Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
While the IRS is the perennial butt of jokes due to their perennially unpopular status, they have released a video to help same-sex couples who have married navigate their tax situation. Per a White Hourse press release: The Internal Revenue Service released a new YouTube video designed to provide useful tax tips to married same-sex […]
LGBT people traveling in Mississippi should do so with caution, according to GetEQUAL Mississippi. The travel alert was based on pending legislation that would allow “religious freedom” discrimination allowing businesses to refuse service to LGBT people. The bill has passed the state Senate and may be debated in the state House this week. A similar […]
For the 26th annual books awards, Lambda Literary has added another category: Graphic Novel. The Lammy finalists come from this year’s 746 submissions, up from 687 last year. Titles representing achievement in LGBT writing published in 2013 will be announced on June 2, 2014 at The Great Hall at Cooper Union (7 East 7th Street, […]
The Kansas Senate Judiciary Committee has approved a bill that would prosecute teachers, librarians, and school administrators for providing materials “harmful to minors.” It was introduced in reaction to a sex poster on a middle-school classroom door. The bill’s definition is as follows: (A) The average adult person applying contemporary community standards would find that […]
The website Rainbow Gray has found GLBTRT through one of its committees! Stephen Dolainski’s introduction to his article about OTR and its current bibliography: “I’m sure I knew at some time in the past that there was a Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Round Table (GLBTRT) within the American Library Association. Or maybe not. Well, […]
According to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, state attorneys general are not obligated to defend state laws banning same-sex marriage if their discrimination violates the U.S. Constitution. Thus far, AGs in six states have declined to defend anti-marriage equality laws: Virginia, Pennsylvania, California, Illinois, Oregon and Nevada. The Supreme Court of Idaho has ruled that […]
By John Mack Freeman One of the best ways to track a lot of information is to make a visual out of it. That way, trends that seem hard to see on paper easily become visible, and the ideas contained within the information become much easier to share. And as a data junkie myself, the […]
The presence of gay-straight alliance (GSA) groups in schools reduces the risk of suicide among both LGBTQ and straight teens, according to a study published in the International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies and funded by the Canadian Institute of Health Research. In schools where GSAs existed for three or more years: The […]
An attempt from a coalition of conservative groups failed to get the 504,760 votes necessary to put a measure to repeal the new transgender students’ rights law on the fall ballot. This is good news for students in one state, but other transgender students in the U.S. don’t have the same equality. At the same […]
A recent lawsuit against the Kilgore ISD has been settled for $77,000. Two softball coaches, Rhonda Fletcher and Cassandra Newell, called Skye Wyatt, a 16-year-old player, to a practice off-campus. When Skye and the rest of the team arrived, the coaches dismissed everyone but Skye. They then harassed her, accusing her of being a lesbian […]