Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
Gough, Erin. Amelia Westlake was never here. Poppy. 2019. $17.99. 356p. HC. 9780316450669. Will Everhart is a troublemaker. Harriet Price is a prefect. The only thing they have in common at Rosemead private school for girls is that they both think something needs to be said about Coach Hadley, the prized staff member at Rosemead […]
LGBTQ community center in Oakland California receives 100K grant for youth outreach programs.
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Haifa on Thursday (August 1) to protest against LGBT violence following the stabbing of a transgender Arab teen. The protest was planned by a group of more than 30 organizations in response to the stabbing outside a shelter for LGBT youth in Tel Aviv last week. https://972mag.com/queer-palestinian-protest-lgbt-violence/142586/
GLBTRT member Kristie Escobar, a third-year doctoral student at FSU’s School of Information, was awarded the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Award. See the full announcement from Florida State University at the link below. https://news.cci.fsu.edu/cci-news/cci-in-the-news/kristie-escobar-selected-for-yalsas-doctoral-dissertation-fellowship-award/
Kalmus, Sage (ed.) Hashtag Queer LGBTQ+ Creative Anthology Vol. 3. Qommunicate Publishing. 2019. $16.99. 230p. PB. ISBN 978-1-946952-25-7 The third volume of Hashtag Queer delivers fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and scripts written by and/or about LGBTQ+ people and their lives. This anthology includes stories focused on different queer identities, the connection between different generations of queer […]
https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-rose-greene-lgbtq-dead-20190715-story.html
In case you missed this news from last month, Janet Mock signed a deal at Netflix, making her the first out transgendered woman to “call creative shots at a major content company.” https://variety.com/2019/tv/features/janet-mock-netflix-deal-pose-1203246917/
Read Daniel Villarreal’s article on the new movie “Birds of Prey,” which will have “two “gay coded” villains named Black Mask and Victor Zsasz, bisexual villain Harley Quinn and lesbian police detective named Renee Montoya.” https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/07/dc-comics-bird-prey-movie-will-gay-lesbian-characters/
https://www.sbnation.com/soccer/2019/7/7/20685477/why-the-uswnts-open-queerness-matters
The New York Times reports, in pictures, a look at pride celebrations around the world. Click the photo below for a look at the first-ever celebration in North Macedonia, Mexico City celebrates being the first Latin American city to legalize gay marriage, and a protest in Singapore, among other festivities around the world. And in […]