Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
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Tim Federle, author of Better Nate Than Ever, is featured in today’s NY Times Read Around talking about his new book. Federle’s book Better Nate Than Ever is one of this year’s Stonewall Honor Books in Children’s and Young Adult literature.
Former Library of Congress management analyst Peter TerVeer has legal standing under Title VII of the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 to sue after he was fired in 2012. He has alleged that he lost his job because he is gay. U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly rejected a motion from the U.S. Attorney […]
A parent’s request to withdraw David Levithan’s Two Boys Kissing from the high schools’ libraries in Fauquier County Public Schools (VA) has resulted in a public hearing about the book on April 23. The book will stay in the library until that date; the parents is appealing to the superintendent. The book is about Harry […]
Andraya Williams, a 22-year-old transwoman at Central Piedmont Community College (NC), says that she was suspended from the school for using the women’s restroom until she agrees to use only the school’s gender-neutral restrooms. School spokesman Jeff Lowrance says that technically she hasn’t been suspended. According to Lowrance, much of the campus lacks gender-neutral restrooms. […]
“Transgender and Gender Non-Conformity in Books for Children and Teens” is the May discussion topic for the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The first two weeks is a general discussion of the topic. The second two weeks will concentrate on Susan Kuklin’s Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out […]
Stonewall Books Awards Chair, Peter Coyl, will appear on the Lambda Weekly radio program on Sunday, April 13, from 1-2 pm (CT). The program will be broadcast live on KNON 89.3 FM and live streamed at http://www.knon.org/ First aired in 1983, the program is the longest running LGBT show on the air. It is hosted […]
Courts in at least two states dealt with the thorny problem of swiss-cheese laws surrounding marriage equality this past week. In Ohio, a federal judge struck down part of the state’s ban on LGBT marriage by ordering the state to recognize out-of-state marriages. To give time for appeals, Judge Timothy Black said he will issue […]
By Tess Goldwasser Joel became a GLBTRT member in 2007 while he was still in library school. Since then, he served one year as Director-at-Large on the Executive Board and is now on the Stonewall Book Award committee. “I have always sought to increase the participation of new librarians in the RT, and the encouraging […]
Last week should have been a good week for Brendan Eich. Eich was tapped to become the new CEO of Mozilla, the nonprofit maker of the Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client that he co-founded. However, Eich’s promotion was met with a rapid backlash due to the fact that he donated $1,000 to the effort […]
During a TED talk posted last week, model Geena Rocero came out as transgender. The talk, which delves into her personal history and her evolution over time, is deeply touching and heartfelt. It can be seen below. She furthered used the opportunity to launch Gender Proud, a new campaign that seeks to increase awareness about […]