Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
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The United States came out 12th in a Pew poll about attitudes regarding homosexuality in 40 countries. The survey asked this question: “Do you personally believe that homosexuality is morally acceptable, morally unacceptable, or is it not a moral issue?” Spain was first, with only 6 percent of the respondents stating that homosexuality is morally […]
Two countries are releasing stamps to honor gay men. In Finland, the late graphic artist Tom of Finland, born Touko Laaksonen, will be represented on a new series of stamps to be available in September (NSFW-ish). Tom of Finland became an icon because of his homoerotic drawings. is about to become further cemented as an icon […]
Alison Bechdel, author of the graphic narrative Fun Home, was so horrified that South Carolina legislators had censored her book that she helped make arrangements to have the off-Broadway musical based on the book presented at the College of Charleston. Two performances were shown on the evening of April 21 with almost 1,000 tickets sold […]
The New York Public Library is providing stipends for up to two Martin Duberman Visiting Scholars, including travel to New York City and related expenses to do research in the Library’s premier LGBT (Lesbian, Gay,Bisexual, and Transgender) history collections. The travel grants awarded range from $1,000 to $8,500. The program is limited to emerging scholars—those […]
By Tess Goldwasser Involved with the GLBTRT Program Planning Committee for the past five years, Shawn is now the chair. He also served a short term as director-at-large on the board and is moving into a role on the Bylaws committee and an ad-hoc committee planning a 2015 preconference. He hopes to use different responsibilities […]
While Mississippi may have signed a “religious freedom” bill into law last week, that doesn’t mean that all Mississippi businesses are taking the news lying down. The law allows businesses to refuse service to any person based on the sincerely held religious belief of the person providing the service. Although targeted towards the LGBT community, […]
GaymerX2 will be this summer from July 11-13, 2014 in San Francisco. However, this will be the last opportunity to visit this con. Citing an over-burdening of volunteers, too rapid expansion, and financial losses from the convention, founder Matt Conn announced on Twitter that this would be the last con for a while, though he […]
A South Carolina lawsuit against the Department of Social Services and two hospitals must proceed according to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. The case involves a decision made to surgically change an intersex 16-month-old child into a girl by removing the penis and testicle. Now eight, M.C. has been reared as a female but […]
Following a case about a 92-year-old transgender widow, the Social Security Administration has declared that it is changing its policy regarding transgender spouses. The new SSA policy presumes that most marriages are valid regardless of whether a spouse is transgender.
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal from Elaine Huguenin at Elane Photography who claimed that her religious beliefs prevented her from photographing a same-sex couple’s commitment ceremony. The New Mexico Supreme Court ruled that Huguenin had violated the state’s anti-discrimination laws “in the same way as if it had refused to […]