Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
The Publishing Triangle, the association of lesbian and gay men in publishing, has announced its annual literary awards finalists. The awards ceremony will be April 24, 2014, 7:00 pm at the Auditorium of the New School (66 West 12th Street in New York City). at 7 p.m. The free public ceremony is followed by a […]
GLBTRT Executive Board member Lisa Johnston has selected 25 titles about LGBT families for library collection development in the March 14, 2014 edition of Library Journal. Bonuses are lists of resources—sources of awards, bibliographies, reviews, websites, and apps.
By John Mack Freeman I love RuPaul. Have for years. And because of this, I constantly await the only reality show that I watch, RuPaul’s Drag Race. The show kicked off its sixth season on February 21st. On the same day, RuPaul released her* sixth studio album Born Naked (referencing her oft-quoted line, “You’re bone […]
The recently released video game Earth Defense Force 2025 has a language problem. Specifically, the game bans any username that contains the word “gay.” What makes this ironic is that the Playstation Network (through which the game enables online multiplayer access) allows for user profiles to have the word “gay” in their PSN profile name. […]
For over 100 years, Getty Images have put watermarks on its 150 million photographs to keep people from using them without paying for them. For over 25 percent of the photographs, this policy has disappeared. All users have to do in order to use the images free is to give credit and a link to […]
For the 26th annual books awards, Lambda Literary has added another category: Graphic Novel. The Lammy finalists come from this year’s 746 submissions, up from 687 last year. Titles representing achievement in LGBT writing published in 2013 will be announced on June 2, 2014 at The Great Hall at Cooper Union (7 East 7th Street, […]
By John Mack Freeman One of the best ways to track a lot of information is to make a visual out of it. That way, trends that seem hard to see on paper easily become visible, and the ideas contained within the information become much easier to share. And as a data junkie myself, the […]
Four artists from Guatemala, Mexico, and Cuba are featured in a South Florida exhibition, “In His Own Likeness,” that presents an examination of gender, power, and divinity through a variety of media. Guatemalan artist Eny Roland’s video is an homage to an Andy Warhol film from the 1960s. The exhibition at the Richard Shack Gallery, […]
One of the prestigious organizations for lesbian literature, the Golden Crown Literary Society (GCLS), will hold its annual conference in Portland (OR) on July 9-13, 2014 at the Red Lion Hotel on the River at Janzten Beach. Both educational and social for readers and writers, the meeting also offers aspiring authors the chance to pitch […]
When apparel retailer Banana Republic decided to use model couples from real life, the company included interior designers Nate Berkus and his fiancé, Jeremiah Brent. The photos of them rolling on the grass, cuddling, and posing with other models will appear in magazines including InStyle and Rolling Stone. The ad agency said that its goal was […]