Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
As 2020 comes to a close here are some round-ups of some of the most notable LGBTQ books published this year: https://www.autostraddle.com/67-of-the-best-queer-books-of-2020/ https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/best-lgbtq-books-gift-n1250870
Deb Price, who was the nation’s first syndicated lesbian columnist, dies in Hong Kong, where she lived with her wife, Joyce Murdoch. Deb Price was 62. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/10/business/media/deb-price-dead.html https://www.advocate.com/media/2020/11/28/deb-price-pioneering-columnist-lgbtq-issues-dead-62
The industry’s first openly gay wrestler, Pat Patterson, died this past week at the age of 79. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pat-patterson-first-openly-gay-pro-wrestling-star-dies-79-n1249701
Actor Elliot Page, who received an Oscar nomination for his performance in the 2007 film Juno, announced this past Tuesday that he is transgender. https://www.npr.org/2020/12/01/940793529/oscar-nominee-elliot-page-announces-he-is-transgender
Oprah magazine’s curated list of 32 LGBTQ books coming to bookshelves next year. https://www.oprahmag.com/entertainment/books/g33510335/best-lgbtq-books-2021/
The ONE Archives Foundation is launching a new exhibit, It’s Not Over: Posters and Graphics from Early AIDS Activism, to mark World AIDS Day. The exhibit features posters, flyers and other ephemera from the 1980’s and 1990’s curated from the ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. According to Umi Hsu, a co-curator of the exhibit, […]
This year the AIDS Memorial Quilt is presenting a virtual exhibition to mark World AIDS Day, featuring thousands of panels from all fifty states. The exhibition is available to see now and will run through March 31. This year marks forty years since the first AIDS cases were reported in the United States. The Memorial […]
Jan Morris, celebrated writer and transgender pioneer has died at the age of 94. Morris was revered for her journalism, histories, travel writings and her groundbreaking 1974 transition memoir, Conundrum. She herself rejected the term “travel writer” saying her books were “about place, which [is] nothing to do with movement” and in writing about her […]
Douglas Stuart’s debut novel Shuggie Bain, about a queer boy growing up in 1980’s Glasgow, Scotland, won the Booker Prize last week. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-54976523 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/19/douglas-stuart-wins-booker-prize-for-debut-shuggie-bain Recently Stuart talked to NPR and to Vulture: https://www.npr.org/2020/11/14/934548946/shuggie-bain-will-lift-you-up-and-tear-you-up https://www.vulture.com/2020/11/shuggie-bain-douglas-stuart.html
Apple has added a Transgender Pride flag emoji as well as the trans symbol to its latest update that also includes several other more inclusive images. https://www.them.us/story/trans-pride-flag-emoji https://www.out.com/tech/2020/11/06/apple-finally-has-trans-flag-and-trans-symbol-emojis