Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
The Grammy award-winning band fun. has launched a campaign to raise $250,000 to build a community health center for the Ruth Ellis Cente, which provides housing, meals, clothing and medical services for LGBT youth in need in Detroit (MI). Funds will be raised through its LGBT support organization, The Ally Coalition (TAC). Band members are […]
Nicole Maines, a transgender girl from Maine, recently won a long fought court battle against the school system she had attended. The Maine High Court ruled that denying Maines the right to use school facilities set aside for female use violated her rights under the Maine Human Rights Act. The case Doe v. Clenchy, so […]
Harrison County Jail in Houston, Texas is revamping the way that it assigns inmates housing, and this change has ramifications for the LGBT community. The changes, coming in response to a law signed by President George W. Bush called the Federal Rape Elimination Act, seek to eliminate rape in all local, state, and federal lockups. […]
Perry Brass has released the second in a three-part series for the NYPL regarding the Gay Men’s Health Project Clinic that he co-founded in 1972 with Lenny Ebreo and Marc Rabinowitz that I wanted to let you know about this next installment. It features two visitors to the Clinic—Dr. Howard J. Brown, who had been […]
GLBTRT now has another fundraising projects: GLBTRT sponsorship of a candidate for the ALA Emerging Leaders program. ALA describes the program as follows: “A leadership development program which enables newer library workers from across the country to participate in problem-solving work groups, network with peers, gain an inside look into ALA structure, and have an […]
Nel Ward received the Boa Award for her on-going work with GLBTRT, most recently her participation in the transition of the GLBTRT Newsletter to GLBT News, a website that became the new official outlet for round table news earlier this year. With that change came the new Reviews Committee, a round table standing committee which […]
The GLBTRT Social at conferences is always a time of revelry and a place where members can renew or make new friendships. This year’s event at Mixto Restaurant, next to the iconic bookstore Giovanni’s Room, celebrated several awards. Chair-elect Ann Symons started the proceedings with an ALA award. More about that will be in GLBT […]
Gay couple Paul Katami and Jeff Zarillo with lesbian couple Kris Perry and Sandy Stier won their fight against California’s Prop 8 after last summer’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling. Now they’re in a film documentary that received a standing ovation when it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. The Case against 8” by filmmakers Ben […]
If you weren’t able to attend the Creating Change 2014 Conference this year, that doesn’t mean that you have to miss out on everything that went on there. You can visit the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force’s YouTube Page to view videos from the conference. Below, you can view the inspirational speech that Laverne […]
Although most of the LGBT rights’ cases recently have been on the subject of marriage, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a ruling that may have far more reaching results in forwarding equality for the LGBT population. Last summer’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning part of DOMA in Windsor v. United States clarified […]