Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
Upcoming anthology in New Lit Salon Press’s new series: Behind the Yellow Wallpaper: New Tales of Madness is seeking submissions. Pieces should address issues of intersectionality that may affect women’s mental health such as physicality, sexuality, trans’ identity, race, class, pregnancy and motherhood, religion, etc.; address any other social issues that impact women’s mental health; […]
U.S. schools had 53 percent more book banning incidents in 2013 than in the previous year, according to the National Coalition against Censorship. A project called The Kids’ Right to Read Project investigated three times the average number of problems, according to Coordinator Acacia O’Connor. The Coalition provides resources on its website including a Book […]
Maybe He’s Not Gay: Another View on Homosexuality is no longer available on amazon.com. Author Linda Harvey pulled it off the website because she “saw the rotten reviews, a smear campaign by those who had not read the book.” After amazon did not immediately take down the reviews, Harvey took her book. Harvey is known […]
The British Library has released over one million images from digitized books from 1600-1900 onto Flickr Commons for anyone to use, mix, and repurpose. Maps, comical satire, decorative letters, landscapes, and other illustrations are now in the public domain thanks to a gift from Microsoft. The featured image comes from Historia de las Indias de […]
For the first time, Blake Little’s Photographs from the Gay Rodeo can be seen at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art (Indianapolis) starting on February 1, 2014. These 41 black-and-white images of gay and lesbians on the gay rodeo circuit date back to 1988. Curator Johanna Blume said, “This exhibit also explores […]
Congratulations to GLBTRT member Wick Thomas, a Kansas City librarian and youth activist. Tony’s Kansas City editorial board selected Thomas as one of the top 13 most influential Kansas City 20-somethings for 2013. Each one of these 13 choices “define what it means to be a ‘rising star’ in Kansas City.” Earlier this year, Thomas […]
At its November conference call, the GLBTRT Executive Board approved an Ad hoc committee to plan and manage a GLBTRT Pre-Conference in San Francisco. Because much of this work needs to be done before August 2014, this year’s program committee does not have the time or resources to add a pre-conference to their work. I am […]
Last spring 32-year-old Lucy Meadows of Accrington (England) committed suicide after the press hounded her for the supposed “devastating effect” that she would wreak on her students by transitioning genders. Seven-year-old Daisy Moreton wrote this poem that was read at a march for Lucy Meadows: Makes you happy in high spirits smiles said kind things […]
Future GLBT News will also publish profiles of GLBTRT members. If you would like to write a profile for this space, please contact the editor. Advocate has highlighted 25 LGBT movers and shakers who are over 65, yet “continue to inspire us and haven’t allowed the age formally known as retirement to sideline them in […]
Earlier this year, a San Francisco-based group called HACKmarriage put stickers on books in libraries and bookstores that changed the definitions of marriage from being a union of a man and a woman to being a union of ‟two people.” But activists aren’t the only people changing dictionaries. Several wordsmith are reevaluating their current definitions. […]