Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
Oasis, a club in San Francisco famous for drag performances and parodies of television shows, came up with a plan to deliver meals and a drag show during the COVID pandemic. In addition to adding a YouTube channel and a once a week sound stage performance, D’Arcy Drollinger, the club’s owner, has added “Meals on […]
South African track champion Caster Semenya lost her final appeal to defend her title at next summer’s Tokyo Olympics. According to the New York Times, Semenya, who has elevated testosterone levels due to a rare genetic condition, will “continue to fight for the human rights of all female athletes ‘until we can all run free the […]
The film which documents the battle of LGBTQ activists that led to the APA removing homosexuality as a mental illness from the DSM in 1973 will be screening at festivals this fall, have screening opportunities through educational and other organizations, and will eventually air on PBS. https://www.queerty.com/doctors-considered-homosexuality-illness-cured-celebrates-heroes-proved-otherwise-20200823 https://thequeerreview.com/2020/09/02/outfest-2020-film-review-cured/ https://deadline.com/video/cured-trailer-outfest-documentary-lgbtq-patrick-sammon-bennett-singer/ The website for the film has […]
Dictionary.com announced additions of many LGBTQ words and also will replace “homosexuality”, using instead “gay”, “gay man”, “gay woman” and “gay sexual orientation”. https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2020/09/dictionary-com-just-added-lot-lgbtq-words-will-use-homosexuality-less/ https://www.out.com/books/2020/9/03/dictionary-replaces-homosexual-largest-update-ever A press release from Dictionary.com explained the updates, called their biggest ever, with changes in words relating to race, sexual orientation, climate and internet culture.
Award winning writer and professor Randall Kenan has died at the age of 57. Kenan explored Black gay life in the South with story collections (Let the Dead Bury Their Dead) and a novel (A Visitation of Spirits) and also edited a collection of James Baldwin non-fiction (The Cross of Redemption). His most recent collection […]
A new Andy Warhol retrospective at the Tate Modern in London explores themes of gender, sexuality and race in his work and his life. https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/warhol-exhibit-explores-roles-gender-sexuality-his-life-art-n1236516 The exhibit can be explored virtually through this tour: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/andy-warhol/exhibition-guide Image from Tate Modern
As we celebrate the centennial of women’s suffrage and the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, there are several pieces examining and honoring queer suffragists and their place in the movement: https://www.them.us/story/queer-suffragist-history https://www.womensvote100.org/the-suff-buffs-blog/2020/6/9/the-very-queer-history-of-the-suffrage-movement
The University of Arizona Health Science Center’s Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion has issued an update about the impact of COVID on the LGBTQ+ community. The update includes tips, precautions and resources to help us continue to weather this pandemic. Read the full resource here: https://www.soazseniorpride.org/nov2017wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/COVID-LGBTQ-resources.pdf
A proposed new rule by the Department of Health and Human Services that would have rolled back protection of transgender patients was halted by a judge this week until it can be heard by a court. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-rule-transgender-health-blocked-11th-hour-n1237044
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