Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
By John Mack Freeman A new penal code will take effect in Mozambique on Monday, June 1st that will no longer list homosexuality as a crime. The old penal code was originally approved in 1887 when Mozambique was still a colony of Portugal. Although homosexuality was never specifically mentioned, it was often charged as a […]
By John Mack Freeman The White House released a proclamation on Friday declaring June to be a national lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Pride month. The full proclamation reads as follows: LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER PRIDE MONTH, 2015 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION From the moment our Nation first […]
By Tess Goldwasser. Photo credit American Libraries 1994. What is your role in the GLBTRT? I proudly serve as the Chair of GLBTRT, my first active role in the RT. I lead a board of committed officers, colleagues, and friends. My role is to try to articulate a vision for the RT and, with the board […]
By John Mack Freeman In what looks at first like a counter-intuitive study, Lisa Lindley of George Mason University and Katrina Walsemann of the University of South Carolina have found that teenage girls who identify as lesbian or bisexual are significantly more likely to become pregnant. According to the study which analyzed three years of CDC data, […]
By John Mack Freeman LeTourneau University in Texas is an interdenominational Christian and NCAA Division III school. As originally reported by OutSports this week, it has banned its student athletes from same sex dating and public support of same sex marriage in the new student athlete handbook which is available on the school’s website. Via OutSports: The […]
By John Mack Freeman Jubilant crowds cheered throughout Ireland on Saturday as the results began to pour in from that country’s referendum on same-sex marriage. More than 61 percent of those voting in the referendum approved the country legalizing same-sex marriage for the first time. The “Yes” campaign as the efforts of those in favor […]
By John Mack Freeman The Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara-helmed Carol has won the 2015 Queer Palm at the Caanes Film Festival. Via Gay Star News: Directed by Todd Haynes, ‘Carol’ is adapted from a Patricia Highsmith novel (‘The Price of Salt’) that tells the story of two women who fall in love in 1950s New York […]
By John Mack Freeman Donald Green has retracted “When contact changes minds: An experiment on transmission of support of gay marriage” from the December 2014 issue of Science because of new information that has emerged that the data used in the study was fabricated. The study received a good deal of press attention when it was published because […]
By John Mack Freeman Boy Scout President Robert Gates announced his support for ending the ban on gay adult leaders in the organization at the group’s annual meeting in Atlanta this past week. Gates said that given the cascading changes surrounding the issue at this time — including shifts in employment discrimination laws, internal dissent […]
Via press release The American Library Association (ALA) is collaborating with Lambda Literary to utilize the American Library Associations’ Rainbow Book List in Lambda Literary’s LGBTQ Writers in Schools Program. The Rainbow Book List, an annual bibliography of the year’s best works of fiction and non-fiction for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender teens, has been […]