The Rainbow Round Table is currently accepting nominations for our non-book awards, the RRT Award for Political Activism, the Newlen-Symons Award for Excellence, and the Larry Romans Mentorship Award (with @godort). Submission deadline is March 31. https://www.ala.org/rt/rrt/awards
Category: Awards
“Passing” and “Miguel’s War” win NewFest prizes
“Passing” won the U.S. Narrative Feature Jury Award at this year’s NewFest, the LGBTQ film festival’s 33rd year. “Miguel’s War” won the Documentary Feature Jury Award and “A Distant Place” won the International Narrative Feature Jury Award. https://variety.com/2021/awards/news/passing-miguels-war-newfest-lgbtq-film-festival-1235096398/
Stonewall Book Awards Celebration
The 2021 Stonewall Book Awards Celebration is now available to watch online! This year marked the 50th anniversary of the awards sponsored by the American Library Association’s Rainbow Round Table.
Lambda Literary announces 2021 winners
The 33rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards were announced on June 1. The list of the Lammy Award winners, selected by “over 60 literary professionals from more than 1,000 book submissions from over 300 publishers” is here: https://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/2021-winners/
Stonewall Book Awards announced!
The Stonewall Book Awards were announced during ALA’s Midwinter meeting. Congratulations! Here are this year’s winners and honorees: Barbara Gittings Literature Award: The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar. Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award: The Queer Games Avant Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games by Bonnie Ruberg. Mike Morgan […]
RRT e-Social tonight!
The Rainbow Round Table e-Social is tonight (Sunday, January 24) at 7PM CST. Join us for fun and festivities and the announcement of the 2021 Adult Stonewall Book Awards! https://www.facebook.com/events/870672767099350 https://ala-events.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJctduGoqjooGNU68lZjht_ixRlQo5uIXo78
Douglas Stuart’s “Shuggie Bain” wins the Booker prize
Douglas Stuart’s debut novel Shuggie Bain, about a queer boy growing up in 1980’s Glasgow, Scotland, won the Booker Prize last week. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-54976523 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/19/douglas-stuart-wins-booker-prize-for-debut-shuggie-bain Recently Stuart talked to NPR and to Vulture: https://www.npr.org/2020/11/14/934548946/shuggie-bain-will-lift-you-up-and-tear-you-up https://www.vulture.com/2020/11/shuggie-bain-douglas-stuart.html
Carnegie Medals longlist announced; “Shuggie Bain”, “Memorial” & “My Autobiography of Carson McCullers” make the list
The 2021 longlist for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction has been announced. Two novels with LGBTQ themes, Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart and Memorial by Bryan Washington, are on the fiction list while My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland, described as an “exploration of one of America’s most […]
Douglas Stuart’s “Shuggie Bain” on the Booker shortlist
Douglas Stuart’s debut novel Shuggie Bain has also made the Booker Prize shortlist (and last week was named to the longlist for the National Book Award) with his coming of age tale of a young gay Glasgow boy set during the 1980’s. Stuart spoke about his book earlier this summer: https://theface.com/culture/shuggie-bain-douglas-stuart-book-release-picador
Brandon Taylor’s “Real Life” makes the Booker shortlist
Brandon Taylor’s debut novel Real Life, an LGBTQ themed novel set on a Midwestern campus, has made the shortlist for this year’s Booker Prize. Taylor gave this interview earlier this summer: https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/m7jkep/brandon-taylor-real-life-casual-racism-review-interview