Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
This is a bit of older news, but worth mentioning. The city of Long Beach California opened a new downtown library and named it after Long Beach native, tennis player, and avid reader and community activist Billie Jean King. https://www.presstelegram.com/2019/09/21/long-beach-makes-it-official-its-the-billie-jean-king-main-library-now/
This Italian blog is maintained by a community of bloggers in Italy. They cover LGBTQAI+ issues in Italy and around the world. This is a wonderful interview. Congratulations to Megan, and grazie molto to Katya Parente for the publication of this interview! You can read the interview at this URL: https://boundlessrainbowlove.wordpress.com/2019/10/24/parla-con-katya-oggi-con-noi-la-rainbow-round-table-rrt/
John Giorno passed away on 11 October after suffering a heart attack. His husband, the Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone, confirmed his death. You can read a detailed obituary at the link below. https://www.wallpaper.com/art/john-giorno-obituary-1936-2019#pic_273479
The Rainbow Roundtable is now accepting nominations for the following awards. Membership in the Rainbow Roundtable is not a requirement. Rainbow RT Award for Political Activism- This award honors librarians, library related organizations (including libraries, library staff, library boards, library friends), and other individuals or groups (public or private) that have demonstrated excellence in the […]
Prabal is an empowerment program for parents of LGBT children that focuses on gender, sexuality and understanding physical and mental health. It is intended for open-minded parents who can, in turn, educate other parents and become valuable queer allies https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/family-relationships/article/3024706/indian-lgbt-workshop-helps-queer-people-bring
The ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at USC, the world’s largest collection of LGBTQ materials in the world, will complete its archive of historical documents by November. ONE Archives, which is located on West Adams Boulevard, is the oldest existing LGBTQ organization in the United States and houses over two million items, including texts […]
Best known for his portrayals of gay American life in both fiction and nonfiction, White’s body of work spans subject and genre, including a biography of French writer Jean Genet, for which he won the National Book Critics Circle Award; a trilogy of autobiographical novels, A Boy’s Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, and […]
For all you POSE fans out there, check out this parody from A Black Lady Sketch Show. A Ball for the rest of the LGBTQT’s! “Whether you’re Mother Exhausted from the House of Tired, or one of the Eternal Children from the House of Forever 21, y’all better bring it! The first category is … […]
Lee Bennett Hopkins, passionate educator and prolific children’s poet and anthologist, died on August 8 in Cape Coral, Fla., following a hospitalization for COPD. He was 81. Many of Hopkins’s books have been celebrated over the years with distinctions and awards from the American Library Association, the International Reading Association, and the National Council of […]
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/aug/14/henri-belolo-obituary The record producer and label boss Henri Belolo, who has died aged 82, helped define the “Eurodisco” genre of the later disco era in the second half of the 1970s.