Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
Last week should have been a good week for Brendan Eich. Eich was tapped to become the new CEO of Mozilla, the nonprofit maker of the Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client that he co-founded. However, Eich’s promotion was met with a rapid backlash due to the fact that he donated $1,000 to the effort […]
During a TED talk posted last week, model Geena Rocero came out as transgender. The talk, which delves into her personal history and her evolution over time, is deeply touching and heartfelt. It can be seen below. She furthered used the opportunity to launch Gender Proud, a new campaign that seeks to increase awareness about […]
Late Monday night, it was reported that Frankie Knuckles had passed away at the age of 59. Knuckles, known as the “Godfather of House,” was one of the primary popularizers of house music during his time as a young DJ in Chicago. The style has since exploded onto dance floors and radio waves around the […]
Facebook may have decided that selling guns across state borders isn’t a good idea, but it doesn’t mind violence against LGBT people. Someone registered a complaint against the group “Kill Gays Today” with the description, “We hate gays and anyone who supports being gay.” It’s a closed group. Facebook sent this response: “We reviewed the […]
A recent poll shows that 59 percent of people nationally support marriage equality, and 50 percent of them think that the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right of same-sex couples to marry. The 33 states that lack marriage equality still have a majority support of 53 percent. An overwhelmingly 81 percent reject permitting businesses to discriminate […]
A state bill to ban discrimination against transgender Marylanders has passed both the Senate and House of Delegates. State Del. Maggie McIntosh (D-Baltimore City) referenced the exclusion of trans Marylanders in a 2001 anti-discrimination bill when she said, “This is an important group of people today who frankly we left out 11 years ago. They’re […]
Books can expand horizons and give LGBT people courage, sometimes easing the pain of being an outside . “in a world where not only our books but our lives are shelved separately from everyone else’s.” Lambda Literary Foundation is collecting brief videos or photographs to share inspirational books, poems, graphic novels, or other life-changing pieces […]
Event grants for Banned Books Week from the Judith F. Krug Memorial Fund of the Freedom to Read Foundation are available until April 30. These are $1,000 and/or $2,500 to support “Read-Outs” or other activities to commemorate the week on September 21-27, 2014. During its five years, the Krug fund has supported 28 projects; photos […]
When Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni signed the anti-homosexuality bill into law that will put people into prison for life if they are LGBT, he maintained that it was because homosexuality is a choice. The man accused of stealing $5 million per month from the national workers’ pension fund gave pastors $500,000 last November to mobilize […]
Lisa Johnston is moderator for the upcoming discussion of upcoming LGBT titles and trends from Bold Strokes Books, Cleis Press, Dreamspinner Press, MLR Press, Riptide Publishing, and Library Journal. Panelists include Victoria Oldham, Brenda Knight, Damon Suede, Kris Jacen, and Sarah Frantz. The event, which will also be archived and available for on-demand viewing, is […]