Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
Ellen DeGeneres may be back on NBC on another lesbian comedy series if NBC follows up with a proposed pilot. The lesbian writer of 2 Broke Girls, Liz Feldman, will write the script and co-produce the show with DeGeneres and Jeff Kleeman. One Big Happy will follow a pregnant lesbian and her best friend, a […]
Two state universities have assigned LGBT books to incoming students, and South Carolina lawmakers have proposed cutting $69,000 in funding to the University of South Carolina Upstate and the College of Charleston. Fun Home by Alison Bechdel lost Charleston $52,000 while Out Loud: The Best of Rainbow Radio, a collection of stories from a South […]
Move over, It Gets Better: you’ve got company. #ComingOutMatters, a new viral social media campaign dedicated to empowering LGBT community, encourages us to share our experiences through YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter. E!’s star Jonny Drubel is celebrity ambassador for Students Moving America in the campaign by using the hashtag #ComingOutMatters. Posts are streamlined into the campaign’s […]
The first trailer for filmmaker Patrik-Ian Polk’s screen adaptation of the novel Blackbird is available on Lambda Literary. Adapted from Larry Duplechan’s novel, the feature film tells of 17-year-old Randy Rousseau, a Christian high school student struggling with his sexuality and family in Mississippi. Check out the trailer below. [vimeo http://vimeo.com/86641697]
Archie Comics first gay character Kevin Keller made a huge splash when he debuted in 2010. Since then, he has become one of the most visible and crowd-pleasing of the comic’s gang. Now, he’s going one step further by becoming a superhero. In line with Archie Comics long-standing tradition of turning its characters into superheroes, […]
In response to the highly acclaimed and incredibly popular original programming from Netflix, Amazon has launched a series of pilots through their Prime service that give viewers the chance to vote on which show they would like to see more of. If a show gets enough support, it gets green lighted for a full season […]
Just because the Winter Olympics have closed for another four years doesn’t mean that everyone has forgotten about Russia. Indeed, Russia’s anti-gay laws and harassment has become the focus of the Tumblr account Pride Propaganda. The website photoshops classic Russian propaganda posters into full-on pride images by substituting all flags for rainbow flags. The project […]
When photographer Kyle Cassidy decided to find out whether his stereotype of a librarian was right, he discovered a diversity of people—starting with GLBTRT Executive Board member Ingrid Abrams who was the lead photo in a Slate article about Cassidy’s experiences at the 2014 ALA Midwinter meeting. The librarian from Brooklyn Public Library said, “We’re […]
Both the 2014 Stonewall youth award winner and GLBTRT member Kyle Lukoff are cited in an article about Susan Kuklin’s new book, Beyond Magenta, profiling six transgender young adults and their experiences in grappling with identity as it relates to sexuality and gender. Although more books about the transgender experience are being published, Lukoff lamented […]
The comic strip Dilbert by Scott Adams recently took a stand for gay rights, specifically in response to the anti-gay legislation that passed in India. On February 7 and February 8, Adams created strips that made the long running character Asok gay while commenting on the situation. In response to the all-to-expected firestorm, Adams posted a preliminary […]