Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
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Via press release YALSA offers a variety of grants and awards to its members who hold positions as librarians who serve young adults. Grant categories range from funding research projects in relation to teens and libraries, travel stipends to ALA conferences, to providing new reading materials to libraries in need. Most applications must be submitted […]
By John Mack Freeman HBO has ordered a new series called Bros. that will follow Kendall, a modern gay black man. The main cast is rounded out by his two straight brothers who try to help him out while figuring out the struggles in their own lives. Via Out.com: “Bros Before Hos isn’t a black story or a […]
By John Mack Freeman The citizens of Dallas, Texas overwhelmingly voted Tuesday night to include sexual orientation and gender identity in the city’s nondiscrimination policy found in the City Constitution. Over 77 percent of those who voted in the election were in favor of including the new language. Via Lone Star Q: Dallas already prohibited […]
By John Mack Freeman Geeks Out is an organization that began in 2010 with goal of uniting queer people at geek events and to promote the visibility of LGBT people and issues at these events. They are now taking this one step further by seeking to host their first ever entirely queer-themed convention called “Flame […]
By John Mack Freeman Though many same sex marriage advocates may have been concerned about their forward momentum with the Republican surge win this week in the midterm elections, this has not stopped judicial progress on this issue. Same sex marriage bans fell in both Missouri and Kansas this week. A state judge in St. […]
By Ashley R. Lierman A new indie film titled Three Generations will feature cisgendered actress Elle Fanning in a lead role as a young trans man, the Advocate reports: Written by Nikole Beckwith and based on an original concept by director Gaby Dellal, the film will likely face a similar criticism to recent trans-focused scripted […]
By Ilyse Kramer Charles M. Blow, who writes a visual Op-Ed column for The New York Times, came out as bisexual in his recently published memoir, Fire Shut Up in My Bones. Another personal truth that he reveals, and is careful to distinguish has not caused his bisexuality, is that he is a survivor of […]
By John Mack Freeman The Manchester Libraries have teamed with the Lesbian and Gay Foundation to make the Foundation’s holdings more publicly accessible. Via PinkNews: The LGF’s history collection – made available at Central Library in Manchester – includes a comprehensive catalogues of LGB magazines, including Mancunian Gay, Outnorthwest, Gay Times, Diva, and several grassroots […]
By John Mack Freeman In an essay in this morning’s Businessweek, Apple CEO Tim Cook came out as gay. Admitting that he had long been out in his personal life and to colleagues at Apple, Cook came out to the public at large saying in part: “I don’t consider myself an activist, but I realize how much […]
Via Kelly McElroy on the GLBTRT-L list QZAP is a completely grassroots collective which works to collect, digitize, and provide access to queer zines online through their searchable database. In celebration of their 11th anniversary, we are launching MoFemmeBer, a fundraiser and zine-readathon. In order to raise funds, we’re asking folks to get their friends […]