Target’s content flagging system misses its target
When Cáel Keegan–author of a book about the transgender writer/director siblings, Lana and Lilly Wachowski–came upon the retail page for his book on Target.com, he noticed that a core concept was… Read more »
The creator of Will and Grace is donating Marlon Bundo books to every grammar school in Indiana
Over the past few weeks, we’ve written quite a bit about Marlon Bundo, Mike Pence’s pet bunny and the star of two recent picture books — one by the Pence family,… Read more »
In Iowa, homophobes are railing against their library’s LGBTQ books
Not great news out of Iowa: as we wrote this weekend, local homophobes have circulated a petition to separate LGBTQ books in the public libraries of Orange City, receiving more than 300… Read more »
The Troll Hole, a Brooklyn zine and sex shop, is ending its run
We often read in the book trade news about feminist bookstores, LGBTQ bookstores, and ongoing efforts to bring visibility to female writers in stores as well as hearts and minds. But, of course, these… Read more »
School board votes to allow your kindergartner to read books about transgender people
Today in uplifting news that suggests the world may be getting better after all: the Sacramento Bee’s Diana Lambert reports that, following a heated debate, the school board at Rocklin Academy Gateway School outside Sacramento has unanymously voted to… Read more »
Chinese activist sues Ministry of Education over homophobic textbooks
The exhausting news of minorities demanding that their government-sanctioned textbooks acknowledge their humanity continues. We’re no stranger to this in the United States. And now, in China, an LGBTQ activist is suing… Read more »
Jordan-based LGBTQ webzine faces lawsuits and death threats
Lawsuits and death threats have been volleyed at Jordan-based LGBQT webzine My.Kali, which has just released its first Arabic-language issue in the May/June 2016 edition. My.Kali went live in 2007 and… Read more »
As in Mississippi, boycotts in North Carolina following anti-LGBTQ law
Following up on yesterday’s post about Mississippi’s House Bill 1523, there’s also been upheaval in North Carolina, where House Bill 2—aka the “bathroom law,” which similarly limits civil liberties for… Read more »
95 Mississippi writers protest the state’s new anti-LGBTQ law
Earlier this week, 95 writers signed a petition against Mississippi House Bill 1523, “An act to create the ‘Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act’; to provide certain protections… Read more »
As North Carolina’s controversial HB2 legislation goes into effect, booksellers and other small businesses are already coping with the fallout
Several weeks ago, the North Carolina state legislature held an emergency session in order to strike down a Charlotte ordinance intended to allow transgender individuals to use the public restroom of their… Read more »