Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
By John Mack Freeman Atlanta resident Luke O’Donovan was violently attacked outside of a bar in Atlanta, GA in December 2012 by five men. The men stabbed him several times while shouting homophobic slurs at him. O’Donovan defended himself successfully with a pocketknife and made it to an area hospital for treatment. Sounds like a […]
Guest Column. Submitted by Joel Bangilan. Few libraries across the country orchestrate as extensive an observation of Pride Month as San Antonio Public Library. For the past five years Pride has been a rewarding and validating endeavor for the library system. Diversity is not always black and white. Diversity encompasses race, religion, socio-economics, gender, sexual […]
A judge in Uganda recently ruled that that country’s anti-gay law was invalid. He reached this finding due to the fact that the legislature lacked a quorum when the bill was passed. Via PinkNews: President Yoweri Museveni signed the draconian Anti-Homosexuality Bill in February. The law calls for repeat offenders to be sentenced to 14 […]
Anti-LGBT activists in Houston recently tried to challenge that city’s HERO law that seeks to protect LGBT people. They had turned in over 31,000 signatures, well over the 17,269 signature threshold. However, when the city started to analyze the signatures, things quickly got interesting. Numerous pages of signatures were filled out incorrectly. Further some pages were […]
The 2013 British Columbia Health Survey showed that LGB adolescents were much more likely to become pregnant or cause a pregnancy than their straight peers. Gay and bisexual boys were more than four times more likely to cause a pregnancy. Lesbian and bisexual girls were more than twice as likely to become pregnant. The studied […]
Compiled by John Mack Freeman The New Yorker published a piece by Michelle Goldberg called “What is a Woman?: The dispute between radical feminism and transgenderism.” This article is making waves and has already prompted a response from Mari Brighe on Autostraddle entitled “The New Yorker’s Skewed History of Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminism Ignores Actual Trans Women.” […]
By John Mack Freeman A new study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology found that students who had read more of the Harry Potter series and empathized more with the main character were more likely to show tolerance towards gay people, immigrants, and refugees. The researchers from four universities studied children at elementary, high […]
New research from the University of British Columbia has found that many LGBT people are leaving traditionally gay neighborhoods. Via UBC: Fewer same-sex couples reside in historically gay neighbourhoods compared to 10 years ago, according to one of the largest studies of sexuality in the U.S. Led by University of British Columbia sociologist Amin Ghaziani, […]
By John Mack Freeman A new study by the Black Youth Project has found that black and Latino LGBT youth have different priorities for the LGBT community than their white counterparts. In particular, many feel that marriage equality has drawn an inordinate amount of focus away from other important issues. Here are some of the […]
By John Mack Freeman An anonymous website has popped up over the last week in response to a petition drive in Houston. A petition was started to put the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance to a public vote. The petition garnered over 50,000 signatures, well over the 17,000 required for the initiative to be put on […]