced. Congratulations to Hilary Sloin, David McConnell, Lori Duron, Kirstin Cronn-Mills, and e. E. Charlton-Trujillo on their wins. The GLBT Round Table would also like to extend our thanks to the committee members who devoted their time this to these awards: Petery Coyl (chair), Amanda Clay, […]
The Over the Rainbow Project, a committee of the GLBT Round Table of the American Library Association, announced its 2014 book list at the ALA Midwinter Meeting last week. The list contains 71 titles that the committee feels “exhibit commendable literary quality and significant LGBT content” that are produced for audiences primarily over the age […]
The Rainbow Project, a joint committee between the GLBT Round Table and the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Library Association, has released its 2014 Rainbow List. This list compiles books with GLBTQ content of note that are recommended for people ages 0-18. A special thanks to the committee members who made this a […]
Jama Shelton (Forty to None) and Julie Winkelstein (postdoctoral researcher on an IMLS grant) are presenting their program from last summer, “Safe in the Stacks: Community Spaces for Serving Homeless LGBTQ Youth,” at the 26th National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change. Located in Houston (TX) at the Hilton of the Americas, the conference features […]
The past week, thousands of schools emphasized kindness and compassion as a method to stop bullying. James Howe’s The Misfitsinspired this event. The young adult novel tells about four students who decided to run for student council to create a No Name-Calling Day at school after suffering from this bullying behavior. Since its inception in 2004, […]
By Tess Goldwasser Meet Lisa Johnston: Lisa has served the GLBTRT since 2001 as a member of the Stonewall Book Awards Committee, Chair of the Stonewall Book Awards (the first year they were included in the Youth Media Awards), representative to the ALA Diversity Council, Chair of the now defunct Nominating Committee, and Book Review […]
By Jenna Goodall With a new year comes a lot of evaluation of the previous year’s books. Were LGBT people well represented in 2013’s YA books? Let’s take a look at the statistics: In her post, “2013 LGBT YA by the Numbers,” Malinda Lo compiled statistics about the publishers of 2013 LGBT YA and the […]
The First Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 ruling upheld a 2012 decision that classifies gender-confirming surgeries as necessary medical care. As such, transgendered inmates should have access to this care due to the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. The refusal by a Portland, Oregon area bakery to refuse to bake […]