Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
Indie game designer Nicky Case has developed Coming Out Simulator 2014, a free online game that simulates the process of coming out. The game is based on Case’s own coming out process, and it allows the player to choose a variety of conversational choices throughout the storyline. Characters remember what you have said, and they […]
By John Mack Freeman There was a bit of movement in the sports world this week on LGBT issues. This week, Major League Baseball recognized Glenn Burke, the first player to ever come out while playing professional baseball. At the news conference, commissioner Burt Selig announced that former MLB-player Billy Bean will be appointed the […]
By Ashley R. Lierman Speculation has come to an end on whether the NBC adaptation of long-running DC Comics series Hellblazer will retain the main character’s bisexuality – and the answer is no. Executive producers David S. Goyer were willing to fight to show evidence of John Constantine’s smoking habit onscreen, it seems, but found […]
By Ashley R. Lierman Iconic comic book character Archie Andrews will officially meet his end in an upcoming issue, saving the life of his friend Kevin Keller, the first openly gay character in Archie Comics. Keller is a military veteran who has now married and has been elected to the Senate. He returns to Riverdale […]
Despite the best efforts of the Russian government to stamp down LGBT people at the Olympics, they couldn’t get rid of everything. A documentary that revolves around the lives of gay athletes at the games was secretly filmed during the Olympics. The film will premier in October at EPIX. It is fronted by Johnny Weir […]
Via Youtube: When he was a child, George Takei and his family were forced into an internment camp for Japanese-Americans, as a “security” measure during World War II. 70 years later, Takei looks back at how the camp shaped his surprising, personal definition of patriotism and democracy.
An Ancient Grecian erotic carving was found this week by Dr. Andreas Vlachopoulos. While working on the Greek island of Astypalaia, Via The Bilerico Project: Dr. Vlachopoulos added that the newly-discovered graffiti is especially significant because of its use of the past continuous tense (i.e. “was mounting”). “It clearly says,” explained Vlachopoulos, “that these two men were making […]
On June 20th (and thereabouts) this year, the Wikimedia Foundation held its first ever “Wiki Loves Pride” event. The event sought to bring together people in cities around the country and the world to improve the LGBT content available on Wikipedia. The goal is not only to increase the total number of articles dealing with […]
PinkNews is reporting that the National Library Board in Singapore has ordered the withdrawal of two children’s books with LGBT characters. The books And Tango Makes Three and The White Swan Express have been removed from their collections following a single complaint. Petitions to reverse the action have so far gone nowhere, and it is expected that the […]
On Tuesday, July 8th, Wizards of the Coast released the free basic rules for the fifth edition of the long-running RPG Dungeons and Dragons. For the first time, the rule set contained a section on sex. Here is the full text on that section (Images via GayGamer.net). While the language is admittedly clunky and won’t enter the […]