Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
By Peter Coyl Texas has been in the news lately, and not for something that makes me proud. Recently a mother in Hood County was upset that her small child picked up a copy of “This Day in June” by Gayle Pitman off the display rack at the Library. She was very concerned that this […]
By John Mack Freeman A recent effort to have two LGBT-themed picture books removed from the Hood County Library has been defeated. Dozens of people challenged the books This Day in June and My Princess Boy. More than 40 people spoke in the public comment section of the meeting expressing opinions ranging from keeping the […]
By John Mack Freeman After the Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision made same-sex marriage the law of the land, county clerks in several conservative districts have refused to acknowledge the right of same-sex couples to get married. Leaning on arguments that their religious freedom is being violated by having to serve same-sex couples equally, clerks in Texas, Kentucky, […]