Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
By A. Faulkner What is your role in the GLBTRT? Member What does the GLBTRT mean to you? The round table is family. It’s a place where, as a professional, I can find and meet others who have the same experience as a queer person in the library, whether it be public, academic, or […]
By Thomas Maxheimer Ashley Judd Brings House Down With ‘Nasty Woman’ Poem At Women’s March On Washington Watch Ashley Judd’s moving recitation of a poem by Nina Donovan called “I am a Nasty Woman”.
By Thomas Maxheimer 10M U.S. Adults Now Identify As LGBT According to Gallup, this represents a 1.75M Increase since 2012. The change is largely attributed to out millennials. The percentage of American adults identifying LGBT increased to 4.1% in 2016 from 3.5% in 2012. These figures suggest an estimated 10 million adults now identify as LGBT […]
By Emilia Marcyk Current scholarship and academic news addressing LGBTQ identities and concerns, of interest to librarians, educators, and information professionals. Publications Abate, Michelle Ann. “‘The Capitol Accent Is So Affected Almost Anything Sounds Funny in It’: The Hunger Games Trilogy, Queerness, and Paranoid Reading.” Journal of LGBT Youth 12.4 (2015): 397-418. URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19361653.2015.1077768 In […]
By Thomas Maxheimer Ben Carson: LGBT People Don’t Deserve “Extra Rights” “…no one gets extra rights. Extra rights means you get to redefine everything for everybody else,” claims Carson. These are characteristic comments from Carson who has, in the past, said such things as transgender people are “abnormal” and don’t deserve “extra rights,” such as […]
By Thomas Maxheimer TechCrunch, The Washington Post, and The Advocate, among other news outlets, report that moments after being inaugurated, the LGBT, climate change, and other sections of the Whitehouse.gov website disappeared. Many felt this could be a sign of hostility toward the LGBT community, especially given the history of gay opposition of VP Mike […]
By Jeremy Selvidge On Friday, Donald Trump was sworn in as the forty-fifth president of the United States. As a candidate, Trump pledged to sign the “First Amendment Freedom Act,” a bill originally introduced in 2015 that would allow discrimination based on the “moral conviction that marriage is… the union of one man and one […]
By Thomas Maxheimer U.S. authorities have arrested the wife of the gunman who killed 49 people at an Orlando gay nightclub last year, taking her into custody in connection with a massacre that intensified fears about “lone wolf” attacks against Americans, the U.S. attorney general said on Monday. Noor Salman, 30, is being charged with obstruction […]
By Thomas Maxheimer Jennifer Holliday Backs Away From Performing At Trump Inauguration In an open letter, Holliday indicated that she wanted to use her voice as one of healing. She went on to say that “I did not take into consideration that my performing for the concert would actually instead be taken as a political act […]
By Thomas Maxheimer Country Music Television Star Cody Alan Comes Out As Gay CMT and iHeartRadio host Cody Alan came out via an Instagram post and hopes he can be a change-maker. Alan: “Even if it’s just one person that hears it and says, ‘I like country music and maybe I’m not so different after all.’ […]