Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
By A. Faulkner What is your role in the GLBTRT? I’m a general member. I also did a GLBTRT panel discussion at Midwinter this year. What does the GLBTRT mean to you? The biggest thing for me is support and community. Support for all of the work we are doing in libraries and the library […]
By Tricia Boucher Judge refuses to order school to suspend transgender policy US District Judge Jorge Alonso’s refusal to order a Chicago-area school to suspend it’s transgender policy that allows transgender students to use the bathrooms and locker rooms of their choice will probably be appealed, and is expected to end up in the Supreme […]
By Thomas Maxheimer Alan Cumming Blasts Trump’s “Persecution Against the LGBT Community” While being interviewed about his upcoming one-hour TV show titled Instinct, Cumming said he was drawn to the show because it is “all that more important we should have a character with a healthy same-sex marriage.” Instinct premiers on CBS March 11. America’s […]
By A. Faulkner The deadlines have been extended to submit nominations for the Larry Romans Mentorship Award, the GLBTRT Award for Political Activism and the Newlen-Symons Award for Excellence in Serving the GLBT Community. The new deadline for nominations is February 01, 2018!
By Thomas Maxheimer ‘Cheerleader’, ‘Rent’, ‘Capote’, ‘Bowie’ Doc and Everything Streaming on Netflix, Hulu, HBO and Amazon in January 2018 Check out what’s streaming this month! Check out the trailers here. Sufjan Stevens features best bits from Call Me By Your Name in new music video Based on the Andre Aciman novel by the same […]
By Thomas Maxheimer Trump Terminated All Members Of HIV/AIDS Council Without Explanation The White House fired all 16 members of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA). This comes after six members had resigned in protest to “a president who simply does not care.” Asia made big strides in LGBT rights in 2017 The South […]
By Thomas Maxheimer New Featurette Gives Inside Look at ‘American Crime Story: Versace’ FX’s featurette offers an inside look. Watch it here. Check out the full trailer here. The series premiers Wednesday, January 17 on FX. The Best LGBT Documentaries of 2017 Check out these ten LGBTQ-related documentaries. Trailers and links here. These are Towleroad’s […]
By Tricia Boucher Tunisia’s LGBT Radio Station Refuses to Stop Promoting Tolerance in Face of Death Threats Only two weeks old, the “first LGBT radio station in the Arab world” has received thousands of death threats. But the online station’s goal of countering the anti-LGBTQ narrative remains firm. Russian Senator Argues that Protecting Animals Will […]
By Tricia Boucher Florida City Embraces LGBT Community Wilton Manors, a small community outside of Fort Lauderdale, has a majority LGBT city commission, a large LBGT population, and a thriving gay tourism industry. But, like any town or city, it works to balance the needs of all residents. Zach Wahls, who famously defended lesbian moms […]
In honor of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table’s 50th Anniversary coming in 2020, the GLBTRT Fund Raising Committee will be selling t-shirts — and we need YOUR help to create them! The Fund Raising Committee will be accepting t-shirt design submissions from GLBTRT members and supporters before putting the designs up to […]