Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
Chalk this up to marketing done right. At one particular Burger King in downtown San Francisco during Pride, the store offered “Proud Whopper Sandwiches” for sale. When staff were asked about what made them different, they just shrugged and said “I don’t know.” When the burgers arrived to the customer, they were covered in a […]
In a ridiculous move to censor something that everyone already knows about, the South Williamsport School District has cancelled a planned production of Spamalot at South Williamsport High School next spring. The given reason? The show’s final five minutes contain a same-sex marriage. The principal of the school informed the theatre department that the show was inappropriate […]
Photographer iO Tillett Wright has started the Self Evident Truths project in an effort to collect photos of 10,000 LGBT people that identify as anything other than 100% straight. Wright began the project as a response to continued hostility to LGBT causes at the ballot box. The goal is to humanize the struggle for LGBT rights […]
Harrington has released its update “core list” of LGBTQ Peer Review Journals. According to publisher Bill Cohen, there is no commonly accepted criteria for a “LGBTQ peer review journal.” A GLBT research article could be published in any one of thousands of scholarly journals. The list includes journals with the key terms LGBTQ (or any […]
Just in time for last week’s major card giving holiday, Hallmark released a greeting card that featured two fathers on it. This is the first time that the business has honored gay fathers with a specific card. Transgender artist Kylie Summer Wue is responsible for the design on the card, saying on his blog: I’m […]
Right now, the E3 conference is going on, so gamers (and gaymers) around the world are getting fresh looks at what the gaming industry has in store for the coming year. One of these announcements from Square Enix announced that their tent pole series Final Fantasy would feature same sex marriages in the fourteenth installment. […]
Posts have been blowing up back and forth on social media for a few weeks now over RuPaul’s use of the word “tranny.” While the drag queen has refused to back down from her usage of the word, others, including RuPaul’s Drag Race alum Carmen Carrera have labeled her transphobic for her usage of the word. […]
The 26th Annual Lambda Literary Awards were announced last night in New York. Alison Bechdel was awarded the Trustees Award for Excellence in Literature while Kate Bornstein was awarded the Pioneer Award. For a full list of the winners, you can visit the Lambda Literary site and scroll to the bottom.
Time has put transgender activist Laverne Cox on its cover at the same time that an article discusses violence against the LGBT community, particularly the homicide rate among transwomen of color. The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs have found a 21-percent increase in the number of hate incidents against the LGBT community in 2013 when […]
Duke University Press recently released the first issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, the first non-medical journal to specifically focus on transgender studies. The initial call for submissions was so successful that the first issue was turned into a book-length 300-page double issue that is currently on sale. Here is the description from the Duke University Press […]