Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
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By Ashley R. Lierman The Dog, directed by Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren, chronicles the life of John Wojtowicz, who was the inspiration for Al Pacino’s character in Dog Day Afternoon. Wojtowicz was a complicated character: an early gay rights activist and a proponent of same-sex marriage at a time when the issue was not even […]
Submitted by Ashley R. Lierman Via the Advocate: Australia’s Special Broadcasting Service bills itself as “inclusive, expansive and courageous,” and it appears to be living up to that claim as it launches a new show called Living With the Enemy next month, with a first episode that features a staunchly conservative Anglican minister forced to […]
A judge in Uganda recently ruled that that country’s anti-gay law was invalid. He reached this finding due to the fact that the legislature lacked a quorum when the bill was passed. Via PinkNews: President Yoweri Museveni signed the draconian Anti-Homosexuality Bill in February. The law calls for repeat offenders to be sentenced to 14 […]
Via their website: Harmony Ink Press is accepting manuscripts for young adult fiction featuring at least one strong LGBTQ+ main character who shows significant personal growth through the course of the story. Identifying as part of the LGBTQ+ spectrum can be part of the growth process depicted in the book. We are looking for stories in all […]
Anti-LGBT activists in Houston recently tried to challenge that city’s HERO law that seeks to protect LGBT people. They had turned in over 31,000 signatures, well over the 17,269 signature threshold. However, when the city started to analyze the signatures, things quickly got interesting. Numerous pages of signatures were filled out incorrectly. Further some pages were […]
Camp Abercorn is a new series that is being crowdfunded via Indiegogo to confront the Boy Scouts of America’s discriminatory rules forbidding gay adults from participating in scouting. From their Indiegogo page: Camp Abercorn is a dramatic web series about the blunders and the victories—an authentic portrayal of life on camp staff. For ten weeks […]
The 2013 British Columbia Health Survey showed that LGB adolescents were much more likely to become pregnant or cause a pregnancy than their straight peers. Gay and bisexual boys were more than four times more likely to cause a pregnancy. Lesbian and bisexual girls were more than twice as likely to become pregnant. The studied […]
Compiled by John Mack Freeman The New Yorker published a piece by Michelle Goldberg called “What is a Woman?: The dispute between radical feminism and transgenderism.” This article is making waves and has already prompted a response from Mari Brighe on Autostraddle entitled “The New Yorker’s Skewed History of Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminism Ignores Actual Trans Women.” […]
By John Mack Freeman A new study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology found that students who had read more of the Harry Potter series and empathized more with the main character were more likely to show tolerance towards gay people, immigrants, and refugees. The researchers from four universities studied children at elementary, high […]
New research from the University of British Columbia has found that many LGBT people are leaving traditionally gay neighborhoods. Via UBC: Fewer same-sex couples reside in historically gay neighbourhoods compared to 10 years ago, according to one of the largest studies of sexuality in the U.S. Led by University of British Columbia sociologist Amin Ghaziani, […]