Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
Wisconsin’s ban on marriage equality has been declared unconstitutional just in time for 2014 Pride Month. U.S. District Barbara Crabb wrote that same-sex couples “are entitled to the same treatment as any heterosexual couple.” This is the 14th ruling against state marriage bans in the past year since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in United […]
Rainbow colors to support LGBT youth were launched in Bangkok to commemorate the 2014 International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia on May 17. During the School Rainbow project, Thai students chalked enormous rainbows in schoolyards to bring attention to the problem of bullying. Participating schools included Thammasat University, NIST International School, Mathayom Prachanivet School, and […]
By Tess Goldwasser Ana Elisa is the GLBTRT’s representative to YALSA, and was recently elected Director-at-Large to the Executive Board! She would like to get more involved with ALA through the GLBTRT and the Spectrum program. She is an Adult and Teen Services Librarian at the DC Public Library. She says she is proud of […]
Raising children changes the brains of gay men so that the new pattern has characteristics of both new mothers and new fathers. According to the new study by Ruth Feldman of Bar-Ilan University in Israel, new mothers have a hyper-reaction in the amygdala to the child’s cries and other emotional cues. Fathers involved in raising […]
Congratulations to the Charleston (SC) Friends of the Library and the LGBT Center of Raleigh Library! They are two of the seven winners this year of $1,000 grants from the Freedom to Read Foundation’s Judith F. Krug Memorial Fund for events celebrating Banned Books Week this fall. Charleston will focus on the recent state legislature […]
Posts have been blowing up back and forth on social media for a few weeks now over RuPaul’s use of the word “tranny.” While the drag queen has refused to back down from her usage of the word, others, including RuPaul’s Drag Race alum Carmen Carrera have labeled her transphobic for her usage of the word. […]
Juneau Empire.com has an excellent article about GLBTRT chair-elect Ann Symons’ receiving ALA’s prestigious Equality Award. It is an excellent look at Symons’ decades of advocacy and education on LGBT issues.
YALSA is offering two travel stipends of up to $1,000 to attend its Literature Symposium at Austin (TX) November 14 – 16, 2014. One is for a library worker with at least one year of experience who works with YAs; the other is to a student enrolled in an ALA or NCATE accredited library program […]
The 26th Annual Lambda Literary Awards were announced last night in New York. Alison Bechdel was awarded the Trustees Award for Excellence in Literature while Kate Bornstein was awarded the Pioneer Award. For a full list of the winners, you can visit the Lambda Literary site and scroll to the bottom.
Time has put transgender activist Laverne Cox on its cover at the same time that an article discusses violence against the LGBT community, particularly the homicide rate among transwomen of color. The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs have found a 21-percent increase in the number of hate incidents against the LGBT community in 2013 when […]