Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
Award winning writer and professor Randall Kenan has died at the age of 57. Kenan explored Black gay life in the South with story collections (Let the Dead Bury Their Dead) and a novel (A Visitation of Spirits) and also edited a collection of James Baldwin non-fiction (The Cross of Redemption). His most recent collection […]
A new Andy Warhol retrospective at the Tate Modern in London explores themes of gender, sexuality and race in his work and his life. https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/warhol-exhibit-explores-roles-gender-sexuality-his-life-art-n1236516 The exhibit can be explored virtually through this tour: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/andy-warhol/exhibition-guide Image from Tate Modern
As we celebrate the centennial of women’s suffrage and the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, there are several pieces examining and honoring queer suffragists and their place in the movement: https://www.them.us/story/queer-suffragist-history https://www.womensvote100.org/the-suff-buffs-blog/2020/6/9/the-very-queer-history-of-the-suffrage-movement
A proposed new rule by the Department of Health and Human Services that would have rolled back protection of transgender patients was halted by a judge this week until it can be heard by a court. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-rule-transgender-health-blocked-11th-hour-n1237044
LGBTQ activists have been rallying in Poland during the past few weeks in what some have called the “Polish Stonewall”. https://time.com/5878424/poland-lgbt-protests-police-brutality/ https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/889eyg/the-polish-stonewall-is-happening-as-we-speak
Author Tomasz Jedrowski’s debut novel Swimming In the Dark is a portrait of growing up LGBTQ in Poland. https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/y3znb7/swimming-in-the-dark-by-tomasz-jedrowski-explores-what-it-means-to-be-queer-in-poland
First Second Books has published a 25th anniversary edition of the late Howard Cruse’s classic graphic novel, Stuck Rubber Baby. Alison Bechdel has written an introduction for this edition: https://slate.com/culture/2020/07/alison-bechdel-howard-cruse-stuck-rubber-baby.html
Eric Cervini’s new book, The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America (which recently became the first LGBTQ history book to appear on the New York Times bestseller list in over two decades), explores the early LGBTQ rights movement focusing on Frank Kameny’s activism while tracing its ties and debts to other […]
Recent piece focusing on some LGBTQ zines and their creators: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/in-zines-lgbtq-creators-find-a-place-to-tell-their-own-stories
“Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin: Through the Unusual Door”, an exhibit at the Knoxville (TN) Museum of Art explores the 38 year relationship between artist Beauford Delaney and author James Baldwin, a friendship that “shaped one another’s creative output and worldview”, and the exhibit tells their story while exploring the “nature of the racial and […]