Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
A newly released Hungarian children’s book, A Fairy Tale for Everyone (Meseorszag mindenkie), has now also become a symbol of the fight for LGBTQ rights in the country. The book includes 17 updated fairy tales that include more diverse, inclusive and LGBTQ characters and the “aim was to make children’s literature more diverse in Hungary […]
Mark Gevisser’s new book The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer Frontiers explores the lives of LGBTQ people in nine different countries and chronicles “a new human rights frontier that has come to define, divide and describe the world in a whole new way, a new human rights frontier that is being staked over […]
LGBTQ activists have been rallying in Poland during the past few weeks in what some have called the “Polish Stonewall”. https://time.com/5878424/poland-lgbt-protests-police-brutality/ https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/889eyg/the-polish-stonewall-is-happening-as-we-speak
Sarah Hegazi fled to Canada after being detained and tortured for carrying a rainbow flag at a concert in Cairo https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypt-lgbtq-activist-sarah-hegazi-suicide-trauma
Some of the demonstrators, who wore rainbow face masks, brought their children. They orchestrated a peaceful sit-in outside the office that started April 27. https://www.ebar.com/news/news//291830/kenya_lgbt_refugee_protest_ends_with_tear_gas_and_batons
A Tunisian man got his marriage recognized momentarily in the country that punishes homosexuality with 3 years in prison. https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2020/04/tunisias-first-sex-marriage-denounced-administrative-error/
In an Instagram Live video several weeks ago, Talouni taught her followers how to download apps like Planet Romeo, Hornet, and Grindr to find gay men who live in their area. She showed people how to search for the apps online, install them, and create fake profiles to out gay and bi men. https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2020/04/trans-influencer-outing-gay-men-morocco-horrific-fallout-swift/
Switzerland has voted strongly in favor of banning discrimination against gay men, lesbians and bisexual people. Opponents said a new law could stifle free speech. https://www.dw.com/en/switzerland-votes-to-ban-homophobic-discrimination/a-52309821
At its annual conference in Rochester, the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) named its National Translation Award winners for 2019, as the United States market’s “only national award for translated fiction, poetry, and literary nonfiction that includes a rigorous examination of both the source text and its relation to the finished English work.” Translater Emmerich […]
Prabal is an empowerment program for parents of LGBT children that focuses on gender, sexuality and understanding physical and mental health. It is intended for open-minded parents who can, in turn, educate other parents and become valuable queer allies https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/family-relationships/article/3024706/indian-lgbt-workshop-helps-queer-people-bring