Profiles of eight LGBTQ candidates to watch in 2020 election primaries. https://www.them.us/story/lgbtq-2020-primary-races
Eight LGBTQ candidates to watch in 2020
Year: 2020
Doctors concerned over new rule that could exclude transgender patients
Doctors are concerned about a new final rule that Health and Human Services has introduced to be implemented mid-August that excludes specific protections for transgender people.�� https://abcnews.go.com/Health/doctors-concerned-complex-legal-landscape-transgender-patients-analysis/story?id=72148509
Novel explores growing up queer in Poland
Author Tomasz Jedrowski’s debut novel Swimming In the Dark is a portrait of growing up LGBTQ in Poland. https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/y3znb7/swimming-in-the-dark-by-tomasz-jedrowski-explores-what-it-means-to-be-queer-in-poland
Pennsylvania health secretary faces transphobic slurs
The Pennsylvania health secretary, Dr. Rachel Levine continues to face transphobic slurs. https://www.abc27.com/news/local/harrisburg/transphobic-slurs-continuously-fired-at-pennsylvania-health-secretary/
“Stuck Rubber Baby” is reissued for its 25th anniversary
First Second Books has published a 25th anniversary edition of the late Howard Cruse’s classic graphic novel, Stuck Rubber Baby. Alison Bechdel has written an introduction for this edition: https://slate.com/culture/2020/07/alison-bechdel-howard-cruse-stuck-rubber-baby.html
“The Deviant’s War”: New book explores early LGBTQ rights movement
Eric Cervini’s new book, The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America (which recently became the first LGBTQ history book to appear on the New York Times bestseller list in over two decades), explores the early LGBTQ rights movement focusing on Frank Kameny’s activism while tracing its ties and debts to other […]
LGBTQ zines telling stories
Recent piece focusing on some LGBTQ zines and their creators: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/in-zines-lgbtq-creators-find-a-place-to-tell-their-own-stories
Art museum exhibit examines the relationship between James Baldwin and Beauford Delaney
“Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin: Through the Unusual Door”, an exhibit at the Knoxville (TN) Museum of Art explores the 38 year relationship between artist Beauford Delaney and author James Baldwin, a friendship that “shaped one another’s creative output and worldview”, and the exhibit tells their story while exploring the “nature of the racial and […]
“Mapping the Gay Guides” digital project
A new project from California State Fullerton is mapping historic LGBTQ bars, cafes, bookstores and other queer spaces utilizing the Bob Damron’s Address Books of the sixties and seventies. https://www.ebar.com/bartab/nightlife//294347 https://www.mappingthegayguides.org/
2020 Stonewall Book Awards Celebration
Along with other ALA book awards, the 2020 Stonewall Book Awards were presented virtually this past weekend and can be seen here: