Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
By Jenna Goodall My primary reason for attending ALA Midwinter was because my acceptance into the Bill Morris Seminar. Sponsored by ALSC, this bi-annual seminar focuses on book evaluation training, and its purpose is to train librarians to become critical evaluators of children’s materials. Hopefully, these librarians will someday serve on ALSC evaluation committees such […]
Meet Nel Ward! Nel is so amazing, I asked her to write her own profile, and here it is! Nel, tell us about yourself… Currently I chair the News Committee, responsible for the new GLBTRT blog, GLBT News (http://www.glbtrt.ala.org/news/). Last month, I finished my terms on Over the Rainbow, and when I leave the News […]
Move over, It Gets Better: you’ve got company. #ComingOutMatters, a new viral social media campaign dedicated to empowering LGBT community, encourages us to share our experiences through YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter. E!’s star Jonny Drubel is celebrity ambassador for Students Moving America in the campaign by using the hashtag #ComingOutMatters. Posts are streamlined into the campaign’s […]
The first trailer for filmmaker Patrik-Ian Polk’s screen adaptation of the novel Blackbird is available on Lambda Literary. Adapted from Larry Duplechan’s novel, the feature film tells of 17-year-old Randy Rousseau, a Christian high school student struggling with his sexuality and family in Mississippi. Check out the trailer below. [vimeo http://vimeo.com/86641697]
Archie Comics first gay character Kevin Keller made a huge splash when he debuted in 2010. Since then, he has become one of the most visible and crowd-pleasing of the comic’s gang. Now, he’s going one step further by becoming a superhero. In line with Archie Comics long-standing tradition of turning its characters into superheroes, […]
In response to the highly acclaimed and incredibly popular original programming from Netflix, Amazon has launched a series of pilots through their Prime service that give viewers the chance to vote on which show they would like to see more of. If a show gets enough support, it gets green lighted for a full season […]
A recent lawsuit against the Kilgore ISD has been settled for $77,000. Two softball coaches, Rhonda Fletcher and Cassandra Newell, called Skye Wyatt, a 16-year-old player, to a practice off-campus. When Skye and the rest of the team arrived, the coaches dismissed everyone but Skye. They then harassed her, accusing her of being a lesbian […]
Just because the Winter Olympics have closed for another four years doesn’t mean that everyone has forgotten about Russia. Indeed, Russia’s anti-gay laws and harassment has become the focus of the Tumblr account Pride Propaganda. The website photoshops classic Russian propaganda posters into full-on pride images by substituting all flags for rainbow flags. The project […]
If you’re a student who needs more money to attend school (and what student doesn’t), there’s a new resource available to you. Campus Pride has unveiled a new LGBT scholarship database that allows both undergraduate and graduate students to find scholarships and grants to help them further their educations.
The British government is rewriting 700 years worth of rules related to the ascension to the British throne to respond to the country’s new same-sex marriage law. But the changes aren’t what you might think at first. They aren’t seeking to block same-sex couples from ever ascending to the throne; in fact, they’re planning on […]