Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
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The ATLAH Missionary Baptist Church in New York City has become notorious over the last few weeks for their signs that have demonized the LGBT population. The signs (reproduced below) have drawn the ire of many due to their hateful content. In response to these signs, 50 LGBT activists arrived at the church this past […]
Rohn Neugebauer, 48, recently died of a heart attack in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Neugebauer’s partner Dan Burda has recently hosted a fundraiser for CORE (Center for Organ Recovery and Education). Thus, when Neugebauer passed away, his family sought to fulfill his wishes to become an organ donor. However, when it was revealed the Negebauer was in […]
Because GLBT News only updates weekly, sometimes stories get pulled in the early part of the week and they have to be changed shortly before we go to post. One case of this is a recent story of the Christian charity World Vision. The initial story, published broadly last week, stated that Richard Stearns, president of the […]
NMRT, an ALA round table for people with fewer than 10 years ALA membership, is offering the Annual Conference Professional Development Attendance Award which provides a ticket to the event of the winner’s choice at the Annual Conference in Las Vegas. All NMRT members not currently serving on the Annual Conference Professional Development Award Committee […]
The tipping point came in February when former Missouri defensive end and likely NFL draft pick Michael Sam announced he is gay. GLAAD, which promotes a positive and accurate media portrayal of GLBT people, now plans to work with You Can Play in a campaign on the importance of LGBT visibility and acceptance in sports. […]
San Francisco’s Castro, the gay icon of the United States, is installing rainbow pedestrian crosswalks. The crossings at the 18th and Castro intersection, costing a local organization $37,400, will hopefully be finished by June’s Pride March. [Photo] Another project is the Rainbow Honor Walk with the names of LGBT civil rights activists on inlaid plaques. […]
A combination of national media attention, petitions, and involvement from HRC made this story a nightmare for the school and a rallying cry for LGBT high schoolers. Earlier this month, administrators at Arkansas’ Sheridan High School removed openly gay Taylor Ellis’ yearbook profile because he talked about his coming out. Superintendent Dr. Brenda Haynes signed […]
Michigan is the latest state where a U.S. district court judge has struck down a state law barring same-sex marriage. The case involved a lesbian couple raising three special-needs adopted children who sued to marry so that both parents could legally adopt all the children. The state joins court victories within the past few months […]
Long-time LGBT advocate Vernita Gray has died at the age of 65. In the 1970s, she established the first lesbian newspaper in Chicago, The Lavender Woman, worked on her own poetry and other writing, and received writing and communications degrees from Columbia College Chicago. Her chapbook is called Sweet Sixteen. Gray also created a lesbian […]
By John Mack Freeman I am not a brony. Well, not yet anyway. I’ve never seen an episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. But given my love for other cartoons that have a quirky sense of humor (the age-appropriate Adventure Time and the not-quite-so-age-appropriate Phineas and Ferb), I can see where the draw […]