Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
By John Mack Freeman Get Covered Illinois has released a 30-second spot that focuses on a same-sex couple that are eligible for joint coverage due to the Affordable Care Act. The ad is part of a campaign to make sure that all families in Illinois know about the coverage that is available to them. Watch […]
By John Mack Freeman (via Bill Cohen) The co-authors of our forthcoming “Handbook of LGBT Tourism & Hospitality” have a small grant for a freelance research assistant. Anyone who may be interested can contact Bill Cohen at bcohen at harringtonparkpress dot com.
By John Mack Freeman I can hardly believe it. The GLBT News reformat has gone on for a whole year. Here’s a bit of a look back at what we accomplished in the last year: Over 540 posts, including: 30 pieces of original content (and the new regular column ”Queer Quest” by Ashley R. Lierman) 36 profiles compiled, […]
By Tess Goldwasser Julie is the co-chair of the GLBTRT Advocacy Committee and was recently appointed to be one of the GLBTRT representatives on the Diversity Council. She was a public librarian for 20 years, serving as a librarian in jails and prisons, as well as in family literacy, and then in a branch as […]
By John Mack Freeman Earlier this week, 17-year-old Leelah Alcorn left her suburban Cincinnati home and committed suicide. A few hours later, her Tumblr account automatically posted her suicide note. In the note, Alcorn discusses coming out to her mother, having her concerns ignored, being shoved into religious-based counseling, and a spiral of depression that […]
By John Mack Freeman Sometimes, a court battle can take forever, but a win is nonetheless gratifying. In 2004, two Rhode Island firefighters, Theodore Fabrizio and Stephen Dennino, drove a firetruck in the Providence Pride Parade as part of their official duties working for the Providence Fire Department. The two sued the department, stating that […]
By John Mack Freeman Cynthia Chin-Lee’s book Operation Marriage about same sex marriage and its effects on families has been released as a short film. After making the rounds at film festivals, the entire film is availabe on Youtube. You can watch it below:
By John Mack Freeman The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has denied a request from gay businessman Scott Sietz’s Dotgay LLC to manage the newly approved .gay top-level domain. While Sietz had said that he would use the domain to maintain the community-focused nature of the .gay domain, ICANN’s scoring felt that […]
By John Mack Freeman One of the most popular LGBT films of 2014 had a strange release in the United States. Pride, which is a British film about gay and lesbian activists who rallied to striking miners in the United Kingdom in the 1980’s, was released in the United States by CBS Films this week. CBS and […]
By John Mack Freeman One of the major stories this week is that same sex marriage will officially get underway in Florida this week due to a ruling that invalidated the state’s ban on same sex marriage. However, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi had appealed the ruling to the US Supreme Court asking for a […]