Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
The tipping point came in February when former Missouri defensive end and likely NFL draft pick Michael Sam announced he is gay. GLAAD, which promotes a positive and accurate media portrayal of GLBT people, now plans to work with You Can Play in a campaign on the importance of LGBT visibility and acceptance in sports. […]
San Francisco’s Castro, the gay icon of the United States, is installing rainbow pedestrian crosswalks. The crossings at the 18th and Castro intersection, costing a local organization $37,400, will hopefully be finished by June’s Pride March. [Photo] Another project is the Rainbow Honor Walk with the names of LGBT civil rights activists on inlaid plaques. […]
A combination of national media attention, petitions, and involvement from HRC made this story a nightmare for the school and a rallying cry for LGBT high schoolers. Earlier this month, administrators at Arkansas’ Sheridan High School removed openly gay Taylor Ellis’ yearbook profile because he talked about his coming out. Superintendent Dr. Brenda Haynes signed […]
Michigan is the latest state where a U.S. district court judge has struck down a state law barring same-sex marriage. The case involved a lesbian couple raising three special-needs adopted children who sued to marry so that both parents could legally adopt all the children. The state joins court victories within the past few months […]
“Addressing the Silence: How Libraries can Serve Their LGBTQ Users” is the theme of the first IFLA LGBTQ Users SIG session at the ILA General Conference and Assembly in Lyon (France) starting on August 19. The sessions from around the world are listed here. This is the 80th assembly of IFLA World Library and Information […]
Long-time LGBT advocate Vernita Gray has died at the age of 65. In the 1970s, she established the first lesbian newspaper in Chicago, The Lavender Woman, worked on her own poetry and other writing, and received writing and communications degrees from Columbia College Chicago. Her chapbook is called Sweet Sixteen. Gray also created a lesbian […]
By Tess Goldwasser John has been involved with the GLBTRT since 1991, back when it was called the Gay and Lesbian Task Force and marched with them in 1992 at the pride parade in San Francisco. The resulting photo on the cover of American Libraries ignited an ongoing controversy with some ALA members claiming that […]
By John Mack Freeman I am not a brony. Well, not yet anyway. I’ve never seen an episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. But given my love for other cartoons that have a quirky sense of humor (the age-appropriate Adventure Time and the not-quite-so-age-appropriate Phineas and Ferb), I can see where the draw […]
Teen sweethearts Katie Hill and Arin Andrews met at a support group for transgender teens. According to Queerty: “19-year-old Katie Hill was in the process of transitioning from male to female when she fell in love with 18-year-old Arin Andrews, who was undergoing his own transition from female to male. The Oklahoma teenagers first went public with their […]
The Central Station was the largest gay club in Moscow, but its run came to a close this week. The owners shuttered the establishment, citing the increase in violence that the club has experienced over the last year. Much of this violence is likely influenced by the homophobic gay propaganda law that Russia enacted in […]