Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
Via press release The Lesbian Herstory Archives is raffling off 2, 4-DAY passes to New York Comic Con (October 9- 12th @ Jacob Javitz) in honor of our 40th Anniversary. To enter just donate $10.00 to LHA via our Network For Good fundraising page through 11:59pm October 5th. Type “NYCC” in the Designation box. You […]
By John Mack Freeman (Thanks to Peter Coyl for the head’s up!) Television got queerer this year according to a new study by GLAAD. 3.9 percent of all series regulars on the five major networks are lesbian, gay, or bisexual. In 2014, there were no series regulars on a major network that were transgender (However, if the […]
By Ashley R. Lierman These are interesting times to be a part of American geek culture as a member of any minority group. I mean that both in the genuine, positive sense, and in the sense of how that’s supposedly a curse. For better or for worse, women geeks, geeks of color, and gay, lesbian, […]
By Ashley R. Lierman Yesterday, The Advocate posted a review of the wildly popular podcast Welcome to Night Vale. The podcast, which takes the form of a community radio program broadcasting from a very strange little desert town, has become well-known for its wicked sense of humor and its seamless blend of the banal everyday with […]
By John Mack Freeman Over the last few weeks, tensions have been mounting between the drag community and Facebook. We even reported about it here. Basically, Facebook has a policy that all individuals using a personal account have to use their real name. Drag queens, by and large, have been using their stage personas on personal pages, […]
By John Mack Freeman Ultimate Fighting Championship’s women’s batamweight leader Ronda Rousey has refused to fight Fallon Fox. Rousey, who has won her last ten fights, has previously claimed that she could take anyone in the world. However, when trans fighter Fallon Fox challenged her, she refused. Rousey is claiming that trans fighters have an […]
By Ashley R. Lierman Last week Alison Bechdel, openly gay comic artist and author of the Eisner- and Stonewall-winning graphic memoir Fun Home, was awarded a $625,000 ‘genius’ grant by the MacArthur Foundation. Bechdel is one of 21 recipients of the award for 2014. Bechdel’s work has earned critical acclaim and multiple awards, and she […]
By Ilyse Kramer Daisy Hernández has written eloquently and expansively about race, class, gender, and sexuality as a former editor of ColorLines Magazine, a columnist of Ms. Magazine, and editor of several anthologies. Now she has turned the focus of these topics upon herself in her new memoir, A Cup of Water Under My Bed. […]
By John Mack Freeman This week, a lot of people have gotten up in arms because two men got married in New Zealand. Well, that’s not it exactly. It’s more that the two men were heterosexual, they were getting married as a part of a radio station stunt, and they got married to win tickets […]
By Ashley R. Lierman The upcoming FOX Batman prequel show will feature the character Detective Renee Montoya, a Latina lesbian, as part of its principal cast, according to show creators. Montoya came out as a lesbian in the Batman comics in 2003, and co–executive producer Danny Cannon has affirmed the show’s commitment to include the […]