{"id":1943,"date":"2015-06-07T23:30:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T04:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1943"},"modified":"2015-08-23T17:43:05","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T22:43:05","slug":"glbt-book-month-off-to-a-fantastic-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1943","title":{"rendered":"GLBT Book Month off to a fantastic start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>GLBT Book Month is off to a fantastic start as GLBTRT embraces their first?year ever managing this event on behalf of ALA. On a personal note, I&#8217;ve already seen displays in several libraries near where I work, and it&#8217;s always a little surprising and comforting when I see that in rural and suburban Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>Several articles have been written about the RT&#8217;s efforts, and we will attempt to share them here, such as the below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilovelibraries.org\/article\/libraries-celebrate-glbt-book-month\">I Love Libraries, &#8220;Libraries celebrate?GLBT Book Month&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebar.com\/news\/article.php?sec=news&amp;article=70642\">The Bay Area Reporter, &#8220;Political Notebook: Library group takes lead in promoting LGBT books&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A big shout out and thanks to all of our members who have worked on GLBT Book Month and who support at their local libraries and across the country and world!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman GLBT Book Month is off to a fantastic start as GLBTRT embraces their first?year ever managing this event on behalf of ALA. On a personal note, I&#8217;ve already seen displays in several libraries near where I work, and it&#8217;s always a little surprising and comforting when I see that in rural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,58,57],"tags":[117,89],"class_list":["post-1943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-glbt-news","category-media-of-note","tag-glbt-book-month","tag-glbtrt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}