Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
By Thomas Maxheimer 10M U.S. Adults Now Identify As LGBT According to Gallup, this represents a 1.75M Increase since 2012. The change is largely attributed to out millennials. The percentage of American adults identifying LGBT increased to 4.1% in 2016 from 3.5% in 2012. These figures suggest an estimated 10 million adults now identify as LGBT […]
By Thomas Maxheimer Ben Carson: LGBT People Don’t Deserve “Extra Rights” “…no one gets extra rights. Extra rights means you get to redefine everything for everybody else,” claims Carson. These are characteristic comments from Carson who has, in the past, said such things as transgender people are “abnormal” and don’t deserve “extra rights,” such as […]
By Thomas Maxheimer U.S. authorities have arrested the wife of the gunman who killed 49 people at an Orlando gay nightclub last year, taking her into custody in connection with a massacre that intensified fears about “lone wolf” attacks against Americans, the U.S. attorney general said on Monday. Noor Salman, 30, is being charged with obstruction […]
By Thomas Maxheimer Jennifer Holliday Backs Away From Performing At Trump Inauguration In an open letter, Holliday indicated that she wanted to use her voice as one of healing. She went on to say that “I did not take into consideration that my performing for the concert would actually instead be taken as a political act […]
By Thomas Maxheimer Country Music Television Star Cody Alan Comes Out As Gay CMT and iHeartRadio host Cody Alan came out via an Instagram post and hopes he can be a change-maker. Alan: “Even if it’s just one person that hears it and says, ‘I like country music and maybe I’m not so different after all.’ […]
By A. Faulkner Reminder that applications for the Lambda Literary Writer’s Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices are due January 30! This is an amazing opportunity for emerging writers. Faculty this year include: Fiction Workshop — Garth Greenwell Young Adult Fiction Workshop — Malinda Lo Nonfiction Workshop — Diana Cage Playwriting Workshop — Phillip Howze Poetry Workshop […]