Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
By John Mack Freeman (thanks to Nel for the tip!) Alaska Airlines has unveiled a new addition to their website focused on LGBT travel. The first push of the new initiative is to offer discounted airfare to cities during that cities Pride celebrations (and yes, San Francisco is on the list). Via Gay Star News: […]
By John Mack Freeman Mortal Kombat X introduces the character of Kung Jin, a former thief and now Shaolin monk and member of the Special Forces Unit. Via PinkNews: Through a series of flashbacks, gamers will get to see new character Kung Jin explore his sexuality as he fights with several others. When fan favourite character Raiden tells […]
By John Mack Freeman GLAAD released their 2015 Studio Responsibility Index this week. The index tracks LGBT representation in major studio films in wide release from year to year. Some of their findings included: 17.5% of analyzed films had LGBT representation of some kind, slightly up from 2014. Female-identified LGBT people made up 32% of […]
By Ashley R. Lierman I’m hesitant to call myself a gamer for a number of reasons, some of them obvious. I’ve played console video games regularly for most of my life, probably hundreds of them by now, since my sister and I were first given our treasured NES with Super Mario Brothers and Duck Hunt […]
By Ashley R. Lierman According to a recent press release, Roland Emmerich’s documentary on the Stonewall riots will be released this fall by Roadside Attractions, according to the Advocate: “I was always interested and passionate about telling this important story, but I feel it has never been more timely than right now,” Emmerich said in […]
By John Mack Freeman Classic children’s book Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman has been updated with new illustrations to make the book more contemporary and accessible to a new generation of young readers. Via the Associated Press: A playful picture book about a little girl named Heather and her two happy mommies was a cultural […]
By John Mack Freeman The world’s largest social media platform has begun to crack down more on hate speech on the site. Facebook released new community guidelines that continue to explicitly forbid hate speech while making it easier to report violations. Hate speech can now be flagged directly from the reporting bar instead of being […]
By John Mack Freeman The Clean Reader app for iOS and Android released recently. This program blocks profanity from e-books by taking out the offending word and replacing it with a “cleaner” alternative or by simply leaving a blank space. Although the word is viewable by tapping the space, the goal of the app is […]
By Ashley R. Lierman The first official LGBT character in the Star Wars canon will appear in Paul S. Kemp’s novel Lords of the Sith,reports Big Shiny Robot: Moff Mors is an Imperial who has made some very serious mistakes but she is an incredibly capable leader and spends much of the book working hard […]
By John Mack Freeman Lambda Literary has published the list of finalists for their 2015 awards. The finalists were chosed from 818 submissions from 407 publishers. The winners will be announced on June 1st. The complete list can be seen here.