Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
Via press release Editor’s note: We have numerous past and present Emerging Leaders in the Round Table. If you have any questions about the program or the application process, please feel free to ask on the listserv and we will be more than happy to help you out! -JMF CHICAGO — The American Library Association […]
By John Mack Freeman A trio of bills have been introduced by Republicans in the Michigan House of Representatives to make it significantly more difficult for same-sex couples to become married. Via PinkNews: Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat, who sit in the Michigan House of Representatives, have filed House Bill 4732 – which would make […]
By John Mack Freeman Below is a list taken off of the ALA 2015 Annual Conference Scheduler of events that GLBTRT will be hosting. We hope to see you there! FRIDAY, JUNE 26 – 8:30AM 8:30am – 12:00pm Rolling out the Rainbow Carpet: Serving LGBTQ Communities [$] Preconference/Institute,Ticketed event Moscone Convention Center 132 (N) SATURDAY, […]
By John Mack Freeman A court in South Korea ruled this week that the police could not ban a Pride celebration by refusing to issue permits for a parade. Via Gay Star News: The court ruled this violated LGBTI activists’ right to protest. ‘Unless there is a clear risk of danger to the public, preventing […]
By John Mack Freeman Gawker uncovered an email from the Sony Pictures email leak that occurred a few months ago that shines light on why some movie superheroes continue to be so…non-diverse. The defined character traits of Peter Parker and his superhero alternate Spiderman specifically list that they must be heterosexual, male, and Caucasian unless […]
By John Mack Freeman This week marked further progress in the advance of recognizing same-sex unions worldwide. Taipei, Taiwan now allows for the registration of same sex unions. This marks the second city in Taiwan to recognize these unions after the change was quietly rolled out this past Wednesday. White a move in the right […]
By Ashley R. Lierman Reality show Big Brother will soon welcome its first ever trans guest. Audrey Middleton, a young transwoman and major fan of the show, will be one of its contestants in the new season starting June 24. Profiles were released for the new contestants on CBS’s web site earlier in the week, […]
By Ashley R. Lierman The Advocate posted an interview Friday with Sophie Campbell, the artist for the new Jem and the Holograms comic series from IDW Publishing. Campbell also recently came out as a trans woman, with admirable support from her publisher, including changing previously-published comics to reflect her new name. The Jem series has […]
By Ashley R. Lierman If you feel like I’ve kind of been down on things a lot lately, and sometimes it seems like I don’t really like anything, then today’s column is for you, because today I’m going to talk about Steven Universe. If you haven’t heard of Steven Universe, you’re not alone; it’s had […]
By Peter Coyl The Importance of GLBT Book Month As a teenager, I was such an avid library user I got a job shelving books at the library in the Children’s section. On my breaks, I would roam the stacks of the second floor adult fiction area looking for something new to read. One day, […]