{"id":194,"date":"2010-06-24T16:02:19","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T16:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alaovertherainbow.wordpress.com\/?p=194"},"modified":"2011-02-23T09:44:20","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T15:44:20","slug":"change-org-loves-the-rainbow-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/overtherainbow\/archives\/194","title":{"rendered":"Change.org loves Over the Rainbow Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>OTR received kudos from change.com **<\/p>\n<p>New List to Highlight Quality LGBT Books<\/p>\n<p>by Dana RudolphJune 03, 2010<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"library_queer\" src=\"http:\/\/change-production.s3.amazonaws.com\/photos\/wordpress_copies\/gayrights\/2010\/06\/library_queer-250x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"187\" \/>The American Library Association last week\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org\/news\/ala\/glbt-round-table-announces-new-over-rainbow-committee\">announced<\/a> the official launch of its\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/alaovertherainbow.wordpress.com\/\">\u201cOver the Rainbow\u201d Committee<\/a>, which will create an annual bibliography of \u201ctitles of interest to adult readers that reflect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ) experiences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oh, good. Because there are only so many times I can read\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rubyfruit_Jungle\">Rubyfruit Jungle<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Joking aside, it is a positive and welcome sign that the ALA sees fit not only to publish a list of LGBT-inclusive books, but to prepare to do so every year.<\/p>\n<p>The Committee is an outgrowth of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rainbowlist.wordpress.com\/\">Rainbow List Committee<\/a> that launched in 2008 with the aim of creating such a bibliography for readers under 18 years of age. Unlike the lists of LGBT-inclusive children\u2019s books often compiled by LGBT-rights organizations, the Rainbow List is selective, not comprehensive, with the books chosen for quality as well as LGBT content. (As a long-time reviewer of LGBT children\u2019s books, I can confirm there are many earnest LGBT-inclusive books whose literary \u2014 and sometimes mere grammatical \u2014 merit leaves much to be desired.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gayrights.change.org\/blog\/view\/new_list_to_highlight_quality_lgbt_books\" target=\"_self\">Read the entire article&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>**Change.org is an online hub for social change. We run leading online communities for 20 major causes ranging from homelessness to women\u2019s rights to poverty, and through a team of 100 expert writers and 3,000 nonprofit partners, we serve as the central platform for launching and promoting movements for social change on the web.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTR received kudos from change.com ** New List to Highlight Quality LGBT Books by Dana RudolphJune 03, 2010 The American Library Association last week\u00a0announced the official launch of its\u00a0\u201cOver the Rainbow\u201d Committee, which will create an annual bibliography of \u201ctitles of interest to adult readers that reflect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ) experiences.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/overtherainbow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/overtherainbow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/overtherainbow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/overtherainbow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/overtherainbow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/overtherainbow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/overtherainbow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/overtherainbow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/overtherainbow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}