Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
Alison Bechdel and Kagte Bornstein will be honored at the 26th Annual Lambda Literary Awards. Bechdel will receive the Foundation’s Trustee Award for Excellence in Literature, and Bornstein will receive the Pioneer Award. Author of award-winning Fun Home and Are You My Mother, Bechdel wrote and drew the comic strips Dykes to Watch Out For, […]
A National Institutes of Health study indicates that married same-sex couples are happier than their non-same sex counterparts. Here’s the latest progress to achieve this across the United States: Oregon: Currently, the same sex marriage ban in Oregon is under trial with no one defending the law after the state Attorney General refused to defend […]
Eric Snyder, a gay high school student in upstate New York, has just submitted his final community service project to earn his designation as an Eagle Scout. Snyder had worried as a closeted sophomore that if the BSA discovered he was gay, it would jeapordize his membership in the organization (this was prior to the […]
Noted transgender television personality B. Scott has lost a case that he brought against BET. The $2.5 million lawsuit alleged that BET had violated Scott’s gender expression by forcing him to change his clothes for the BET Awards pre-show coverage. In the suit, Scott claimed that they “yanked him backstage” and forced him to remove the […]
An article published in the American Journal of Psychiatry on April 18, 2014 by the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London has found a link between bullying and negative health effects for decades to follow. The 7,771 people in this study were all born in the same week in 1958. They were analyzed for the […]
In late March, the United States Department of Justice unveiled a new outreach program that seeks to quell the often contentious relationship between law enforcement and the transgender community. A 2011 study found that 20 percent of transgender respondents had experienced harassment at the hands of law enforcement, and that 6 percent had suffered physical […]
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 […]
The LGBT win in SmithKline Beecham Corp. v. Abbott Laboratories is now closer to providing a strong win for LGBT rights. The case dealt with a man who was excluded from being a juror in because he is gay. The three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals used “heightened scrutiny” in its ruling […]
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, […]
Good news in Minnesota! Gov. Mark Dayton signed a bullying-prevention bill into law to protect students tormented by their classmates. The Safe and Supportive Schools Act, passed almost three years after a large school district, replaced a law of 37 words that many people considered one of the weakest in the country. The new law […]