Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
This past week Kellogg’s Company released a brand new breakfast cereal. This new cereal will raise money for LGBTQ youth advocacy. It is called All Together cereal and features mascots from Kellogg’s cereals on the box. Donations of the cereal will go to GLAAD. https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/10/kelloggs-new-together-cereal-celebrates-lgbtq-youth/
The Rainbow Roundtable is now accepting nominations for the following awards. Membership in the Rainbow Roundtable is not a requirement. Rainbow RT Award for Political Activism- This award honors librarians, library related organizations (including libraries, library staff, library boards, library friends), and other individuals or groups (public or private) that have demonstrated excellence in the […]
Prabal is an empowerment program for parents of LGBT children that focuses on gender, sexuality and understanding physical and mental health. It is intended for open-minded parents who can, in turn, educate other parents and become valuable queer allies https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/family-relationships/article/3024706/indian-lgbt-workshop-helps-queer-people-bring
The ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at USC, the world’s largest collection of LGBTQ materials in the world, will complete its archive of historical documents by November. ONE Archives, which is located on West Adams Boulevard, is the oldest existing LGBTQ organization in the United States and houses over two million items, including texts […]
Best known for his portrayals of gay American life in both fiction and nonfiction, White’s body of work spans subject and genre, including a biography of French writer Jean Genet, for which he won the National Book Critics Circle Award; a trilogy of autobiographical novels, A Boy’s Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, and […]
Lee Bennett Hopkins, passionate educator and prolific children’s poet and anthologist, died on August 8 in Cape Coral, Fla., following a hospitalization for COPD. He was 81. Many of Hopkins’s books have been celebrated over the years with distinctions and awards from the American Library Association, the International Reading Association, and the National Council of […]
