Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
Via e-mail from Sherry Machones Did you know that the GLBTRT has a Buddy Program? The goal of this program is to bring together active round table members with new and/or prospective members or members becoming active for the first time or after a long absence. The program is formally for only one conference but […]
GLBTRT member John Mack Freeman has been awarded this year’s Gordon M. Conable Conference Scholarship from the Freedom to Read Foundation. The full press release can be found here. Congratulations, Mack!
Gaming In Color, a new documentary that looks at gaymer (“gay gamer”) culture, is now available to stream. The documentary interviews everyone from casual players to industry insiders as it takes a look at what draws people to games and their experiences within the larger gamer community. Watch the trailer below:
This week, the Human Rights Campaign is launching a new initiative to increase its presence in states that have little or no protections for LGBT people, and they are stating in some of the states that have traditionally been the most hostile to LGBT people. The $8.5 million project will focus on establishing a greater […]
Newspapers of all stripes have had their fair share of issues over the last decade, but rarely have they been banned outright. At Cedarville University in Ohio, the Baptist college’s administration has seized the student-run paper for content that they don’t approve of. Specifically, the paper had started to garner a reputation for having a pro-LGBT […]
Nineteen members of Congress have asked the International Olympic Committee to amend its charter later this year to bar anti-LGBT discrimination. This comes after the significant outpouring of anger and anti-Olympics sentiment after the 2014 Winter Olympics were hosted in Russia. Russia’s anti-gay propaganda law has been widely criticized, and it led to a flurry […]
Alison Bechdel and Kagte Bornstein will be honored at the 26th Annual Lambda Literary Awards. Bechdel will receive the Foundation’s Trustee Award for Excellence in Literature, and Bornstein will receive the Pioneer Award. Author of award-winning Fun Home and Are You My Mother, Bechdel wrote and drew the comic strips Dykes to Watch Out For, […]
A six-member panel unanimously voted to retain David Levithan’s Two Boys Killing in the Fauquier High School library (VA) after a parental complaint about the display of affection on the cover. The parent can appeal the April 2 hearing to the school board which has final authority.
A National Institutes of Health study indicates that married same-sex couples are happier than their non-same sex counterparts. Here’s the latest progress to achieve this across the United States: Oregon: Currently, the same sex marriage ban in Oregon is under trial with no one defending the law after the state Attorney General refused to defend […]
By Tess Goldwasser In the past, Holly has served the GLBTRT as the External Relations Committee Chair and a member of the Steering Committee. Most recently she was on the ad hoc committee that proposed changes to the Stonewall Book Awards committee. As associate dean for Scholarly Communication and Research Services at the University of […]