Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal from Elaine Huguenin at Elane Photography who claimed that her religious beliefs prevented her from photographing a same-sex couple’s commitment ceremony. The New Mexico Supreme Court ruled that Huguenin had violated the state’s anti-discrimination laws “in the same way as if it had refused to […]
Arizona may have backed down on a state law allowing discrimination in the state using the excuse of religious beliefs, but Mississippi’s Gov. Phil Byrant (R) has signed a similar bill for his state. According to the new law, people’s “right to the exercise of religion” will not suffer a burden, which is defined as […]
Tim Federle, author of Better Nate Than Ever, is featured in today’s NY Times Read Around talking about his new book. Federle’s book Better Nate Than Ever is one of this year’s Stonewall Honor Books in Children’s and Young Adult literature.
Former Library of Congress management analyst Peter TerVeer has legal standing under Title VII of the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 to sue after he was fired in 2012. He has alleged that he lost his job because he is gay. U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly rejected a motion from the U.S. Attorney […]
A parent’s request to withdraw David Levithan’s Two Boys Kissing from the high schools’ libraries in Fauquier County Public Schools (VA) has resulted in a public hearing about the book on April 23. The book will stay in the library until that date; the parents is appealing to the superintendent. The book is about Harry […]
Andraya Williams, a 22-year-old transwoman at Central Piedmont Community College (NC), says that she was suspended from the school for using the women’s restroom until she agrees to use only the school’s gender-neutral restrooms. School spokesman Jeff Lowrance says that technically she hasn’t been suspended. According to Lowrance, much of the campus lacks gender-neutral restrooms. […]
“Transgender and Gender Non-Conformity in Books for Children and Teens” is the May discussion topic for the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The first two weeks is a general discussion of the topic. The second two weeks will concentrate on Susan Kuklin’s Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out […]
Stonewall Books Awards Chair, Peter Coyl, will appear on the Lambda Weekly radio program on Sunday, April 13, from 1-2 pm (CT). The program will be broadcast live on KNON 89.3 FM and live streamed at http://www.knon.org/ First aired in 1983, the program is the longest running LGBT show on the air. It is hosted […]
Courts in at least two states dealt with the thorny problem of swiss-cheese laws surrounding marriage equality this past week. In Ohio, a federal judge struck down part of the state’s ban on LGBT marriage by ordering the state to recognize out-of-state marriages. To give time for appeals, Judge Timothy Black said he will issue […]
By Tess Goldwasser Joel became a GLBTRT member in 2007 while he was still in library school. Since then, he served one year as Director-at-Large on the Executive Board and is now on the Stonewall Book Award committee. “I have always sought to increase the participation of new librarians in the RT, and the encouraging […]