Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
Ahead of the Transgender Day of Awareness, this article provides information about the transgender people lost last year. https://www.forbes.com/sites/lakenbrooks/2021/11/14/2021-has-been-a-deadly-year-for-transgender-people/?sh=3c5eee806e8b
Authors JR and Vanessa Ford along with illustrator Kayla Harren write about how their young protagonist deals with the feelings of being a transgender kid. https://www.npr.org/2021/11/11/1054341669/whats-it-like-to-be-seen-as-a-girl-but-feel-like-a-boy-ask-calvin
The Navy christened the USNS Harvey Milk, a fleet replenishment oiler named after Milk who was a Navy veteran and one of the nation’s first openly gay elected officials. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/11/07/navy-christens-ship-usns-harvey-milk-after-gay-rights-activist/6330296001/
Check out these candidates up for election tomorrow. https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/8-lgbtq-candidates-make-history-november-rcna3940
Dr. Rachel Levine, the nation’s most senior transgender official, made history again Tuesday by becoming the first openly transgender four-star officer across any of the country’s eight uniformed services. https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-health-and-wellness/dr-rachel-levine-becomes-nations-first-transgender-four-star-officer-rcna3283
21 people who came out in 2021! https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/nbc-out-proud/national-coming-day-21-people-come-2021-rcna2839
Campbell County Public Library officials in Wyoming have been facing a local outcry over the books and for scheduling a transgender magician to perform for youngsters, an act canceled amid threats against the magician and library staff. https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/wyoming-librarians-fire-books-sex-lgbtq-80360733
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, this article highlights 11 Hispanic LGBTQ individuals. https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/09/11-hispanic-people-impact-lgbtq-rights-america-may-not-know/
Carl Bean who recorded “I Was Born This Way,” a disco song of L.G.B.T.Q. pride and who then became a minister and AIDS activist passed away recently. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/10/us/carl-bean-dead.html
The Rainbow Round Table is now taking applications for the Rainbow Book List Committee, Over the Rainbow Book List Committee, Stonewall Book Awards – Barbara Gittings Literature Award Committee, Stonewall Book Awards – Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award Committee, and the Stonewall Book Awards – Mike Morgan and Larry Roman Children’s and Young Adult Committee. Service begins on February 1, 2022, […]