Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
By Ashley R. Lierman Lauren Morelli, one of the writers of the Netflix original series Orange is the New Black, recently came out as a lesbian and obtained a divorce from her husband. According to multiple online sources, Morelli saw much of herself in the journey taken by the show’s main character, Piper, and gradually […]
Press Release. (Thanks to Peter Coyl for the submission!) Dallas developer Luke Crosland of The Crosland Group and ilume®, ilume® Park, and ilume® Gallerie, is gifting 6,000 volumes of LGBT literature to the Dallas Public Library. As space allows, as many as 800 volumes of this collection will be housed in the Library’s Oak Lawn […]
By Ann K. Symons, Chair Last year when I was Chair-elect, my main job was to do committee appointments – except for the Stonewall, Rainbow and Over the Rainbow Committees. Those committee appointments were done by the Chair, Roland Hansen. I would, however, look at the long lists of members who volunteered for these appointments […]
By John Mack Freeman Here’s a sampling of stories from around the web this week: DirecTV has a new commercial commemorating the return of football season featuring a same sex couple. Watch the ad here. Remember how we said last week that the NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade was going to allow LGBT groups to […]
Via press release Today, Free & Equal, the United Nations Human Rights Office’s global public education campaign for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality, releases “UN Free & Equal: One Billion Rising” a video highlighting the campaign’s impact to date. “In the past year, more than a billion people around the world have been […]
By John Mack Freeman Angelica Ross recently founded TransTech as a nonprofit in Chicago. Having personally experienced the trials that can affect trans people in the workplace and during job searches, Ross is seeking to help others avoid many of the trials that she had to go through. Via The Advocate: “TransTech emerged from my […]
By John Mack Freeman As part of the GLBT News ongoing work to better keep our membership informed about the goings on in the roundtable, we will be profiling one of our standing committees every month to check in with them and see what they are currently up to. As always, any committee can have […]
By John Mack Freeman (all awards info are direct quotes from ALA press releases) Sara Jaffarian School Library Program Award for Exemplary Humanities Programming The American Library Association (ALA) Public Programs Office is now accepting nominations for the 2015 Sara Jaffarian School Library Program Award for Exemplary Humanities Programming. School libraries, public or private, that […]
By John Mack Freeman The Supreme Court has decided to look at petitions from Indiana, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Utah, and Virginia to assess whether or not the Court will take up these cases in their next session. The Court will begin meeting in private sessions on September 29th to decide what cases will appear on their […]
By John Mack Freeman Lily Tomlin is one of five people set to receive Kennedy Center Honors this year. This would make her the first out lesbian to ever receive this recognition. The Honors recognize living American artists for their contributions to American culture. Via The Advocate: While several women previously honored have been rumored […]