Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
By John Mack Freeman By a unanimous vote of the DC Historic Preservation Review Board, the building that originally housed the Furies Collective in DC has been approved to be included as a historic landmark on the D.C. Inventory of Historic Sites. The row house was used in the 1970s as an early meeting ground for […]
By John Mack Freeman The Pakistani printer of the international edition of The New York Times censored a large front-page picture from one of this week’s editions because it showed a man kissing another man on the cheek. The image and the accompanying article can be seen here. Via Washington Post: For the second time this month, Pakistan’s […]
Via press release (thanks Chris Boire for the tip!) From National Book Foundation: The Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of our first BookUp site for LGBTQ youth at The Hetrick-Martin Institute, an after-school center that creates a safe and supportive environmentfor LGBTQ youth, many of whom are homeless or otherwise at risk. Taught […]
By Ashley R. Lierman In a twist on the sadly familiar tale of gay couples being denied service by homophobic business owners, a new thriller called B&B plays with the idea of one couple getting even instead of getting mad. As ScreenDaily describes the story: Paul McGann (Withnail & I), Tom Bateman (Jekyll & Hyde) […]
By Ashley R. Lierman A web comic featuring a gay superhero exploded in popularity when it went to Kickstarter to become a print graphic novel, Out.com reports: Young Protectors: Engaging the Enemy centers around a young gay hero and a team of his super-powered friends pitted against an older gay villain. Author Alex Woolfson originally […]
By Ashley R. Lierman The Advocate has released two lists of can’t-miss reading material this week: for kids, one of picture books with LGBT themes (in slideshow form); and for teens and adults, one of LGBT graphic novels. If you’re looking for collection development ideas or just behind on developing your or your family’s own […]
Via press release The American Library Association’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table (GLBTRT) today announced the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies at the University of Minnesota Libraries as the inaugural recipient of the Newlen-Symons Award for Excellence in Serving the GLBT Community. The award was established to honor […]
By John Mack Freeman The 2016 Over the Rainbow list has been announced. 68 titles have been honored this year. Read the full list here.
By. A. Faulkner Most of us have just recently returned from visiting with friends and family over the holiday season. For many of us, the late December break comes with religious undertones. At my family homestead, it’s as blatant as hand-carved nativities and reading from the Book of Luke. Inevitably, the combination of scripture, and […]
By John Mack Freeman GLAAD just released its 2016 “Accelerating Acceptance” report, and it shows that while progress has been made towards achieving full GLBT equality, an attitude of complacency is settling in with many GLBT supporters. From GLAAD’s Key Findings: Perhaps because marriage equality was so widely covered by the media in 2015, half […]