Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
By John Mack Freeman Atlanta resident Luke O’Donovan was violently attacked outside of a bar in Atlanta, GA in December 2012 by five men. The men stabbed him several times while shouting homophobic slurs at him. O’Donovan defended himself successfully with a pocketknife and made it to an area hospital for treatment. Sounds like a […]
By Tess Goldwasser Marian has been a member of the GLBTRT for about a year. She was able to meet some of her fellow members at this year’s ALA annual conference, and is interested in serving on a committee sometime in the future. She just finished a one year term in AmeriCorps as a Youth […]
By Ashley R. Lierman The Dog, directed by Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren, chronicles the life of John Wojtowicz, who was the inspiration for Al Pacino’s character in Dog Day Afternoon. Wojtowicz was a complicated character: an early gay rights activist and a proponent of same-sex marriage at a time when the issue was not even […]
By Tess Goldwasser This week’s very special profile is of Mac Elrod, a founding member of the RT, with decades of library (and life) experience. He’s so fascinating, I’m just going to let him tell us all about himself: TG: What is your role within the GLBTRT? ME: Founding member. What professional work do you […]
Submitted by Ashley R. Lierman Via the Advocate: Australia’s Special Broadcasting Service bills itself as “inclusive, expansive and courageous,” and it appears to be living up to that claim as it launches a new show called Living With the Enemy next month, with a first episode that features a staunchly conservative Anglican minister forced to […]
Guest Column. Submitted by Joel Bangilan. Few libraries across the country orchestrate as extensive an observation of Pride Month as San Antonio Public Library. For the past five years Pride has been a rewarding and validating endeavor for the library system. Diversity is not always black and white. Diversity encompasses race, religion, socio-economics, gender, sexual […]
By Roland Hansen This is considerably overdue, but I wanted to send it anyway. Lots of things happened in Las Vegas during Annual Conference, and I’m sure I’ll miss some things in this short report, so feel free to comment on the blog. It’s hard to say which is the biggest news from Conference. The […]
A judge in Uganda recently ruled that that country’s anti-gay law was invalid. He reached this finding due to the fact that the legislature lacked a quorum when the bill was passed. Via PinkNews: President Yoweri Museveni signed the draconian Anti-Homosexuality Bill in February. The law calls for repeat offenders to be sentenced to 14 […]
Via their website: Harmony Ink Press is accepting manuscripts for young adult fiction featuring at least one strong LGBTQ+ main character who shows significant personal growth through the course of the story. Identifying as part of the LGBTQ+ spectrum can be part of the growth process depicted in the book. We are looking for stories in all […]
Anti-LGBT activists in Houston recently tried to challenge that city’s HERO law that seeks to protect LGBT people. They had turned in over 31,000 signatures, well over the 17,269 signature threshold. However, when the city started to analyze the signatures, things quickly got interesting. Numerous pages of signatures were filled out incorrectly. Further some pages were […]