Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
By Erin Berman Thank you for your continued support of ALA’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table (GLBTRT)! Your membership has played a vital role in supporting the Round Table’s mission. Now more than ever we need to be visible, to promote that libraries are open to all, and to work to ensure that […]
Via press release Applications are open for the 2015 Judith F. Krug Memorial Fund Banned Books Week event grants, sponsored by the Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF). Organizations are encouraged to apply for grants of $1,000 and/or $2,500 in support of activities celebrating Banned Books Week (Sept. 27–Oct. 3, 2015). Applications for the grants will […]
By John Mack Freeman Despite the rapid and widespread growth of support for LGBT causes in America, two books on ALA’s Office of Intellectual Freedom’s most frequently challenged books list are there (at least in part) due to homosexual content. Both are books that are perennially challenged and on the list: And Tango Makes Three (#3) […]
By John Mack Freeman Apple’s voice recognition program Siri learned Russian as part of an expanding effort to move its products worldwide. However, a video surfaced this week of a man trying to get Siri to respond to questions about gay bars and gay marriage with the application refusing to provide information or to process […]
By John Mack Freeman Guam Attorney General Elizabeth Barrett-Anderson ordered clerks in that territory to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples. This is the first United States territory to recognize and issue same sex marriage licenses. The order followed the territory being sued by a lesbian couple after their marriage license application was denied. […]
By John Mack Freeman (thanks to Nel for the tip!) Alaska Airlines has unveiled a new addition to their website focused on LGBT travel. The first push of the new initiative is to offer discounted airfare to cities during that cities Pride celebrations (and yes, San Francisco is on the list). Via Gay Star News: […]
By John Mack Freeman In El Salvador this week, a constitutional referendum that would ban same sex marriage got preliminary approval from the legislature with 47 of 84 members backing the proposal. According to El Salvadoran law, the bill must receive 2/3 approval, or 56 of the current members. In Malawi, the Marriage, Divorce, and Family Relations Law went into […]
By John Mack Freeman Mortal Kombat X introduces the character of Kung Jin, a former thief and now Shaolin monk and member of the Special Forces Unit. Via PinkNews: Through a series of flashbacks, gamers will get to see new character Kung Jin explore his sexuality as he fights with several others. When fan favourite character Raiden tells […]
By John Mack Freeman GLAAD released their 2015 Studio Responsibility Index this week. The index tracks LGBT representation in major studio films in wide release from year to year. Some of their findings included: 17.5% of analyzed films had LGBT representation of some kind, slightly up from 2014. Female-identified LGBT people made up 32% of […]
By John Mack Freeman A judge ruled this past Friday that opponents to Houston’s equal rights ordinance (referred to as HERO) did not have a sufficient number of signatures to place the issue on the ballot this November. The focus of the trial was on whether the city had properly invalidated pages of petitions that […]