Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
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The Beverly Hills City Council voted unanimously for a resolution urging the nation of Brunei to sell The Beverly Hills Hotel because of the country’s penal code of “kill-a-gay” and “flog-a-woman.” The Brunei Investment Agency, managed by the Brunei Ministry of Finance controlled by Brunei’s sultan, also owns the the Bel-Air Hotel and other Dorchester […]
HGTV has dropped its series Flip It Forward because of the stars homophobic views. The father of twin brothers and Liberty University graduates Jason and David Benham leads the anti-LGBT group, Operation Save America, that has also protested everything from the interfaith Sandy Hook memorial to mosques. At a prayer rally outside the 2012 Democratic […]
A group called Pissed Off Trans* People is attempting to revolutionize gendered bathrooms at Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT) by replacing traditional signs with non-gendered ones. [sign] Signs that read “Men” or “Women” have been replaced with new ones and a manifesto, “Desegregate Wesleyan Bathrooms.” Although some of the bathrooms have been re-gendered, the group’s actions […]
The Boy Scouts of America just can’t stop discriminating against gay scouts. Last week, 19 year old Garrett Bryant was involved in a dust-up with the BSA. Comments made on one of Bryant’s social media accounts led to the implications that he was gay. Bryant remained closeted during his entire time with the Boy Scouts […]
Senior clerics of the Roman Catholic church will be meeting this fall to discuss many hot-button issues that have long placed the church on the opposite side of progressive forces. Gay marriage, contraception, cohabitation before marriage, remarriage, and divorce will all be on the agenda. The meeting, called by Pope Francis, seeks input from Catholics […]
A new documentary seeks to explore what makes the gay voice and what it means in today’s society. The film will be called Do I Sound Gay?, and it will tackle an issue that is often noted but rarely discussed. From the film’s Kickstarter page: In the tradition of funny-but-serious first-person movies like Supersize Me, Roger and Me and Good Hair, […]
Discharged Navy servicemember Landon Wilson recently launched an effort to fund a new documentary. Entitled TransMilitary, the film will focus the enforced secrecy that trans servicemembers endure on a daily basis. To help fund this film, you can visit their GoFundMe page here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uylyC7HPeYQ
StoryCorps recently announced that OutLoud, its division that helps capture the stories of LGBTQ people, will undertake a new initiative starting in June 2014 to record our stories. The goal of this initiative is to record stories from people who lived before the Stonewall uprisings in 1969. Stay tuned for more information about how to get […]
Antonia Ayres-Brown was just 11 when she first became irritated that the toys given to children at McDonald’s were often predetermined by the supposed gender of the child. Typically, this meant blue and rugged for boys and pink and frilly for girls. Here initial complaints went unheeded, so Ayres-Brown spent the next 6 years compiling […]
GLBTRT member John Mack Freeman has been awarded this year’s Gordon M. Conable Conference Scholarship from the Freedom to Read Foundation. The full press release can be found here. Congratulations, Mack!