Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
According to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, state attorneys general are not obligated to defend state laws banning same-sex marriage if their discrimination violates the U.S. Constitution. Thus far, AGs in six states have declined to defend anti-marriage equality laws: Virginia, Pennsylvania, California, Illinois, Oregon and Nevada. The Supreme Court of Idaho has ruled that […]
By John Mack Freeman One of the best ways to track a lot of information is to make a visual out of it. That way, trends that seem hard to see on paper easily become visible, and the ideas contained within the information become much easier to share. And as a data junkie myself, the […]
Four artists from Guatemala, Mexico, and Cuba are featured in a South Florida exhibition, “In His Own Likeness,” that presents an examination of gender, power, and divinity through a variety of media. Guatemalan artist Eny Roland’s video is an homage to an Andy Warhol film from the 1960s. The exhibition at the Richard Shack Gallery, […]
One of the prestigious organizations for lesbian literature, the Golden Crown Literary Society (GCLS), will hold its annual conference in Portland (OR) on July 9-13, 2014 at the Red Lion Hotel on the River at Janzten Beach. Both educational and social for readers and writers, the meeting also offers aspiring authors the chance to pitch […]
When apparel retailer Banana Republic decided to use model couples from real life, the company included interior designers Nate Berkus and his fiancé, Jeremiah Brent. The photos of them rolling on the grass, cuddling, and posing with other models will appear in magazines including InStyle and Rolling Stone. The ad agency said that its goal was […]
The presence of gay-straight alliance (GSA) groups in schools reduces the risk of suicide among both LGBTQ and straight teens, according to a study published in the International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies and funded by the Canadian Institute of Health Research. In schools where GSAs existed for three or more years: The […]
An attempt from a coalition of conservative groups failed to get the 504,760 votes necessary to put a measure to repeal the new transgender students’ rights law on the fall ballot. This is good news for students in one state, but other transgender students in the U.S. don’t have the same equality. At the same […]
Ellen DeGeneres may be back on NBC on another lesbian comedy series if NBC follows up with a proposed pilot. The lesbian writer of 2 Broke Girls, Liz Feldman, will write the script and co-produce the show with DeGeneres and Jeff Kleeman. One Big Happy will follow a pregnant lesbian and her best friend, a […]
Two state universities have assigned LGBT books to incoming students, and South Carolina lawmakers have proposed cutting $69,000 in funding to the University of South Carolina Upstate and the College of Charleston. Fun Home by Alison Bechdel lost Charleston $52,000 while Out Loud: The Best of Rainbow Radio, a collection of stories from a South […]
Cara Bertram has expressed an interest in obtaining GLBTRT archival records for the American Library Association Archives at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The most recent records that are presently at that location are from before 1997 while the round table was the SRRT Gay and Lesbian task force. Existing records can be reviewed […]