Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
The British Library has released over one million images from digitized books from 1600-1900 onto Flickr Commons for anyone to use, mix, and repurpose. Maps, comical satire, decorative letters, landscapes, and other illustrations are now in the public domain thanks to a gift from Microsoft. The featured image comes from Historia de las Indias de […]
For the first time, Blake Little’s Photographs from the Gay Rodeo can be seen at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art (Indianapolis) starting on February 1, 2014. These 41 black-and-white images of gay and lesbians on the gay rodeo circuit date back to 1988. Curator Johanna Blume said, “This exhibit also explores […]
Congratulations to GLBTRT member Wick Thomas, a Kansas City librarian and youth activist. Tony’s Kansas City editorial board selected Thomas as one of the top 13 most influential Kansas City 20-somethings for 2013. Each one of these 13 choices “define what it means to be a ‘rising star’ in Kansas City.” Earlier this year, Thomas […]
At its November conference call, the GLBTRT Executive Board approved an Ad hoc committee to plan and manage a GLBTRT Pre-Conference in San Francisco. Because much of this work needs to be done before August 2014, this year’s program committee does not have the time or resources to add a pre-conference to their work. I am […]
Last spring 32-year-old Lucy Meadows of Accrington (England) committed suicide after the press hounded her for the supposed “devastating effect” that she would wreak on her students by transitioning genders. Seven-year-old Daisy Moreton wrote this poem that was read at a march for Lucy Meadows: Makes you happy in high spirits smiles said kind things […]
Future GLBT News will also publish profiles of GLBTRT members. If you would like to write a profile for this space, please contact the editor. Advocate has highlighted 25 LGBT movers and shakers who are over 65, yet “continue to inspire us and haven’t allowed the age formally known as retirement to sideline them in […]
Earlier this year, a San Francisco-based group called HACKmarriage put stickers on books in libraries and bookstores that changed the definitions of marriage from being a union of a man and a woman to being a union of ‟two people.” But activists aren’t the only people changing dictionaries. Several wordsmith are reevaluating their current definitions. […]
Research from the UCLA Williams Institute through surveys, polls, and wage data indicates that employment discrimination against LGBT people is persistent and pervasive. In addition, enforcement of anti-discrimination protections is not overly burdensome, and businesses general support these policies. Further research shows that a majority of people in every Congressional district supports laws protecting against […]
Edie Windsor, plaintiff in the U.S. Supreme Court case that overturned DOMA, came in third this year for Time’s “person of the year,” following Pope Francis and Edward Snowden. She was also a finalist in the public online poll. Windsor said: “I am honored that Time chose me as one of the number 3 individuals […]
The AFL-CIO, the country’s largest labor federation, amended its constitution in September, banning discrimination based on gender identity or gender expression. The constitution now states: “To encourage all workers without regard to race, creed, color, sex, national origin, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression to share equally in the full benefits of […]