Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
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The 26th Annual Lambda Literary Awards were announced last night in New York. Alison Bechdel was awarded the Trustees Award for Excellence in Literature while Kate Bornstein was awarded the Pioneer Award. For a full list of the winners, you can visit the Lambda Literary site and scroll to the bottom.
When Fox network indulges in gay bashing, it usually ignores criticism—or at the most just ridicules those who disagree with them. This was not the case after Dr. Robi Ludwig, an “expert” psychologist consultant for the network, asserted a few hours after the recent Santa Barbara massacre that the killer was motivated by “his homosexual […]
Nasir Fleming is a gay male student at Danbury High School in Connecticut. This past week, he made the news for winning the title of “prom queen” at his school. Fleming decide to run for prom queen as opposed to king to make a statement against transphobia in beauty and talent competitions. As Fleming said […]
Duke University Press recently released the first issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, the first non-medical journal to specifically focus on transgender studies. The initial call for submissions was so successful that the first issue was turned into a book-length 300-page double issue that is currently on sale. Here is the description from the Duke University Press […]
Over on YALSA’s blog today, they have posted an entry on how to run a Gay-Straight Alliance at your library. Head on over to their blog to read it and participate in the conversation in the comments.
Storme DeLarverie was one of the lesbian activists who took part in the Stonewall Riots in 1969. She was 93 years old when she passed away this past week. Born in New Orleans in the 1920s, DeLarverie was a bouncer, a successful drag artist, and a longtime advocate for LGBT rights. Queerty has compiled a […]
A 15-year-old student from Vancouver has developed an HIV test that delivers instant results. Nicole Ticea is a Grade 10 student who developed the test in conjunction with Simon Fraser University. The test involves putting a drop of blood on a testing chip and the process is only slightly more difficult than a traditional pregnancy […]
You may remember a few months ago when the South Carolina House cut funding from two universities in that state because they had the audacity to assign LGBT-related reading material to students. The South Carolina Senate has restored the cut funding, but the restoration has come with the provision that the schools must use the […]
Tyra Banks and Guy Rosenthal are producing a new docuseries for VH1 that will follow the lives of five trans people who live in Chicago. The focus of documentary will be on the subjects romantic lives and professional aspirations. The show is entitled TransAmerica and will also feature Carmen Carrera (of RuPaul’s Drag Race fame) in the role of […]
Last week, Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley signed into law the Fairness for All Marylanders Act which protects transgender people from discrimination in housing, public accommodation, and employment. The law goes into effect on October 1, 2014. There is a movement in some conservative circles to issue a recall of the law by placing it as […]