Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
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In the past few weeks, judges in both Utah and Oklahoma have found those countries anti-marriage equality amendments unconstitutional. Higher courts have stayed both rulings, but the march of progress seems to continue unabated. But, looking only at the United States can give a false view of where LGBTQ people stand around the world. Problems […]
The GLBTRT Executive Board is seeking membership comments on the report from the Stonewall Ad Hoc Committee before Midwinter Meeting 2014. Lisa Johnston will compile the responses sent to the membership list at glbtrt-l@ala.org, and the Board will discuss these and the report at the meeting on Saturday morning. Click here to view the full […]
By Tess Goldwasser Meet KT Horning: Long-time member of the GLBTRT, KT served on the Stonewall Book Award Committee in 1987. One of her best memories from that experience was having lunch with one of that year’s winning authors, Joan Nestle, who won for A Restricted Country. More recently she’s served on the Rainbow List Committee […]
Breaking News (5:30 PM EST): From The New Civil Rights Movement: “Federal U.S. District Judge Terence Kern has just ruled that Oklahoma’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. The judge also stayed his ruling pending possible appeal, so same-sex couples cannot yet marry in Oklahoma.” For more information, click here. From the HRC Blog
PS Classics has released an album of the musical based on Alison’s Bechdel’s Fun Home. The cartoonist’s graphic memoir reveals the author’s developing understanding of her sexuality while she was a child and addresses questions about her closeted father’s hidden life and sudden death. The New York Times reviewed the production at the Public Theater […]
Upcoming anthology in New Lit Salon Press’s new series: Behind the Yellow Wallpaper: New Tales of Madness is seeking submissions. Pieces should address issues of intersectionality that may affect women’s mental health such as physicality, sexuality, trans’ identity, race, class, pregnancy and motherhood, religion, etc.; address any other social issues that impact women’s mental health; […]
U.S. schools had 53 percent more book banning incidents in 2013 than in the previous year, according to the National Coalition against Censorship. A project called The Kids’ Right to Read Project investigated three times the average number of problems, according to Coordinator Acacia O’Connor. The Coalition provides resources on its website including a Book […]
The British Library has released over one million images from digitized books from 1600-1900 onto Flickr Commons for anyone to use, mix, and repurpose. Maps, comical satire, decorative letters, landscapes, and other illustrations are now in the public domain thanks to a gift from Microsoft. The featured image comes from Historia de las Indias de […]
For the first time, Blake Little’s Photographs from the Gay Rodeo can be seen at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art (Indianapolis) starting on February 1, 2014. These 41 black-and-white images of gay and lesbians on the gay rodeo circuit date back to 1988. Curator Johanna Blume said, “This exhibit also explores […]
Future GLBT News will also publish profiles of GLBTRT members. If you would like to write a profile for this space, please contact the editor. Advocate has highlighted 25 LGBT movers and shakers who are over 65, yet “continue to inspire us and haven’t allowed the age formally known as retirement to sideline them in […]