From the Chair: November 2015

By Peter Coyl The subject of bathrooms has been in the news quite a bit here in Texas.  It started a few months ago in the wind up to the election because of a contested ballot measure (the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance or HERO which would have banned discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity).  […]

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From the Chair: The Challenge of being Free

By Peter Coyl Texas has been in the news lately, and not for something that makes me proud. Recently a mother in Hood County was upset that her small child picked up a copy of “This Day in June” by Gayle Pitman off the display rack at the Library. She was very concerned that this […]

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From the Chair: Not just on Christopher and Castro

By Peter Coyl As I’ve wound down from ALA Annual I’ve spent a lot of time reflecting on this past year as a round table and thinking of what we plan on doing in the coming months. This last year the GLBTRT has accomplished quite a lot. We rolled out GLBT Book Month under the […]

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